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Illustration in Maude Abbott’s Atlas

Photograph of page 33 of the Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease by Maude Abbott, black and white. The page is titles “Plate XIII. Patent Ductus Arteriosus” and contains 11 figures illustrating cardiac arteries.

With the Atlas, Maude Abbott provided a comprehensive review of knowledge on congenital heart disease, providing a better understanding of the morphology and pathogenesis of congenital heart anomalies and, ultimately, their treatment in the latter part of the 20th century.

Illustration from Abbott, Maude E., Atlas of congenital cardiac desease, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006, p.33