The Fetus in the Womb from A.D. 500

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Illustrations of the various positions of a fetus in the womb from Muscio Medicus’ Musitio Gynaecia, a gynecological treatise dating to c. AD 500 and preserved in a manuscript around AD 900.

Via Europeana Regia.

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