Medieval and Renaissance images of the brain and the cerebral ventricles
From Magnus Hundt's Antropologium (published 1501). At top: ventriculi cerebri. Below: Anterio: medius postremus. Note that the lateral ventricles (at left) are paired.
| 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 12. |
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