Anatomical diagram of a newborn foal

Horses--anatomy & histology

Animals, Newborn--anatomy & histology

Parturition

Amnion--anatomy & histology

Book Illustrations

Artist unknown.

Diagram of a newborn foal inside of the amniotic sac (figure I) and with the amniotic sac removed (figure II).

Title supplied by cataloger.

Original image in: Ruini, Carlo, -1598. Anatomia del cavallo, infermita, et suoi rimedii (Venetia : Appresso Fioravante Prati, 1618), page 191. ZVh 2 (Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Anatomia del cavallo, Carlo Ruini's work on horse anatomy, was first published in 1598, two months after Ruini's death. Created by an unknown artist, the book is renown for its woodcut images, which were heavily influenced by works of human anatomy in the decades preceding it.

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

1618

ita

StillImage

ZVh_2.191

1 print : woodcut

33 x 22 cm