From Ruysch's cabinet. Note the pathetic pose of the foetal skeleton at the top. He is playing left-handed with an injected artery as a bow on a sequestrum as a violin. Note also the feather borne by another to the left; the coils of intestine (probably his own) by a third to the right, who also holds in his other hand an injection of the pampiniform plexus; the vesical vase to the extreme left; the touching symbolism of the recumbent skeleton and its butterfly; and the rockery of calculi interspersed with arterial and other injections. Ruysch's Thesaurus Anatomicus, III. Amstel. 1703. ADDRESSES AND OTHER PAPERS BY WILLIAM WILLIAMS KEEN M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.S. (HON.) Professor of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; Membre Ehren- mitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie; Honorary Illustrated PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON W. B. SAUNDERS & COMPANY 1905 |