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Concept

Stomach

Images

  • Viscera, heart, brain and blood vessels: six figures, including two views of a dissected torso. Line engraving by Heath, after Walker, 1806.
  • Anatomy, medicine and botany; top to bottom, arteries of the stomach, sternum, tarantula, scorpion; bottom right, sassafras. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • A torso, dissected to reveal the liver, stomach and intestines. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543, after A. Vesalius.
  • A disgruntled portly man standing next to a town water pump holding a ladle and rubbing his stomach as if in pain. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1831.
  • A grossly obese man supporting his stomach in a wheelbarrow, a young fop looks on. Etching by S. Ireland, 178-, after J.H. Mortimer.
All images (15)

Catalogue

    • Books
    • Online

    Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de ventris in reliquum corpus potestate; / quam,... eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Henricus Duncan,... iv Id. Julii, hora locoque solitis.

    Duncan, W. H. (William Henry), 1805-1863. | Date: 1829
    • Books

    Chirurgia stomacului / [de] Ion Turai [şi] Emil Papahagi.

    Turai, I. (Ion) | Date: 1963
    • Books

    L'oesophago-jejuno-gastrostomose" de Roux (1906) / S. Ostini.

    Ostini, Suzanne. | Date: 1992
    • Books

    Istori︠︡ia razviti︠︡ia khirurgii zheludka v Rossii v XIX-XX vv. / D.A. Balalykin.

    Balalykin, D. A. (Dmitriĭ Alekseevich), 1970- | Date: 2005
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Faecal vomiting and anti-peristalsis

    | Date: 1904-1951 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.114
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
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