Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15182

    Portrait of an old man in a description of a dissection of a 109-year-old man

    Date
    2 February 1723
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p2
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 295mm
    width (page): 185mm
    Subject
    Description
    Treatise about the dissection of a 109-year-old man, with a woodcut on p. 2 of an old man with a pistol, a sword and a skull in front of him. The printed portrait is glued to the page.
    Transcription
    Anatomia senis decrepiti annorum 109 facta
    Tiguri d. 2 Febr. 1723.
    Per illustri societati regiae londinensi humillione oblata à Joh. Jacobo Scheuzero Tigurino Med. Dotc. Mathecos Prof. & Regiae Societatis socio.
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    Description (without image) printed in Joh. Jacobo Scheuchzero, 'Anatomia senis decrepiti annorum 109', Phil. Trans., vol. 32, no. 376 (1723), pp. 313-16.
    Related fellows
    Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672 - 1733, Swiss) , Physician
    Associated place
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