Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10365
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    View of the chest cavity

    Date
    1816
    Creator
    Walwert, Engraver
    After
    Hesselbach, Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X179/1
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 255mm
    width (print): 180mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Content object
    Description
    Illustration of the open chest cavity; visible are the lymph glands, trachea, oesophagus, jugular veins, the heart, the pulmonary artery and smaller details such as nerves systems.

    Plate 5 from De organis, quibus aves spiritum ducunt; dissertatio inauguralis zootomica-medica, quam... submittit... by Lehmannus Fuld (Wurzburg, Francisci Ernesti Nitribits, 1816). Inscribed: ‘Tab V, Hesselbach pinxit. Walwert Sculpsit.’
    Associated place
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          > Germany
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