Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Complete Study of Human Anatomy


Complete Study of Human Anatomy, 1831 – 54
Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery, illustrations by Nicolas-Henri Jacob

The authors of this book insisted on depicting their models as idealized and beautiful. In the image above, a fastidious combination of straps and bandages compresses the patient’s facial arteries, and three different angles of an instrument made to exert pressure on the carotid are shown.

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