Anatomy Book stamped 160 POW Hospital

Illustrations of Regional Anatomy by Jamieson, Sixth Edition, published by Livingstone of Edinburgh in 1946.

This textbook on anatomy was owned by Werner Wachsmuth (1900-1990), the senior German doctor at 160 POW Camp Hospital, Lydiard Park.

It is inscribed: Property of:/ OBERST Prof.. Dr WACHSMUTH/ POW No A (?) 428915 and bears the camp's official stamp.

After the war Dr Wachsmuth became a leading authority on anatomy and in 1935, he co-founded Practical Anatomy which provided anatomically accurate representations for the practicing surgeon. The work appeared in several volumes until the 1990s.