Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Initial dissection of the pregnant female abdomen, showing the skin peeled away to reveal the swollen uterus. Copperplate engraving by F.S. Ravenet after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.
Initial dissection of the pregnant female abdomen, showing the skin peeled away to reveal the swollen uterus. Copperplate engraving by F.S. Ravenet after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.
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Initial dissection of the pregnant female abdomen, showing the skin peeled away to reveal the swollen uterus. Copperplate engraving by F.S. Ravenet after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.

Jan van Rymsdyk · 1851

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: I.V. Rymsdyk delin. ; F.S. Ravenet sculp. ; Decem priores tabulae mulierem ... et viscera inde abdominalia clarius contemplanda objicerentur. Bears number: Tab. I.

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