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Johannes Remmelin's Catoptrum Microcosmicum is more than an introduction to the human body. The work is a guide to the paper dissections with this volume from 1619. Take a minute to contemplate this wonder from the Osler Library of the History of Medicine.

Remmelin, Johann, et al. Cum Deo, Johannis Remmelini Suevo-Ulmensis Catoptrum Microcosmicum, Suis Aere Incisis Visionibus Splendens, Cum Historia, & Pinace, De Novo Prodit. Typis Davidis Francki, 1619.
Osler Library of the History of Medicine.

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