The monarch and the master: Peter the Great and Frederik Ruysch

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 602-606

  Mirilas, Petros ^a   Lainas, Panagiotis ^b   Panutsopulos, Dimitrios ^c   Skandalakis, Panagiotis N ^a   Skandalakis, John E ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ART; BODY COMPOSITION; CADAVER; CIVILIZATION; DISSECTION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIFESTYLE; LITERATURE; MEDICINE; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRAVEL;

ANATOMY; FAMOUS PERSONS; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICINE IN ART; NETHERLANDS; PORTRAITS; RUSSIA;

EID: 33745235831     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.141.6.602     Document Type: Review

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