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Dr. Frank H. Netter (25 April, 1906-17 September 1991) was an artist, physician, and most notably, a leading medical illustrator. He was also a Fellow of The New York Academy of Medicine. April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ...
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Early life, training, and medical career
Frank Henry Netter was born in Manhattan at 53rd Street and Seventh Avenue, and grew up wanting to be an artist. In high school, he obtained a scholarship to study at the National Academy of Design, doing so at night while continuing high school. After further studying at the Art Students League of New York and with private teachers, he began a commercial art career, quickly achieving success and doing work for the Saturday Evening Post and the New York Times. However, his family disapproved of a career as an artist and he agreed to study medicine. After getting a degree at the City College of New York, he completed medical school at New York University and a surgical internship at Bellevue Hospital and attempted to begin practicing medicine. However, as Dr. Netter put it: "This was in 1933-the depths of the Depression-and there was no such thing as medical practice. If a patient ever wandered into your office by mistake, he didn't pay." The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ...
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Early medical art career Having continued doing freelance art during his medical training, including some work for his professors, he fell back on medical art to supplement his income. In particular, pharmaceutical companies began seeking Dr. Netter for illustrations to help sell new products, such as Novocain. Soon after a misunderstanding wherein Dr. Netter asked for $1,500 for a series of 5 pictures and an advertising manager agreed to and paid $1,500 each - $7,500 for the series - Dr. Netter gave up the practice of medicine. In 1936, the CIBA Pharmaceutical Company commissioned a small work from him, a fold-up illustration of a heart to promote the sale of digitalis. This proved hugely popular with physicians and a reprint without the advertising copy was even more popular. Procaine hydrochloride is a local anesthetic used primarily in dentistry. ...
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Career with CIBA Quickly following on the success of the fold-up heart, fold-up versions of other organs were soon produced. Dr. Netter then proposed that a series of pathology illustrations be produced. These illustrations were distributed to physicians as cards in a folder, with advertising for CIBA products on the inside of the folder, and were also popular with physicians. CIBA then collected these illustrations in book form, producing the CIBA Collection of Medical Illustrations, which ultimately comprised 8 volumes (13 books). Beginning in 1948, CIBA also reused illustrations by Dr. Netter in another series of materials to be given to physicians, the Clinical Symphosia series. These were small magazine-like brochures that typically featured an extensive article on a medical condition, commonly with about a dozen of Dr. Netter's illustrations. This series was produced until at least the early 90s. In 1989, Dr. Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy was published. In all, Dr. Netter produced nearly 4,000 illustrations, which have been included in countless publications.
Dr. Netter's legacy The vast bulk of Dr. Netter's illustrations were produced for and owned by CIBA Pharmaceutical Company and its successor, CIBA-Geigy, which has since merged with Sandoz Laboratories to become Novartis. In June 2000, Novartis sold its interest in Dr. Netter's works to MediMedia USA's subsidiary Icon Learning Systems, which in turn has sold the portfolio to Elsevier, which continues to make his work available in various formats. His Atlas of Human Anatomy and other atlases have become a staple of medical education. Sandoz Laboratories was a Swiss pharmaceutical company, best known for inventing LSD in 1938 and later marketing it as a psychiatric drug under the trade name Delysid. ...
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Dr. Netter's work has received numerous accolades
- "Dr. Netter's contribution to the study of human anatomy is epochal. He has advanced our understanding of anatomy more than any other medical illustrator since the 16th century, when Vesalius introduced drawings based on cadaveric dissections." - Dr. Michael DeBakey
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Awards and honors - 1966, Townsend Harris Medal, City College of New York
- 1969, The Harold Swanberg Distinguished Service Award, American Medical Writers Association
- 1973, Distinguished Service Award, National Kidney Foundation
- 1979, Resolution of Commendation, Florida State Legislature
- 1981, Distinguished Service Award, American College of Cardiology
- 1981, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Science, New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry
- 1985, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Science, Georgetown University
- 1986, Life Achievement Award, Society of Illustrators
- 1986, The Solomon A. Berson Medical Alumni Achievement Award, New York University School of Medicine
- 1986, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Science, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
- 1986, Lifetime Achievement Award, Association of Medical Illustrators
- 1986, Dedication of the Netter Library, CIBA-Geigy Corporation
- 1987, Honorary Member, Radiologic Society of North America
- 1988, Honorary Award for Contribution to Knowledge of Musculoskeletal System, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
- 1988, Honorary Fellowship, Medical Artists Association of Great Britain
- 1990, Award of Special Recognition, Association of Medical Illustrators
- 1990, Honorary Member Award, American Association of Clinical Anatomists
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References - Dr. Frank H. Netter, Frank Netter: The Man, The Artist, The Surgeon, Medical Times, January 1981, (condensed reprint from the Saturday Evening Post, 1976)
- various authors, The Five Senses, CIBA-Geigy Corporation, 1992, (memorial portfolio and essays)
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