Internal visualisation chart: Various organs, back view

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Internal visualisation chart: Various organs, back view. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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 back view. They include the stomach cavity, the lung, the stomach, the liver, the spleen, the [left] kidney, the mingmen (right kidney considered as 'Portal of Life'), the small and large intestine, etc.

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PICTURE TITLE: Back view of the human viscera. OTHER LETTERING: Stomach cavity; lung; stomach; liver; spleen; kidney; mingmen (right kidney considered as 'Portal of Life'); small intestine; large intestine.

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