DescriptionInternal organs - thorax and abdomen (11291119833).jpg
Plate 81 showing the contents of the thorax and abdomen from Andrew Fyfe, A System of the Anatomy of the Human Body, second edn, vol.1 (1805). Dedicated "to the gentleman attending medical classes at the University of Edinburgh". Plate identified in the index as being from a work by Charles Nichols Jenty.
Andrew Fyfe (1752-1824) was a Scottish artist and anatomist, who held the post of disssector at the University of Edinburgh for 40 years. His textbooks, lavishly illustrated with copperplate engravings made from his own drawings (both copies from other worksand from life), were designed for students, and appeared in many editions, successively enlarged and improved. the text is as dry and factual as his lectures were reputed to be. Later editions included comparative anatomy, using the work of Cuvier.
Part of the Anatomical Atlase collection: SPEC P8.24/oversize in Special Collections and Archives, the University of Liverpool Library.
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