Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 941

JACQUES FABIAN GAUTIER D'AGOTY (1717-1785) Anatomie des parties de la génération de l'homme, et de la femme. Chez J. B. Brunet et Demonville 1773 26 [4] pp., 8 col. plates. 39.4 cm.

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The eight colored mezzotints in this collection show the anatomy of normal pregnancy, pathological female genitalia, and normal and diseased male genitalia. While vivid and startling, their importance is less to medicine than to the history of printing and illustration.

Cited references: Choulant-Frank, p. 272; Wellcome III, p. 97

Gift of Henry J. Prentiss