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Featured on PDR in the collection Kaishi Hen, an 18th-Century Japanese Anatomical Atlas

Images from Kaishi Hen (Analysis of Cadavers), an anatomical atlas from the dawn of experimental medicine in Japan, published in Kyoto in 1772. The book details, in exquisite woodcut illustrations by Aoki Shukuya (d. 1802), the experiments and findings of Kawaguchi Shinnin (1736-1811).

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1772

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Kaishi Hen


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Public Domain Worldwide

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