Study of an exposed human colon and small intestine
Date
1720
Creator
Abraham Vater (1684 - 1751, German) , Physician
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Dimensions
height (painting): 358mm
width (painting): 272mm
width (painting): 272mm
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Description
Large study of the human torso with the colon and intestine exposed. From a manuscript copy account “Historia intestini coli transversim secti et a vulnere propendentis per Abraham Vater M.D.” [“History of the small intestine and colon...”] in which the anatomist Abraham Vater of Wittenberg describes in a letter of 1 October 1720 to the Royal Society, the consequences of a wound inflicted upon George Deppe at the Battle of Ramillies in 1706. Deppe subsequently lived with a severe prolapsed colostomy, illustrated here. Not signed.
Royal Society Register Book Original, vol.11 1722-1724, pp.85-87. The image formed the illustrative plate to the printed paper “Historia portionis intestini coli propendentis ex vulnere per 14 annos”, by Abraham Vater, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.31, 1720-1721, pp.89-90.
Royal Society Register Book Original, vol.11 1722-1724, pp.85-87. The image formed the illustrative plate to the printed paper “Historia portionis intestini coli propendentis ex vulnere per 14 annos”, by Abraham Vater, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.31, 1720-1721, pp.89-90.
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