Kidneys: One shown whole and the other as a network of blood vessels. Also shown are the Aorta, the Inferior Vena Cava and the Uterus. From Bartolommeo Eustachi Tabulae Anatomicae, second edition, Amsterdam, 1722. Eustachius was a contemporary of Vesalius but his drawings remain unpublished for about 150 years.

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