"Map 11 The Two Ladies (Leiden, Netherlands, circa 1790)
The Two Ladies is a direct reaction to the vision of medicine put forward by the Encyclopedists, particularly in d’Alambert’s treatise on the primacy of sensory knowledge and experimentation, the Discours préliminaire. The two female figures are a not-even-thinly veiled insult directed at Diderot & d'Alembert (it was a time of rampant misogyny and Dutch humor remains to this day, as they say, no laughing matter). The image is not a map but rather a chart of sorts, with texts of Galen’s prescribed treatments overlaid on the corresponding afflicted body parts. The Margrave brought a copy of this print with him to Kaiserslautern in 1933, but it is not known if Galen’s typology of human temperament played any part in von Willebrand’s course of treatment."
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