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Pregnant woman

About This Item

Title

Pregnant woman

Subject

Pregnancy
Disease
Women's Health
Book Illustrations

Description

Artist unknown.
Anatomical diagram of a pregnant woman with parts of the body linked to various diseases.
Caption: Figura dela matrice dal natural, duna Dona.
Title taken from commentary by Sudhoff in facsimile edition: Fasciculus medicinae of Johannes de Ketham, Alemanus (Birmingham, Ala. : The Classics of Medicine Library, 1988).

Source

Fasciculus Medicinae was a collection medical treatises first printed in 1491, although it previously circulated in manuscript. The work is noted for its illustrations, which were among the first anatomical illustrations to be printed. The text was issued thereafter in several new editions that included new illustrations, with this extremely rare 1516 edition from Milan based on a 1509 forgery of the 1493 Venetian edition.

Publisher

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Date

1516

Language

ita

Type

StillImage

Identifier

ZAe_19b.c1va
ZAe_19b.c1vb

Original Format

1 print : woodcut

Physical Dimensions

25 x 13 cm

Citation

“Pregnant woman,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 24, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2247.