Credit: © The Royal Society
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
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Dimensions
height (painting): 254mm
width (painting): 178mm
width (painting): 178mm
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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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