Digestive system. Artwork from Bartolomeo Eustachi's Tabulae anatomicae,published in 1714. Figures I and III show the stomach and oesophagus in isolation from front and back. Figure II shows the entire digestive system from the back,showing from top to bottom: liver (brown),stomach (white,rounded),pancreas (white,elongated),intestines (white,coiled),rectum and anus (red). Figures IV and V show the large intestine or colon from front and back respectively. Eustachi was an early Italian anatomist who died in 1574. Although he published a textbook during his lifetime,he died before publishing much of his work. The plates were found over 100 years after his death,and published as the Tabulae with explanations by 18th-century anatomist Giovanni Maria Lancisi |