Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10359
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Lungs and pulmonary artery
Date
1816
Creator
Walwert, Engraver
After
Hesselbach, Artist
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X179/1
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 237mm
width (print): 180mm
width (print): 180mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Illustration showing a lung with the pulmonary artery and veins on show. The trachea has been divided (dissected).
Annotated:
a. lungs
b. pulmonary artery
c. vein branches
d. vein branches
e. vein branches
f. vein branches
g. bronchi
h. holes in the substance of pulmonary bronchia
i. anterior margin of the lung is open
k. bronchia
Plate 3 from De organis, quibus aves spiritum ducunt; dissertatio inauguralis zootomica-medica, quam... submittit... by Lehmannus Fuld (Wurzburg, Francisci Ernesti Nitribits, 1816). Inscribed: ‘Tab III, Hesselbach pinxit. Walwert Sculpsit.’
Annotated:
a. lungs
b. pulmonary artery
c. vein branches
d. vein branches
e. vein branches
f. vein branches
g. bronchi
h. holes in the substance of pulmonary bronchia
i. anterior margin of the lung is open
k. bronchia
Plate 3 from De organis, quibus aves spiritum ducunt; dissertatio inauguralis zootomica-medica, quam... submittit... by Lehmannus Fuld (Wurzburg, Francisci Ernesti Nitribits, 1816). Inscribed: ‘Tab III, Hesselbach pinxit. Walwert Sculpsit.’
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