Title
Anatomy of the Female Urogenital System
Original Creator
Jourdain Guibelet (Unknown, France, Anatomist)
Original Creation Date
1603
Description
This engraving was part of Guibelet’s work in Trois Discours Philosophiques. It depicts an adult woman holding an apple while standing in a natural landscape with the abdomen and urogenital systems exposed. Guibelet challenged the traditional medical opinion affirmed by Aristotelian and Galenic thought that women’s bodies were a physiological aberration of male anatomy.
Rights
Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. This image is in the public domain.