Tractatus is, in fact, a key to the contents. Page numbers in the image highlight where in the book certain experiments are described. For example, page 58 shows a dog with a thermometer on the right to measure the temperature of blood that has passed through its lungs. The image assigned page 20 refers to the experiment of a dog breathing under water with a tube in its trachea. The incongruous drawing at the bottom shows two snails copulating and refers to Swammerdam’s discovery (p.114) that the snail is a hermaphrodite.]]> Jan Swammerdam]]> Books]]> ___]]> X-ray]]> Robert E. Greenspan]]> Books]]> Laurence Heister]]> Books]]> J. P. Maygrier]]> Books]]> Robert E. Greenspan]]> Books]]> ]]> Dorothy Page]]> Books]]> Antoine Schnapper]]> Books]]> Osteographia (1733). Most of the engravings in the volume are quirky. Various animal skeletons are depicted in addition to the human ones. There is no doubt that the engravings are beautifully executed, and the book was large and expensive, with little explanatory text, which suggests that its target was the wealthy ‘general reader’.]]> William Cheselden]]> Books]]> John Hunter]]> Books]]> [Hippocrates]]]> Books]]> ___]]> ___]]> Richard Cork]]> Books]]> digitalis. He thought it looked like a Fingerhut, or thimble, so he latinized it to digitalis. This perennial is often used to control heart rates. Withering wrote: ‘The leaves – If well dried they readily rub down to a beautiful green powder . . . I give to adults, from one to three grains of this powder twice a day.’]]> William Withering]]> Books]]> Dorothy Page]]> Books]]> Sir Charles Hercus, and Sir Gordon Bell]]> Books]]> ]]> Dorothy Page]]> Books]]> Sir Charles Hercus, and Sir Gordon Bell]]> Books]]> Sir Charles Hercus, and Sir Gordon Bell]]> Books]]> ]]> Dorothy Page]]> Books]]> Dorothy Page]]> Books]]> putti (cherubs) and other mythical creatures carrying out the background activities required for dissections, such as acquiring cadavers and preparing skeletons. In this ‘Q’ initial, the putti are dissecting the neck of a pig. This is possibly in reference to a famous demonstration by Galen (129-210) who cut the laryngeal nerve (which controls the vocal cords) of a pig, thereby causing it to no longer squeal. The Fabrica was much concerned with correcting Galen’s anatomical errors.]]> Andreas Vesalius]]> Books]]> latissimus colli) muscle in dissections (see figure XVI). This is because the platysma, found in the neck, is a thin-layered muscle with fibres difficult to distinctly separate from adjoining tissues. There is often variation. Much time would have been taken in dissection and the precise documentation of the platysma’s coursing and regions of insertion. The ideal conditions for dissection were found in cool, well ventilated rooms. Because there were no preservatives in Albinus’s day, the decay of each cadaver was rapid.]]> Bernhard Siegfried Albinus]]> Books]]> Bernhard Siegfried Albinus]]> Books]]> Phil A. Silva]]> Reports]]>