Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10269
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    Details of the anatomy of the head and neck

    Date
    1750
    Creator
    Goett, Engraver
    After
    Joel Paul Kaltenhofer (1716 - 1777, German) , Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X305/16
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 205mm
    width (print): 225mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Content object
    Description
    Anatomical illustrations showing interior details of the head and neck.

    Fig.1. Part of the spinal cord in the neck with a portion of the cerebellum.
    Fig.2. a variation of Fig.1- in an infant
    Fig.3. Section of the neck of a child
    Fig.4. Illustration of a fifty year old cadaver; shows the anterior spinal cord nerve on the right hand side.

    More detailed annotations accompany the image (in Latin).

    Plate 1 from Primo Pare Nervorum Medullae Spinalis, quam auctoritate gratiosae facultatis medicae in academia Georgia Augusta by Georgius Thomas Asch (Gottingen, Vandenhoekiana, 1750). Inscribed: ‘Tab I, Kaltenhofer del. et sc Goett.’
    Associated place
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          > Germany
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