About This Item
Title
Anatomical diagram of the ear
            Subject
Ear--anatomy & histology
                    Book Illustrations
            Description
Lithograph by T. Sinclair & Son from a drawing by Hermann Faber.
                    Diagram of the auricle (figure 1), temporal bone showing the chamber of the tympanum displayed from within and the malleus and incus as well as the Eustachian tube in position (figure 2), a frontal (vertical transverse) section of the chamber of the tympanum and the bottom of the external auditory meatus (figure 3), the tympanic membrane seen in position at the bottom of the external auditory meatus (figure 4), and the temporal bone so divided as to display the inner wall of the tympanic chamber (figure 5).
                    Title supplied by cataloger.
            Creator
T. Sinclair & Son
                    Faber, Hermann
            Source
Original image in: Allen, Harrison, 1841-1897. A System of Human Anatomy (Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea's Son & Co., 1884). ZAd 2 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
                    Harrison Allen’s A System of Human Anatomy contains lithographs of drawings by Hermann Faber from dissections by the author. The book consists of five sections covering histology (by E. O. Shakespeare), bones and joints, muscles and fasci, arteries, veins, and lymphatics, the nervous system, and the organs of sense, of digestion, and genito-urinary organs.
            Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
            Date
1884
            Language
eng
            Type
StillImage
            Identifier
ZAd_2.pl97
            Original Format
1 print : lithograph, color
            Physical Dimensions
30 x 24 cm
            Citation
T. Sinclair & Son and Faber, Hermann, “Anatomical diagram of the ear,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed October 31, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/190.
    
