The muscles of the arm and palm of the hand and geometrical diagrams of the tendons and fibres of different muscles. Engraving after G. de Lairesse, 1739.

  • Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711.
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1739]
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27752i
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The letters "R R R" identify veins and nerves of the arm. An example of the occasional surgical nature of Cowper's commentary on Bidloo's plates is the advice that in amputation, arteries can be compressed by finger pressure, rather than with a ligature or compress, so that they may be more easily sutured

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[Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] : Apud Johannem Arnoldum Langerak, 1739]

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1 print : engraving ; platemark 47 x 33.2 cm

Lettering

Figures geometriques de la disposition ; fig. 8 les muscles exterieurs du bras, du coudes & de la paume. ; Tab. 64 Manuscript notations in brown ink in French on recto and verso Bears plate number: T. 64

References note

L. Choulant, History and bibliography of anatomic illustration, tr. and ed. by M. Frank, Chicago 1920, revd ed. 1945, pp. 250-253
K. B. Roberts and J. D. W. Tomlinson, The fabric of the body. European traditions of anatomical illustration, Oxford 1992, pp. 309-313; 412-415
F. Beekman, "Bidloo and Cowper, anatomists," Annals of Medical History, n.s., 7, 1935, pp. 113-129
P. Dumaître, La curieuse destinée des planches anatomiques de Gérard de Lairesse, Amsterdam 1982

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Wellcome Collection 27752i

Reproduction note

The plate originally appeared in Govard Bidloo's Anatomia humani corporis (Amsterdam 1685), one of one hundred and five plates after drawings by G. de Lairesse which survive in the collection of the Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médecine in Paris. Bidloo's Anatomia appeared in a Dutch translation in 1690 after which Bidloo's publishers sold the remaining pulls of the plates to the Oxford publishers (Smith and Walford) of William Cowper's Anatomy of humane bodies (Oxford 1698), in which Bidloo's plates plus an appendix of nine new plates appear. Cowper added a new text and extra lettering, by his reckoning "above 700 references", to the plates. This new lettering was applied in red ink. Cowper's Anatomy of humane bodies was successful enough to appear in two further editions: one in English (Leiden 1737) and another in Latin (Leiden 1739). In these editions, Cowper's added letters are in black ink

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