[The treatise "Nouveaux eléments d'anatomie descriptive" of H. Beaunis and A. Bouchard (1868)]

Abstract

The treatise of anatomy of H. Beaunis (1830-1921) and A. Bouchard (1833-1899) published in 1868, had an important influence on the French anatomical sciences for more than thirty years. New editions were published in 1873, 1880, 1885, and the last in 1894. Both authors were professors at the Faculty of Medicine of Strasbourg, and tutors at the French Military Medical School established in Strasbourg. The 406 black-and-white woodcut ilustrations are mostly original. They were principally based on the drawings of E. Schweitzer (1837-1903) and A. Chuquet (1811-1899), both of whom lived in Strasbourg. Most of the illustrations were engraved by the Alsatian J. Lévy (1843-1918).