Tekstblad uit: Janus Bleuland, Observationes Anatomico-Medicae de Sana et Morbosa Oesophagi Structura, 1785
1785
Medium
letterpress printing
Dimensions
219; 275
About this artwork
Pagina 117 en 118 uit: Janus Bleuland, Observationes Anatomico-Medicae de Sana et Morbosa Oesophagi Structura, 1785. Blad op beide zijden bedrukt.
Art Historical Context
This text page comes from Janus Bleuland’s 1785 medical treatise *Observationes Anatom-Medicae de Sana Morbosa Oesophagi Structura*, a Latin work exploring the healthy and diseased anatomy of the esophagus. Printed on both sides, pages 117 and 118 formed part of a scholarly publication by the Dutch physician and anatomist Jan Bleuland himself. Created during the Enlightenment, the book reflects a growing emphasis on empirical observation and detailed anatomical study that characterized eighteenth-century medicine. The medium of letterpress printing was essential to this era’s scientific progr...