The anatomical instructor, or, An illustration of the modern and most approved methods of preparing and preserving the different parts of the human body, and of quadrupeds, by injection, corrosion, maceration, distension, articulation, modelling, &c : with a variety of copper-plates / by Thomas Pole.

  • Thomas Pole
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
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Credit: The anatomical instructor, or, An illustration of the modern and most approved methods of preparing and preserving the different parts of the human body, and of quadrupeds, by injection, corrosion, maceration, distension, articulation, modelling, &c : with a variety of copper-plates / by Thomas Pole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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