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On the Anatomy of the Heart Manuscript
Biomed.0348
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: On the Anatomy of the Heart manuscript
Creator:
Arana y Abreu, José
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0348
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(1 manuscript)
Date: 1896 May 25
Language of Material:
Spanish; Castilian
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7514871
Collection consists of a manuscript, created and signed by four students (José Arana y Abreu, Pedro Soler Bertot, Pedro Marti
Bonaplata, and José Albeu Rabane) in honor of their "dear and worthy professor of anatomy," Doctor Antonio Riera Villaret,
in Barna (Barcelona), in 1896. "Villaret had received the title of Doctor the same year that is manuscript is dated, making
this class one of the first that he taught. The text describes the basic anatomy of the heart, its location in the body, and
the extraction procedure, but begins somewhat poetically, calling it a 'noble and extremely sensitive organ.' Included are
3 original tipped-i photographs [mounted on cards] showing haunting images of a human heart dangling on a chain, as well as
7 figure (on 5 plates) showing various anatomical views, very delicately hand-drawn."--Antiquarian bookseller's description.
Antonio Riera Villaret "was a Spanish doctor who received his education at the University of Barcelona, where he eventually
went on to become a popular professor. He was an early practitioner of x-rays in the study of human anatomy, making it the
topic of his thesis in 1896, a year after Roentgen published his own groundbreaking work on the subject."--Antiquarian bookseller's
description.