Aneurysm of the axillary artery filled with blood-clot after ligature of the subclavian artery

Anatomy and botany: top left, aorta; top right, chest artery; centre left, ligature of the subclavian artery; centre right, a leech; bottom left, musk deer; bottom right, rhubarb. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.

Surgery of carotid and subclavian arteries: two figures showing incisions in the head and neck, with surgical instruments indicating arteries. Coloured lithograph by G.E. Madeley after A. A. Cane, 1834.

Plate VII, Arteries, veins and muscles of the neck.

Plate 19, Bourgery and Jacob, Iconografia d'anatomia, 1841.

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