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Six men stand at a table where a newborn child, whose umbilical cord is connected to placenta on the table. The strand is held by the professor Ruysch. On the far right is a boy who wears the skeleton of a child on a wooden base.

A painting by Jan van Neck depicting an “Anatomical lesson from Dr. Frederick Ruysch,” 1683. (Jan van Neck/Amsterdam Museum | Public domain)