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Humphrey Ridley, M.D.

The base of the brain with part of the medulla oblongata, the blood vessels injected with wax, and the cerebellum (Table XII, figs 1-2), after Cowper in Ridley (1695); the foetal heart, the larynx and the viscera (Table XIII), after an etching by G. Vandergucht in Cheselden (1740) Etching by I. Basire, 1743.

The brain, after Haller and Ridley. Engraving by Prevost, 1762.

The anatomy of the brain. Containing its mechanism and physiology; together with some new discoveries and corrections of ancient and modern authors upon that subject to which is annex'd a particular account of animal functions and muscular motion ... / [Humphrey Ridley].

The brain, after Haller and Ridley. Engraving, 18th century.

Observationes quaedam medico-practicae & physiologicae; inter quas ... agitur de asthmate et hydrophobia. Quarum etiam decem ultimis subjiciuntur administationes [sic] ... anatomicae, cum ... de cordis in embryone vasorum structura, & sanguinis juxta eam circuitu dissertatione / [Humphrey Ridley].

The anatomy of the brain : containing its mechanism and physiology : together with some new discoveries and corrections of ancient and modern authors upon that subject : to which is annex'd a particular account of animal functions and muscular motion : the whole illustrated with elegant sculptures after the life by H. Ridley.

The brain, after Haller and Ridley. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

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Observationes quaedam medico-practicae & physiologicae; inter quas ... agitur de asthmate et hydrophobia. Quarum etiam decem ultimis subjiciuntur administationes [sic] ... anatomicae, cum ... de cordis in embryone vasorum structura, & sanguinis juxta eam circuitu dissertatione / [Humphrey Ridley].

The brain, after Haller and Ridley. Engraving by Prevost, 1762.

The brain, after Haller and Ridley. Engraving, 18th century.

The brain, after Haller and Ridley. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.