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Image number: RS.10384
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Dissected thorax of a porpoise
Date
1836
Creator
Antoine Toussaint de Chazal (1793 - 1854, French) , Printmaker
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X110/1
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 476mm
width (print): 275mm
width (print): 275mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Anatomical study of the thorax of the common or harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena, showing the major arteries, blood vessels and with the ribs removed.
Plate 2 from Histoire anatomique et physiologique d’un organe de nature vasculaire découvert dans les cétacés..., by M.G. Breschet (Paris, 1836). Headed “Plexus arterial des cétacés” [Arterial plexus of cetaceans]. Inscribed below “A. Chazal del. Mars 1834. Litho. de Benard”.
Gilbert Breschet (1784-1845) French anatomist investigated the rete mirabile in dolphins and porpoises.
Plate 2 from Histoire anatomique et physiologique d’un organe de nature vasculaire découvert dans les cétacés..., by M.G. Breschet (Paris, 1836). Headed “Plexus arterial des cétacés” [Arterial plexus of cetaceans]. Inscribed below “A. Chazal del. Mars 1834. Litho. de Benard”.
Gilbert Breschet (1784-1845) French anatomist investigated the rete mirabile in dolphins and porpoises.
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