Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation
Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed
Galen
"A Sixth-Finger Nipper."
from Ambroise Paré.
Woodcut portrait of Andreas Vesalius
Ecclesiastical Book Censors and Book Burning
Part of a large, panoramic dome painting in the Ecclesiastical
Library in Eger, Hungary
Vesalius' dissecting tools
Listing of muscles by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus
1747 in his book, "Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani,"
Prostant apud Joannem & Hermannum Verbeek, Leiden
God taking a rib from Adam to create Eve.
From the front of the Cathedral at Orvieto, Italy.
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Arteries
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Veins
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Opus IV: Endocrine, Gastrointestinal,
Genitourinary and Respiratory Systems
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Title page of Vesalius' book, "De humani corporis fabrica libri
septum,"
published in Basel in 1543, by Joannis Oporini.
Considered by many scholars to be the most important medical book
ever published.
Final Page of Tabulated Muscles.
from Albinus, B.S. Historia Musculorum Hominis, Apud Theodorum Haak
& Henricum Mulhovium, 1734.
"The Reward of Cruelty," by Hogarth (1751), depicting an 18th
century Anatomy.
The subject was a criminal fresh from the gibbet.
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