Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10270
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    The anatomy of the neck and back of the head

    Date
    1750
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    After
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X305/16
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 215mm
    width (print): 180mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Content object
    Description
    The image shows the anatomy of the right hand side of the back of the neck and head. The body is that of a fifty year old. Annotations accompany the image (in Latin).

    Plate 2 from Primo Pare Nervorum Medullae Spinalis, quam auctoritate gratiosae facultatis medicae in academia Georgia Augusta by Georgius Thomas Asch (Gottingen, Vandenhoekiana, 1750). Inscribed: ‘Tab II’.
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > Germany
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