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Odorico Machado de Souza

E A ANATOMIA TOPOGRÁFICA

A importante obra Anatomia Topográfica. Parte Especial. Membro Superior, do professor Odorico Machado de Souza, publicada em 1956, apresenta 39 desenhos de Lilly.

Lilly Ebstein’s illustrations for the book Anatomia Topográfica. Parte Especial. Membro Superior (Topographic Anatomy. Special Part. Upper Limb), by Professor Odorico Machado de Souza, published in 1956, were, most likely, her last major work at the School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (USP) and perhaps the longest of all the works she created in 30 years. One year before the book was published, Lilly retired as illustrator and photomicrographer from the Illustration and Photomicrography Department at the School, on December 17, 1955, thus ending a career that had begun in 1926.

The book has 39 illustrations that can be attributed to Lilly. There are over 32 illustrations by other illustrators (Lucia de Castro Moreira and Gastão Lorenzini), 4 photographs and 17 reproductions of radiographs.

Odorico Machado de Souza was an anatomist and professor at USP’s School of Medicine and a disciple of Alfonso Bovero. His book was part of a project of a series on Topographic Anatomy. Professor Odorico had already published Anatomia Topográfica – Parte Geral (Topographic Anatomy – General Part) in 1951.

Machado de Souza wrote in the book’s introduction “Topographic Anatomy is of an applied character and constitutes a necessary synthesis for the general physician. It should interest, first and foremost, the surgeon providing him the anatomic synthesis of a regional nature pertinent to a given surgical intervention; but should equally provide the physician many essential bases for interpreting semiotics”.

Moreover, according to Machado de Souza, the interest in studying the upper limb “from the medical point of view, is evident by the fact that 50% of dislocations occur in the scapulohumeral joint and over half of all fractures are to an upper limb, entirely understandable since it is an organ of defense. Around one-third of all wounds affect the hand and fingers”.

Lilly Ebstein Lowenstein (1897-1966) viveu entre a ciência e a arte, desenhando e realizando fotografias nos campos da medicina e da zoologia. Em seu trabalho, Lilly conjugava o conhecimento técnico da fotografia e do desenho, o estudo das ciências e um notável talento estético. Nascida na Alemanha, ela estudou na Escola Lette-Verein em Berlim entre 1911 e 1914. Em 1925 imigrou com o marido e dois filhos para São Paulo. Em 1926, tornou-se desenhista e fotomicrógrafa da Seção de Desenho e Fotografia na Faculdade de Medicina (USP, a partir de 1934), da qual seria chefe por trinta anos a partir 1932. Entre 1930 e 1935 Lilly foi colaboradora do Instituto Biológico de Defesa Agrícola e Animal, principalmente da sua Seção de Ornitopatologia. Uma vida com arte dedicada à pesquisa e difusão da ciência.