The Anatomical Alphabet of 1724

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Paul Dijstelberge of the Special Collections Amsterdam has created a fantastic (if not quite complete) anatomical alphabet from initial caps drawn which pepper William Cowper’s 1724 book Myotomia Reformata: or an Anatomical Treatise on the Muscles of the Human Body.

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William Cowper’s Myotomia Reformata via Morbid Anatomy. More info on the work itself available at The New York Academy of Medicine.

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