Illustration of the brain and spinal cord from the body of an adult male to show the arteries at the base of the brain and the anterior spinal arteries. color lithograph, 1844, by Joseph Maclise. From "The anatomy of the arteries of the human body and its applications to pathology and operative surgery with a series of lithographic drawings," Richard Quain, published 1844.

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