Wilhelm Braune: Topographisch-anatomischer Atlas : nach Durchschnitten an gefrornen Cadavern

Braune, Wilhelm. Topographisch-anatomischer Atlas: nach Durchschnitten an gefrornen Cadavern. (Leipzig: Verlag von Veit & Comp., 1867–1872).

and supplement: Braune, Wilhelm. Die Lage des Uterus und Foetus am Ende der Schwangerschaft. (Leipzig: Verlag von Viet & Comp. , 1872).

Wilhelm Braune (1831–1892) was a professor at the University of Leipzig. His Topographisch-anatomischer Atlas nach Durchschnitten an gefrornen Cadavern consists of over 30 color lithographs of frozen cross sections of human anatomy, many of them being the most aesthetic of that genre. Of the first plates, Braune states:

“[they are] taken from the body of a powerful, well-built, perfectly normal man, aged 21, who had hanged himself. The organs exhibited no pathological abnormalities. The body, which was brought unfrozen, was placed on a horizontal board … In this position, the subject lay untouched in the open air, and at the temperature of about 50 degrees F., for fourteen days. At the end of this time the process of freezing was commenced and completed …”

After sections were cut, thin paper was placed over them and tracings were made of the anatomical features. Similar techniques were used to create the supplement, Die Lage des Uterus und Foetus am Ende der Schwangerschaft, which features large folded plates.

Tables B and C of the Supplement include large flaps showing different views of the lower half of the body, and scans were made of each flap along with the shared upper half (i.e. Table B (view 1), Table B (view 2), etc.).

Further reading

Braune, W. An atlas of topographical anatomy after plane sections of frozen bodies. Trans. by Edward Bellamy. (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1877)

Morton's Medical Bibliography (Garrison and Morton). Ed. by Jeremy Norman. Fifth ed. (Aldershot, Hants, England : Scolar Press ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Gower Pub. Co., 1991). No. 424.

Plates

Titlepage.

Table IA.

Table IB.

Table II.

Table [IIB].

Table III.

Table IV.

Table VII.

Table VIII.

Table XIX.

Table XXI.

Table XXII.

Table XXIV.

Table XXVII.

Supplement Titlepage.

Supplement Table D.

Supplement Table A.

Supplement Table B (view 1).

Supplement Table B (view 2).

Supplement Table C (view 1).

Supplement Table C (view 2).

Supplement Table C (view 3).

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