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18th August 2012

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The carotid, subclavian, and axillary arteries From Quain’s Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain and Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, 1892Also

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The carotid, subclavian, and axillary arteries

From Quain’s Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain and Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, 1892

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1st August 2012

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Illustration of rabbit skull from A Systeme of Anatomy (treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants) by Samuel Collins, 1685

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29th July 2012

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Jonas Arnold Delineavit - Amputation Instruments, from Johannes Scultetus’s Armamentarium chirurgicum bipartitum, 1666

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Jonas Arnold Delineavit - Amputation Instruments, from Johannes Scultetus’s Armamentarium chirurgicum bipartitum, 1666

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26th July 2012

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Plates 79 - 84 (Electro-Physiologie Photographique) by Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne, 1862

Plates 79 - 84 (Electro-Physiologie Photographique) by Guillaume-Amant Duchenne de Boulogne, 1862

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11th June 2012

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Lantern Medical Slides, c. 1930s

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Lantern Medical Slides, c. 1930s

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14th May 2012

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Anatomical Venus - La Specola Model, 18th century
From Opening Up a Few Corpses, 1795-1995 by John Bender of Stanford University
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Anatomical Venus - La Specola Model, 18th century

From Opening Up a Few Corpses, 1795-1995 by John Bender of Stanford University

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10th May 2012

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French female figure modeled in wax This is also the cover illustration for Rachilde’s notorious 1884 novel Monsieur Vénus.

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French female figure modeled in wax

This is also the cover illustration for Rachilde’s notorious 1884 novel Monsieur Vénus.

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5th May 2012

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Medici Venus (anatomical wax model), 18th century

Medici Venus (anatomical wax model), 18th century

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9th April 2012

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Miss Anatomy, 1937 MISS ANATOMY, a life-size female figure sculptored from actual life and featuring internal organs that can be removed for lecture purposes, has been placed on exhibition at the New York Museum of Science and Industry in Rockefeller Center, N. Y. C.

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Miss Anatomy, 1937

MISS ANATOMY, a life-size female figure sculptored from actual life and featuring internal organs that can be removed for lecture purposes, has been placed on exhibition at the New York Museum of Science and Industry in Rockefeller Center, N. Y. C.

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9th April 2012

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Chronophotographic image by Albert Londe of what was described as an attack of hysteria.
Albert Londe: Hysterieanfall beim Menschen, chronofotografische Bilderfolge, Labor des Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, 1885

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Chronophotographic image by Albert Londe of what was described as an attack of hysteria.

Albert Londe: Hysterieanfall beim Menschen, chronofotografische Bilderfolge, Labor des Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, 1885

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