Rare Anatomical Books on Display April 8

Tables of the skeleton and muscles of the human body by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus
Tables of the skeleton and muscles of the human body by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus

The P. I. Nixon Medical Historical Library will have a collection of rare anatomical books on display for the public on Wednesday, April 8 from 3:00 – 5:30 pm.  Tables of the skeleton and muscles of the human body by Bernhard Giegfried Albinus, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem by Andreas Vesalius,  and Albrecht Durer’s De symmetria partium in rectis formis humanorum corporum are just a few of the more than 20 books that will be shown.

For more information or to arrange tours of the Nixon Library, contact Lisa Matye Finnie, Special Collections Librarian, at finnie@uthscsa.edu or 210-567-2406.

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