| Antique Medical Prints - Anatomy, Midwifery, Dissection |
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| Muscles situated at the posterior aspect of the body.Edited by Jones Quain,MD. Drawn by J.Walsh, lithograph by George Childs, printed by Graf and Soret for Taylor and Walton, University of London, 1836. Size 31 x 49.5 cm, condition good. Price £110.00 / $178.00 (plus packing and postage). Click for info |
Hippocrates, 460-377 B.C.was the first to treat anatomy as a science, but it was not until Aristotle, 384-327 B.C.that this was taken seriously. It was he who gave the name aorta to the principle artery.
In the first century the Roman government forbade the dissection of human bodies. In 1415 Mindino, a professor of anatomy in Bologna gave public demonstrations of the results of his dissection. Berenger, Columbus Fallopius, and Eustachius, all added facts to the science. However it was not until 1832 that the practise of dissection was legalised by an Act of Parliament, in order to stop the rifling of graveyards by "body-snatchers" (as described in Charles Dickens's "Tale of Two Cities").
All of this activity has left us with some wonderful anatomical prints - just the thing for your consulting rooms if you are a doctor. Or, if you have a strong stomach, your kitchen.
Selected antique Medical and Anatomical prints currently in stock
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Teeth and Jaw, Copper plate engraving, coloured, from A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, engraved by W.H.Lizars, Edinburgh, circa 1822. 25 x 41cm Large
£75.00 /$122.00
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Teeth and Jaw 2. Copper plate engraving, lightly coloured, from A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, engraved by W.H.Lizars, Edinburgh, circa 1822. 25 x 41cm Large
£70.00 /$114.00
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Albinus Tab XXXII. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus 1697-1770, Professor of Medicine, who became one of the most famous teachers of Anatomy. Copper plate engraving from Explicatio tabularum Anatomicum Bartholomaei Eustachii,circa 1761. 19 x 30 cm
£75.00 /$122.00
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Albinus Tab XXIII. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus 1697-1770, Professor of Medicine, who became one of the most famous teachers of Anatomy. Copper plate engraving from Explicatio tabularum Anatomicum Bartholomaei Eustachii,circa 1761. 19.5 x 30cm /
Price £75.00 / $122.00
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Backbone, Chest, Neck, Feet.Plate XIX. Detailed Anatomical print circa 1900. 22 x 30 cm
£35.00 /$56.00
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Osteology. Cranium. Copper plate engraving showing Cranium of Georgian Female, Turk, Negro, and Caribs. Published as the Act directs by Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807. 21 x 27 cm
£60.00 /$98.00
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Myology Front. Milton, copper plate engraving, published as the Act directs by Longman and Rees 1803. 18 x 26 cm
£54.00 /$88.00
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The Human Body. B.N.A. Terminology. Coloured prints, Showing 5 pictures. I. Heart and Blood Vessels, II. Bony Skeleton, III. Superficial Musculature, IV. Deep Musculature, V. Viscera. Full key explanation, circa 1920. 18 x 25.5 cm
£34.00 /$55.00
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Experiments on the Solidity of Bodies. Copper plate engraving from the Universal Magazine, circa 1760. 10 x 18 cm
£28.00 /$46.00
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Physiotherapy. Heilgymnastik. Showing the use of various apparatus for different exercises, Meyers Konversation Lexicon, 1906. 14 x 23 cm
£28.00 /$46.00
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The Manner of Burying the Dead at HolyWell Mount near London during the dreadful Plague in the reign of Charles II. 1665. Copper plate engraving published by Alexander Hogg circa 1780. 20 x 32 cm
£48.00 /$78.00
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Distribution of Diphtherie, Tuberculosis, Typhus and Cancer in Germany in the year 1900. Coloured map from Meyers konversation Lexicon, 1906. 26 x 21 cm
£25.00 /$40.00
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Musckeln des Menschen- Muscles. Showing muscles, Arteries in red, and Veins in blue, from Meyers Konversation Lexicon, 6th edition 1906. 20.5 x 26 cm
£30.00 /$48.00
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Anatomy XX, Veins, Arteries. Copper plate engraving, showing veins and arteries, engraved by Kirkwood and Sons, circa 1800. 20 x 26.5 cm
£60.00 /$98.00
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Leg including Hip and Knee. Showing Ligaments, and Muscles. The National Encyclopedia, A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, published by William Mackenzie circa 1885. 15 x22 cm
£30.00 /$48.00
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Nerves of the Liver, Gall-bladder, Pancreas and Stomach. William Henry Hall, The New Encyclopedia or Modern Universal Dictionary, Published as the Act directs 1789. 21 x 35.5 cm
£75.00 /$122.00
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Male Organs of Generation, The System of Anatomy. Female Organs of Generation. Copper plate engraving. Drawn by Birnie, engraved by Lodge. Published by C.Cooke 1789. 21x 35 cm
£75.00 / $122.00
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The Development of Man. Showing the development of the embryo in the second, third, fifth, eight, twelve weeks, also the blood circulation just before the birth. Coloured print from Meyers Konversation Lexicon, c1880. 21 x 27 cm
£38.00 /$62.00
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Viscera Plate 2. Milton, Copper plate engraving, published as the Act directs by Longman, Hurst, Rees,Orme and Brown 1814. 26.5 x 20cm
£48.00 /$78.00
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Liver. Copper plare engraving from an Encyclopaedia , published circa 1800. 18.5 x 31 cm
£60.00 / $98.00
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Left parietal bone and more, Plate 43.Edited by Jones Quain M.D., Lithographed by William Fairland, printed by Graf and Soret,for Taylor and Walton, University of London, 1836. 30 x 49.5 cm
£70.00 / $114.00
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Diaphragm. Plate 27. Showing the Sternum, Ribs and the Lumbar part of the Spine. Edited by Jones Quain M.D., Lithographed by William Fairland, printed by Graf and Soret,for Taylor and Walton, University of London, 1836. 31 x 49.5 cm
£78.00 / $126.00
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Chirurgie 30. Copper plate engraving from The Encyclopedia by Diderot circa 1770. 15 x 20.5 cm
£40.00 / $65.00
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Edward Jenner (1749-1823), the discoverer of vaccination. Engraved by J. Brown from the Statue by W.C.Marshall, published by Virtue circa 1860. 16 x 23 cm
£25.00 / $40.00
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One of the Wards of the Hospital at Scutari. W. Simpson, lithograph by E.Walker,published by Colnaghi and Co. April 1856.(Florence Nightingale) 44 x 28.5 cm
£160.00 / $260.00
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