Historical medical illustrations.
Collection — mapcase folder: 1
Identifier: 6394
Scope and content
4 posters consisting of enlarged reproductions of illustrations from historical medical books. Sources include Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica, Lorenz Heister's A general system of surgery, Charles Estienne's De dissectione partium corporis humani, and William Smellie's A sett of anatomical tables, with explanations and an abridgement, of the practice of midwifery.
Dates
- 1991 - 1999
- Undated
Creator
- no primary creator (Person)
- Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564. (Title of work: De humani corporis fabrica..) (Person)
- Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758. (Language of a work: English.. Title of work: Chirurgie..) (Person)
- Estienne, Charles, 1504-approximately 1564. (Title of work: De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres..) (Person)
- Smellie, William, 1697-1763. (Title of work: Set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgement, of the practice of midwifery..) (Person)
Extent
1 mapcase folders. (1 mapcase folders.)
Language of Materials
English
- Description rules
- Gihc
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)