Medieval and Renaissance images of the brain and the cerebral ventricles
From a French manuscript dated 1400. The four compartments are labeled from the top: sensus communis, cellula imaginativa, cellula aestimativa rationis, cellula memorativa.
| 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, figure 6. |
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