Illustrations from the Wellcome Library: Vesalius's method of articulating the skeleton and a drawing in the collection of the Wellcome Library

Medical History

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 97-110

  Kornell, Monique ^a  

^a Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine   (United Kingdom)

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ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BONE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; ITALY; LIBRARY; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANATOMY; BONE AND BONES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HUMANS; ITALY; LIBRARIES, MEDICAL; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION;

EID: 0033649094     PISSN: 00257273     EISSN: 20488343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025727300066096     Document Type: Article

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