Reviewing the Medical Books and Journals that constituted Medical understanding a century back.

History of the Book of Medicine

October 10th, 2007 at 4:53 am

The Eye and Its Wonders

in: Chart 3, Eye

Beautiful Plate of the Eye.–The beautiful flesh-colored engraving at the right-hand top corner of this exquisite anatomical plate gives a strikingly natural, life-size representation of the human eye, together with its external appendages, the eyebrows, the eyelids, and the lachrymal or tear glands.

As I write this I have not published pictures of Chart 3, but will have it provided and uploaded shortly.  Let me just say that this engraving or plate is  well, a little under whelming.  Could I call it a beauty?

No.  Is it life sized?  Oddly, not really.  You’ll see for yourself soon, that this medical book doesn’t do this particular diagram justice.

 

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