Max Brödel, of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School, was the founder of modern medical illustration. A German by birth, a Hopkins professor lured him as a young man in 1894 to that new hospital and medical school in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.; by the early twentieth century, he was the first professor of art as applied to medicine in the first department of that specialty in the world, created because Dr. William J. Mayo of the new Mayo Clinic was tempting him with a fat job, and Hopkins wanted to keep him. The donor of the money used to create the new department was Henry Walters (interestingly, medical courses he took at Harvard made him sick), a wealthy Baltimorean, whose eponymous Baltimore gallery showed a selection of Brödel's work in April 1997.