In this Book

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In the ‘Anatomy lessons’ that were painted for the Surgeons’ Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection are described and discussed.

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

pp. 3

Copyright

pp. 4

Contents

pp. 5

Introduction

pp. 7

1 Sebastiaan Egbertszn [1] 1601-1603

pp. 30

2 Sebastiaan Egbertszn [2] 1619

pp. 46

3 Johan Fonteijn 1625–1626

pp. 70

4 Nicolaes Tulp 1632

pp. 78

5 Jan Deijman 1656

pp. 106

6 Fredrik Ruysch [1] 1670

pp. 122

7 Fredrik Ruysch [2] 1683

pp. 148

8 Willem Röell 1728

pp. 172

9 Petrus Camper 1758

pp. 190

Portraits of the Governors

pp. 214

Bibliography

pp. 235

Picture Acknowledgements

pp. 246

Index

pp. 248

Acknowledgements

pp. 252

About the authors

pp. 255

End note

pp. 255

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