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Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (NLM)
Title:
[Human body as a house]
Contributor:
Kats, Ṭoviyah, 1652?-1729.
Subject (Genre):
Book Illustrations
Subject (Genre):
Pictorial Works
Subject (MeSH Term):
Anatomy, Comparative
Publication Information:
Ṿinitsiʾah : bi-defus Bragadin, 467 [1707, i.e. 1708]
Publication Country:
Italy
Appears In:
Ḥeleḳ rishon mi-Sefer ha-ʻOlamot, o, Maʻaśeh Ṭoviyah.
Copyright Statement:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Order No.:
A012523
Physical Description:
1 print : engraving.
Image Description:
Subject: This illustration from a Hebrew encyclopedia pairs the interior of a human interior with the interior of a house, a visual metaphor: the organs, like rooms in a house, have different functions.
Note (General):
Dated 1707, but license date is 7 June, 1708. Cf. Wellcome.
Note (General):
Old Negative no. 76-207
Cited in:
Wellcome cat. of printed books, II, p. 367
Language:
heb
Restrictions on Access:
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Exhibited in:
Exhibited: "Dream Anatomy," National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md., October 9, 2002 to July 31, 2003.
URL:
Call Number:
WZ 260 K187m 1708 (p. 18)
Record UI:
101434416

[Human body as a house]

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