Coagulated human blood and crystals mb-artistname Jacques Daret Head of a boy

Head of a boy

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who granted him eternal sleep so that he would remain forever young

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Coagulated human blood and crystals mb-artistname Jacques Daret Head of a boyPlate 1 from the Croonian Lecture paper 'A farther investigation of the component parts of the blood', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 1 10. Section through an 'anuerismal tumor' with two views of crystalized salts under magnification. Figure 1 appearing here on the bottom of the plate was moved in the published version, the subject of a pencilled note to the engraver, lower left: 'NB Figure 1 to