I've listened to a couple of his other vegetable creations and the broccoli definitely has the best sound -- but they're all amazing. The great thing about it is that it really is musical.
Very interesting point about the time line. The fingers and various other features are also mentioned in the BMJ article above. And I'm sure, as I pointed out above, that no one thinks the painter had a REAL ANGEL sit for him.
There was a tradition of naming diseases and other medical conditions after the person who first described them in the medical literature. At present, we still say Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Crohn's Disease, Asperger's Syndrome, etc., as Sid points out, although Down's has gone out of favor. I don't think anyone ever thought the diseases "belonged" to the person who they were named after. That's a linguistic argument that makes no sense to me so I see it as Sid does, changing fads and fashions. Something that sounds fine in one era sounds horrible to another.
I think the response to the 1968 comment was a side issue. They were mainly interested in showing that the distinct constellation of physical features was recognized at the time.
Different communities interpreted their behavior and appearance in different ways. One town might decide that a "different" child was demonically possessed, where another just down the road would decide that such a child was saintly or angelic. Most ordinary people rarely traveled more than a couple of miles outside their own towns, and most of them didn't read or have access to information sources which could explain these things to them, so when an anomaly appeared they ended up interpreting it in a good way or a bad way depending on the makeup of the community, etc.
Citizen Politician, this quote from the article explains the reason behind the "modern disease" comment: Given the distinctive phenotype and prevalence of Down syndrome in the modern era, a number of authors have sought historical evidence of individuals who lived before its initial recognition, particularly in Renaissance and earlier art. Interchanges among various authors were published in the Lancet in 1968. Mirkinson [[1968]] hypothesized that Down syndrome was a modern disease, given its apparent rarity in art, and challenged others to find historical depictions of the disorder as evidence against.
Angie, I think the fish were just cross bred.
Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Crohn's Disease, Asperger's Syndrome, etc., as Sid points out, although Down's has gone out of favor. I don't think anyone ever thought the diseases "belonged" to the person who they were named after. That's a linguistic argument that makes no sense to me so I see it as Sid does, changing fads and fashions. Something that sounds fine in one era sounds horrible to another.
Given the distinctive phenotype and prevalence of Down syndrome in the modern era, a number of authors have sought historical evidence of individuals who lived before its initial recognition, particularly in Renaissance and earlier art. Interchanges among various authors were published in the Lancet in 1968. Mirkinson [[1968]] hypothesized that Down syndrome was a modern disease, given its apparent rarity in art, and challenged others to find historical depictions of the disorder as evidence against.