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Image number: RS.10385
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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): 457mm
width (print): 279mm
width (print): 279mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Anatomical study of the thorax of the common or harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena, showing the major arteries, blood vessels and ribs.
Plate 3 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. Le tronc est vu par sa face postérieure et le canal rachidian est ouvert dans toute sa longueur” [Arterial plexus of cetaceans. The trunk is seen from its posterior surface and the rachidian channel is open along its entire length]. Inscribed below “A. Chazal del. Mars 1834. Lith. de Benard”.
Gilbert Breschet (1784-1845) French anatomist investigated the rete mirabile in dolphins and porpoises.
Plate 3 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. Le tronc est vu par sa face postérieure et le canal rachidian est ouvert dans toute sa longueur” [Arterial plexus of cetaceans. The trunk is seen from its posterior surface and the rachidian channel is open along its entire length]. Inscribed below “A. Chazal del. Mars 1834. Lith. de Benard”.
Gilbert Breschet (1784-1845) French anatomist investigated the rete mirabile in dolphins and porpoises.
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