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Brain cyst

Descriptive Title: Brain cyst.

Actual Title: Plate XIII.

Artist: Kirtland, G.

Technique: stipple engraving, colour-printed

Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm.

Digital ID: RBAI071-0014

Scope and Content: Brain cyst, shown in isolation. Brain shown with large cyst on the inferior surface of the temporal lobe. Cyst has been dissected to removed liquid contents. Some cranial nerves and carotid arteries also shown. Inferior view.

General: Plate signed by the artist, G. Kirtland; and the engraver J. Wedgewood. Dated Jany. 1826.

Artist: Wedgewood, J.

Subject: Brain

Subject: Cysts

This plate is taken from the book:

Title: Morbid anatomy of the human brain

Author: Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835

Published: London : Printed for the author; and sold by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828

Part of the digital collection Anatomia 1522-1867 located at link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm

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