M0020322: Illustration of valves in a leg vein: external view, 1585

Previous title, replaced August 2022: Valves in a leg vein, 16th century.

Reproduction of an illustration originally published in Alberti, Salomon: "De valvulis membraneis quorandum vasorum", in Tres orationes, Nuremberg, 1585 and reproduced in Franklin, K. J.: "Valves in Veins: A Historical Survey", Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, vol.21, issue 1, November 1927. Related images: M0020323

September 1985

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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