Whale barnacle, female reproductive organs
Date
1706
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Unknown, Engraver
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The Royal Society, Publisher
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Description
Three figures from issue 308 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figure 1. Zoological study of a species of whale barnacle, Coronula diadem, referred to here as Pediculus ceti. Illustration to ‘Part of a Letter from Robert Sibbald, Knight, to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Secr, concerning a second volume of his prodromus historæ naturalis scotiæ; with a description of the pediculus Cæti, & c’ by Robert Sibbald in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 25, issue 308 (December 1706).
Figure 2. Anatomical depiction of the renal glands, the uterus and extended membrane of the ovarium, containing a collection of fluid.
Figure 3. The vulva and uterus in puerperal, cut open.
Illustrations to ‘An account of a hydrops ovarii, with a new and exact figure of the glandulæ renales, and of the uterus in a puerpera’ by James Douglas in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 25, issue 308 (December 1706). Original proof of this illustration can be found in MS/131/112.
James Douglas (1675-1742), British physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706.
Figure 1. Zoological study of a species of whale barnacle, Coronula diadem, referred to here as Pediculus ceti. Illustration to ‘Part of a Letter from Robert Sibbald, Knight, to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Secr, concerning a second volume of his prodromus historæ naturalis scotiæ; with a description of the pediculus Cæti, & c’ by Robert Sibbald in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 25, issue 308 (December 1706).
Figure 2. Anatomical depiction of the renal glands, the uterus and extended membrane of the ovarium, containing a collection of fluid.
Figure 3. The vulva and uterus in puerperal, cut open.
Illustrations to ‘An account of a hydrops ovarii, with a new and exact figure of the glandulæ renales, and of the uterus in a puerpera’ by James Douglas in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 25, issue 308 (December 1706). Original proof of this illustration can be found in MS/131/112.
James Douglas (1675-1742), British physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706.
Related fellows
James Douglas (1675 - 1742, British) , Physician, Physician
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