Illustration from William Hunter, Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata. Auctore Guilielm Hunter ... The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures by William Hunter, Physician Extraordinary to the Queen, Professor of Anatomy in the Royal Academy and Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. Printed at Birmingham by John Baskerville, 1774 and sold in London by S. Baker and G. Leigh, in York-Street: T. Cadell in the Strand; D. Wilson and G. Nicol, opposite York-buildings; and J. Murray in Fleet-Street.
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| Date | 1774 |
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| Location | London |
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William Hunter (1718-1783) was a Scottish anatomist who spent the majority of his career in London. A pupil of William Smellie, he became the leading obstetrician in London of his day. His study of pregnancy and collaboration with the Dutch artist Jan van Riemsdyk created the now-iconic Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus, published in 1774. Hunter insisted that Riemsdyk should illustrate exactly what he saw in the dissection room to ensure the drawings were ‘almost as infallible as the object itself’. The book provided a detailed anatomical study of pregnancy, and in addition, Hunter had plaster cast models of these depictions made to enhance teaching of obstetrics. The page shown here illustrates the pregnant uterus at five months. |
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