{"id":49,"date":"2017-03-12T14:37:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T14:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/?p=49"},"modified":"2018-04-22T22:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T21:31:46","slug":"the-fountain-of-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/the-fountain-of-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fountain of Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1546.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Commentary<\/h3>\n<p>The Fountain of Youth has the magical property of restoring the health and looks of those who bathe in it. Legend lists a number of such places. While we may not be looking for quite this now, belief in the healing properties of bathing has never disappeared.\u00a0 It is curious that in Cranach&#8217;s painting only women are seeking restoration, entering old on the left, leaving young on the right. Men seem just as youth-seeking, to the level of injecting themselves with <a href=\"http:\/\/historyofnephrology.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/06\/monkey-glands-and-science-of-renal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">monkey glands<\/a> and other such deceptions.<\/p>\n<h3>Further info<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fountain_of_Youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Fountain of Youth (Wikipedia)<\/a> details some of the legends.<\/li>\n<li>Lucas Cranach&#8217;s painting is in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smb.museum\/en\/museums-institutions\/gemaeldegalerie\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gemaldegalerie<\/a>, Berlin. Unfortunately not one of those in the Google collection from the gallery, though it does include one of his many famous versions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/culturalinstitute\/beta\/asset\/adam-and-eve-in-paradise-the-fall\/QgF5Hmcsm3xzww\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam and Eve<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lucascranach.org\/DE_smbGG_593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larger view of the painting in the Cranach archive <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Fountain_of_Youth_(Cranach)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Commentary on the painting (Wikipedia)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The image shown is of a fine reproduction in the extraordinary <a href=\"http:\/\/o-museum.or.jp\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Otsuka Museum of Art<\/a> in the south of Japan: see it on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2ogGTFxo3AQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube (7 min tour)<\/a>. Worth a look.<\/li>\n<li>A detail of this image is used as a header for this website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Contributed by<\/h3>\n<p>Neil Turner<\/p>\n<h3>More like this<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1546. Commentary The Fountain of Youth has the magical property of restoring the health and looks of those who bathe in it. Legend lists a number of such places. While we may not be looking for quite this now, belief in the healing properties of bathing has never disappeared.\u00a0 It is <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/the-fountain-of-youth\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine-of-the-elderly","tag-art"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}