End of Life: Natural or Unnatural Death Investigation and Certification

Abstract

(Anatomical Tables) by Johann Adam Kulmus (German), 2 ed, 1732; engraving, frontispiece (dated 1731). Anatomische Tabellen was first published in 1722 and later translated into Dutch, Ontleedkundige Tafelen (1734) and Japanese, Kaitai Shinsho (New book of Anatomy, 1774), as well as Latin and French. This library with nearly full bookshelves appears as though on a curtained stage, with a body resting on a dissection table, a skeleton lurking in an alcove and surgical instruments arranged on a platform in the foreground. Courtesy of the United States National Library of Medicine.