Details of arteries and veins. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

[Paris]

1 print : engraving ; platemark 35.2 x 22.1 cm

Anatomie. ; Benard fecit. Bears plate no. : Seconde pl. VIII

Wellcome Collection 35445i

Reading from left to right, starting at the top left: the ramifications of the vena porta in the liver (fig. 2); the membranes in the tracheal artery (fig. 3); the trunk of a major vein dissected (fig. 4); a part of the aorta (fig. 5); lyumphatic vessels (fig. 6); the ramifications of the vena cava in the liver (fig. 7); the distribution of the arteries in the placenta, after Ruysch (fig. 8); pulmonary artery (fig. 9); trunk of the pulmonary vein (fig. 10)