Seven Fantastic Vintage Anatomy Drawings

Medicine in the Middle Ages wasn’t so great. Long, long, long before scans explored every micrometer of the human body, scientsts did their best to document what was under our skin. Popular Science has a gallery of seven of the most fantastic anatomy drawings from that era.

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