. Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection 1889-1932. Kahn, Fritz 1888-1968; Kahn, Arthur David 1850-1928; Natural history illustrators; Natural history. the brain an analogous Situation ; Similarly, the other illustrations on these pages âthe Single cell, 30 billions of which compose the human kMxly; the gastric gland. flve nüllions of which line the stomach wall; the human tooth, which is a transformed fish scaleâand the hun- dreds of other drawings and photos that make up Dr. Kahn's tKX>k, are described in such texl, with plenty of technical description as well, but never too &quo
. Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection 1889-1932. Kahn, Fritz 1888-1968; Kahn, Arthur David 1850-1928; Natural history illustrators; Natural history. the brain an analogous Situation ; Similarly, the other illustrations on these pages âthe Single cell, 30 billions of which compose the human kMxly; the gastric gland. flve nüllions of which line the stomach wall; the human tooth, which is a transformed fish scaleâand the hun- dreds of other drawings and photos that make up Dr. Kahn's tKX>k, are described in such texl, with plenty of technical description as well, but never too "heavy" to digest. "niUS, fuUy oognizant of the mystery and cod- 1 fusk>n that has too long shrouded this field of science, the author has compietely ditched an of the hard-to-take obsolete stutt, and coine up with 700-odd delightful as well as informative pages. As noted in the preface, the hunum biok^ey of 1943 is not the anatomy of 1880, which began: "the hu- man body consists of a head, a trunk and limbs.** Human biology of 1943 is a beating heart sus- pended from a small apparatus. It has been beat- ing for two weeks. *Today is July H," says the man in white. "It will still beat on September 11. From this Container it receives salt; thniugh these tubes, hormones; and from this small tank, oxygen âit can live for years"âthe hecurt of a dead organism. That is modern biology. As interesting and ex- citing as a newsre^ brinmiing over with the wis- dom of our ages; the practkaJ wisdora which en- Med non-Aryan Dr. Kahn to throw a brilttant spot- ^t into every darkened comer and crevioe of the â ^logkaü Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kahn, Arthur and Fritz.
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