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Formation of the human foetus: five figures, showing the development from embryo at conception, to foetus of four months gestation. Colour engraving by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.
- Dodd, Daniel
- Date:
- June 20th 1794
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- 579913i
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Credit: Formation of the human foetus: five figures, showing the development from embryo at conception, to foetus of four months gestation. Colour engraving by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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Description
"This first visible state of conception, which resembles the lucid appearance of a drop of water, tending to coagulation, is correcly shewn in the first figure of the annexed plate, precisely in the state it was extracted from the uterus of a female, who died on the sixth day after contact with the male, and is now to be seen, preserved in spirits, in Rackstrow's valuable Museum, in Fleet-street, London."--Sibly, op. cit., p. 56
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[London] : Published as the Act directs by E. Sibly, June 20th 1794.
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1 print : engraving, printed in sanguine ; platemark 18.7 x 12.6 cm
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Formation of the human foetus ; Conception ; First month ; Second month ; Third month ; Fourth month ; Dodd del. ; Pass sculp.
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Bears number: Plate I
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Wellcome Library no. 579913i
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