Vintage medical art

Bourgery, Jean Baptiste Marc; Jacob, Nicolas Henri [Hrsg.]: Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme: comprenant la médicine opératoire (Band 6, Atlas); Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1367 This is the first installment of a chronology of the anatomical representation of the heart, along with a few metaphorical images tossed in. No commentary yet--just a quick post. All images are either from...

I just discovered this wonderful anatomical chart (see above) from volume one of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, published in 1728. A beautiful, hi-res version of the image is available in the Wikipedia commons; I highly encourage you to visit the original (here) which is well worth a long, involved perusing, but is, sadly, too large to include here. To encourage you to visit the original, I have selected out some of my favorite details above. You can also check out the entire digitized book…

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Vintage Medical Encyclopedia Dictionary Pages with Anatomy Illustrations - Oddity Decor or Scrapbooking Ephemera - Perfect for DIY projects such as dictionary prints, gallery wall collages, scrapbooking or junk journals - A random assortment of pages will be chosen according to the variation selected at checkout PAGE SIZE: 6.75" x 4.75" All pages are sourced from a pre-owned vintage 1950s medical dictionary. At Haunted Attic Resale, sustainability is very important to us! Each item in our…

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