- Lioness and young, from an Ionian vase of the sixth century B. C
Lioness and young from an Ionian vase of the sixth century b. c. found at Caere in Southern Etruria (Louvre, Salle E, No. 298), from Le Dessin des Animaux en Grèce d’après les vases peints, by J. Morin, Paris (Renouard), 1911. The animal is drawing itself up to attack its hunters. The scanty mane, the form of the paws, the udders, and the dentition are all heavily though accurately represented. - The regions of the abdomen and their contents
- The arch of the aorta and its branches
- Lymphatics of the leg.
- The cartilages of the larynx; the trachea and bronchi
- Lymphatics of the head and neck. B, the thoracic duct
- A cross section of the skin
- The right auricle and ventricle laid open
- Skeleton
- The root of the left lung
- Front view of the thorax
- The Spine
- The Skull
- Superficial veins of the head and neck
- Passage into trachea and esophagus; Pharynx
- Vertical section of the skull, showing the sinuses of the dura mater
Vertical section of the skull - Plan of the foetal circulation
- Illustrating Galen’s physiological teaching
The basic principle of life, in the Galenic physiology, is a spirit, anima or pneuma, drawn from the general world-soul in the act of respiration. It enters the body through the rough artery (τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία, arteria aspera of mediaeval notation), the organ known to our nomenclature as the trachea. From this trachea the pneuma passes to the lung and then, through the vein-like artery (ἀρτηρία φλεβώδης, arteria venalis of mediaeval writers, the pulmonary vein of our nomenclature), to the left ventricle. Here it will be best to leave it for a moment and trace the vascular system along a different route.