Cutter's Anatomical Outline, Plate No. 10: Antero-Posterior Section of the Eye and View of the External, Middle, and Internal Ear
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content: Chart of a human eye and ear drawn by Calvin Cutter (1807-1872), an American physician and itinerant lecturer on medical subjects, and printed in 1848 by B. W. Thayer and Co., in Boston.
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content: [Key to Anatomical Outline Plates, from Cutter, Calvin. <i>A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene</i>, 1852]
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content: PLATE X.
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content: AN ANTERO-POSTERIOR SECTION OF THE EYE.
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content: Fig. 1. 1, 1, The sclerotic coat. 2, 2, The cornea. 3, 3, The choroid coat. 4, 4, The retina. 5, 5, The iris. 6, 6, The posterior chamber of the eye that contains the aqueous humor. 7, 7, The anterior chamber. 8, 8, The pupil. 9, The crystalline humor. 10, 10, The vitreous humor 11, The optic nerve. 12, A representation of a pen. 13, An inverted image of the pen (12) on the retina. 14, 14, A canal surrounding the crystalline humor. 15, 15, The bevelled junction of the cornea and sclerotic 475coats. A, a perpendicular ray of light from the pen. B, B, oblique rays, that are refracted in passing through the humors of the eye.
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content: Fig. 2. A View of the External, Middle, and Internal Ear. 1, 1, The external ear. 2, The meatus auditorius externus, (the tube that connects with the middle ear.) 3. The membrana tympani, (drum of the ear.) 8, 8, The tympanum, (middle ear.) 4, The malleus. 5, The incus. 6, The orbicularis. 7, The stapes, (stirrup-bone,) that connects with the vestibule of the internal ear. 9, 9, (4, 5, 6, 7, The small bones of the middle ear,) 10, 11, 12, The semicircular canals. 13, 13, The cochlea. 14, The auditory nerve. 15, The division of the auditory nerve to the semicircular canals. 16, The division to the cochlea. 17, 17, The Eustachian tube. 18, The chorda tympani nerve. 19, The seventh pair (facial) nerve. 20, The styloid process of the temporal bone. 21, 21, 21, 21, 21, The petrous or hard portion of the temporal bone, in which the parts of the middle and internal ear are situated.
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 2012.0165.555
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content: 2012.0165
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content: anatomical chart
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content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 26 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 67.31 cm x 6.985 cm