Internal visualisation chart: Various organs, front view
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Woodcut, incorporated into a handwritten copy of Yuanmen maijue neizhao tu (Internal Visualisation Charts from the 'Primordial Portal' Secrets of the Pulse), attributed to Hua Tuo, a renowned physician of the third century BCE. This chart shows the internal distribution of various viscera and organs from the front view. They include the larynx, lung heart stomach spleen, small intestine, gall bladder, liver, large intestine and bladder.
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PICTURE TITLE: Front view of the human viscera. OTHER LETTERING: Jiehou (larynx, Adam's apple); lung; heart; stomach; spleen; small intestine; gall bladder; liver; large intestine; bladder.