The muscles of the human body seen from the back and the salivary glands of a dog. Engraving, 1686.
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- [1686]
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- 32166i
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At the top left is the head of a dog in profile, with a probe indicating the site of the salival ducts at the orbit of the eye, reported by Anton Nuck. The salvial gland "A" with the eye is shown in figure 3. At the above right, figure 4, is the salival gland on its own and at the lower left, figure 5, is the artery and salival duct of the parotid gland of a dog. As a method of representation, selected muscles on figure 1 of the human body, which is a deeper dissection than that seen in catalogue no. 32152, have been raised or suspended from their attachments. The right gluteus minor ("C") is raised and may be compared to the same muscle on the left, labelled "B", in situ. The extensor carpi radialis ("R") is suspended from the right arm
Publication/Creation
[Amsterdam] : [J. ten Hoorn], [1686]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; image 14.7 x 8.4 cm
Lettering
Bears plate number: Tab. XLVII; page number
Reference
Wellcome Collection 32166i
Reproduction note
The forty-seventh of fifty-one plates first published in Steven Blankaart's De nieuw hervormde anatomie ofte ontleding des menschen lichaams, Amsterdam 1686, with a Latin edition the following year. The plates are made up of uncredited reduced copies of previously published illustrations, several to a page. In the notes to this plate in James Drake's Anthropologia nova (London 1707, 2 vols), where the Blankaart plates were published in an appendix to the first volume, the figures are described as after those published by Thomas Bartholin and Anton Nuck
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