The trunks of the vena cava, with their branches, engraving by Benard, 1779, after an engraving by M. Vandergucht after W. Cowper, 1702, after a preparation by G. Leoni, c. 1645.

  • Cowper, William, 1666-1709.
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The trunks of the vena cava, with their branches, engraving by Benard, 1779, after an engraving by M. Vandergucht after W. Cowper, 1702, after a preparation by G. Leoni, c. 1645. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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This figure is after a print depicting the preparation of the venous system, extracted from the human body and dried and laid out on a table by the surgeon Giovanni Leoni, Johannes Vesling's assistant in Padua (see Aspin 1995, pl. 1a). This table, along with three others of the arteries and the nerves, were purchased by John Evelyn during his stay in Padua, 1645-1646, where he attend Vesling's lectures on anatomy. The four tables were sent to England and presented to the Royal Society by Evelyn in 1667. They are now in the collection of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, London

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[Geneva] : [Pellet], [1779]

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1 print : engraving ; platemark 23 x 17.7 cm (trimmed)

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Anatomie, tronc de la veine cave ; Benard direx. Bears plate no. : 9

References note

Richard K. Aspin, "John Evelyn's tables of veins and arteries: a rediscovered letter," Medical History, 39, no. 4, October 1995, pp. 493-499

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Wellcome Collection 36237i

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The present print is after Cowper's figure 6
The Evelyn venous and arterial tables were engraved by Michael Vandergucht after drawings by the anatomist William Cowper and used to illustrate Cowper's article in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 280, July and August 1702, pp. 1177-1201, entitled: "An account of divers schemes of arteries and veins, dissected from adult human bodies, and given to the repository of the Royal Society by John Evelyn, Esq; F.R.S. To which are subjoyn'd a description of the extremities of those vessels, and the manner the blood is seen, by the microscope, to pass from the arteries to the veins in quadrupeds when living: with some chyryrgical observations and figures after the life, by William Cowper, F.R.S." On p. 1179 Cowper comments that, "These figures are closely drawn after the original schemes, and I am apt to flatter my self they will be acceptable to the inquisitive."

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