Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1296

SIR CHARLES BELL (1774-1842) Manuscript drawings of the arteries. Editions Medicina Rara 1971 [48] pp., 12 col. plates (part fold.). 26.7 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1294

Bell's original manuscript with colored drawings of the arteries is now in the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. The manuscript contains twelve vividly colored plates with holographic explanations for each. The drawings were probably made about 1798, and apparently were intended to illustrate Volume II of The anatomy of the human body (see No. 1186), by Charles' older brother, John. Volume I of this work had appeared in 1797.

See Related Record(s): 1186

Gift of John Martin, M.D.