Fig. 8.

This figure presents a woodcut from Dryander’s book Anatomia capitis humani. It shows the stage of Dryander’s dissection of the head, where the cerebellum is illustrated as viewed through the opening in the tentorium. The legend of this figure was translated by Lind [44]. “Just as the dura mater with its accompanying meninge separates the right-hand part of the brain from the left, so also does it divide the posterior brain from the anterior. But this second duplication does not seem to be joined together with veinlets as the first one. It contains within itself, a certain vacuity in which terminate many branches of the jugular veins. Toward the occiput in this duplication is a certain vacuity called the lacuna in which part of the blood is pressed out. This is called the torcular of Avicenna. Around the letter D you see that the mammilllary carunculae are indicated (i.e., the olfactory bulbs: not visible in the illustration), the instruments of smell as some call them. They send four nerves. AA. As allways, thus far indicates the little skin of the brain. BB. The lower brain on both sides. E. indicates the posterior”