Medieval and Renaissance images of the brain and the cerebral ventricles

In 1913, Walter Sudhoff published a history of texts and illustrations of the brains ventricles. The images below are clickable..

Reference:

Sudhoff, W. (1913) Die Lehre von den Hirnventrikeln in textlicher und graphischer Tradition des Altertums und Mittelalters. Archiv. Fur Geschichte der Medizin VII, 149-205

All images from this Sudhoff article are reproduced with kind permission of the Institute of the History of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University. Copying or other use of these images is not permitted.

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