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Image number: RS.10386
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Dissected thorax and skull 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): 480mm
width (print): 275mm
width (print): 275mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Anatomical studes of the thorax of the common or harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena (figure 1) with details of the skull (figures 2-3) and the chest wall (figure 4).
Plate 4 figures 1-4 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. Et veine azygos renfermée dans la canal rachidien [Arterial plexus of cetaceans.Azygos vein enclosed in the spinal canal]. 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 4 figures 1-4 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. Et veine azygos renfermée dans la canal rachidien [Arterial plexus of cetaceans.Azygos vein enclosed in the spinal canal]. 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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