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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
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    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.
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