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Below, an illustration of vessels used as pharmaceutical
apparatus from The New Dispensatory: containing the Elements
of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and the Materia Medica published
by W. Lewis, Edinburgh 1786 -- an outstanding book from the Historic
Library.
Important works of medicine are well represented
at Pennsylvania Hospital. Early editions of Vesalius, Morgagni,
Harvey, and Pare, to name just a few, can be found in the Historic
Library.
 At
right, engraved portrait of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), the
great anatomist and author of the first complete textbook of
human anatomy, De Humanis Corporis Fabrica (a copy of
which is held by the Historic Library).
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