Dissected thorax and skull of a porpoise Sir George Frampton In the foreground a monk

In the foreground a monk tests his axe and supervises a sledge containing various instruments of torture

early 1920s

Ireland and America

1782 (c1783)

Dissected thorax and skull of a porpoise Sir George Frampton In the foreground a monkAnatomical studes of the thorax of the common or harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena (figure 1) with details of the skull (figures 2 3) and the chest wall (figure 4). Plate 4 figures 1 4 from Histoire anatomique et physiologique d'un organe de nature vasculaire dcouvert dans les ctacs, by M. G. Breschet (Paris, 1836). Headed 'Plexus arterial des ctacs. Et veine azygos renferme dans la canal rachidien [Arterial plexus of cetaceans. Azygos vein enclosed