id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_znchtiwa7nhprhwzxnr2qgtqvq Mabel L. Purkerson Depictions of the Kidney through the Ages 1997 9 .pdf application/pdf 3713 361 66 The availability of different book illustration techniques also contributed to the development of medical We have examined major descriptions of the kidney in 16th-, 17thand 18th-century original works, all monumental contributions to anatomy, Vesalius gives depiction of the human kidney short shrift In book V, figure 22, the human kidney (fig. arrangement (a) and Vesalius' dog kidney dissections (b) [reproduced from ref. Vesalius dissected a dog kidney (book V, fig. The illustration in figure 4 depicts the location of the right kidney incorrectly, Ruysch's depictions of convoluted tubules on the surface of the kidney (left) and renal A plate from Theatrum Anatomicum [14] shows Ruysch's representation of the kidney (fig. Plate 42 of Bidloo's Anatomia depicting the kidneys and related structures [reproduced Figure 11 shows a kidney from Bidloo's book (bottom) and the same plate (top) from Plate XXII of Cheselden's The Anatomy of the Human Body [reproduced from ref. ./cache/work_znchtiwa7nhprhwzxnr2qgtqvq.pdf ./txt/work_znchtiwa7nhprhwzxnr2qgtqvq.txt