Frank Netter’s legacy

Abstract

During a career spanning over 50 years, Dr. Frank Netter (1906–1991) created more than 4,000 medical illustrations. His work helped us advance in our comprehension of human anatomy more than any other medical illustrator, since Vesalius in the sixteenth century.

Keywords

• Frank Netter
• history of medicine
• human anatomy
• medical illustrations

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