Dit jaar bestaat de academische geneeskunde in Amsterdam 350 jaar. In elf stadswandelingen wordt de lezer langs medisch-historisch erfgoed geleid, met onderweg een inkijk in de praktijkvoering en opleiding van chirurgijns, artsen en moderne specialisten. In het voetspoor van Blasius verbindt het heden en verleden van de medische zorg en opleiding in Amsterdam in een verrassend alledaags perspectief.

In 1669 liep professor Gerard Blasius met zijn studenten van de collegezaal in de Agnietenkape...

Prometheus was punished by the supreme god Zeus for giving to mankind the Olympic fire with which they learned to think and feel. He was chained to a cliff in the Caucasus, where, to make matters worse, he was visited daily by an eagle who ate part of his liver. At night, however, his liver grew back. We now know that the liver can regenerate, but were the ancient Greeks aware of this quality?

The myth of Prometheus has been a source of inspiration for many visual artists over the centuries....

In the ‘Anatomy lessons’ that were painted for the Surgeons’ Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection are described and discussed.