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    Image number: RS.8659
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    Interior surfaces of the human oesophagus and stomach

    Date
    1817
    Creator
    Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
    Object type
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    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 254mm
    width (painting): 178mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Content object
    Description
    Plate 18 from the paper "Observations on the gastric glands of the human stomach, and the contraction which takes place in that viscus", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.107 (1817), pp.347-352. Three figures of surface textures of the oesophagus and the cardiac portion of the stomach. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details upper right and magnification notes to the right of each figure. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer del." Royal Society stamp verso.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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