Saturday, February 20, 2016

Images in Historical Pediatrics: 

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was one of the great painters of the German Renaissance and helped bring the Italian principles of perspective an classicism into northern Europe. As with all great artists he had a keen eye for human anatomy, and perhaps even neuromuscular pathology. What physical finding does the child in this painting have?


 
Madonna and Child, 1498

 Answer (highlight to see): Erb's Palsy aka "waiter's tip"