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  • A young, naked man with a wreathed head: back view. Engraving by J.D. Herz after himself, c. 1732.
  • Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Moscow: people swimming and sunbathing at Cerebrensky public baths. Etching by M.G. Eichler, 1799, after G. de la Barthe, 1796.
  • Two human figures illustrating the reduction of dislocations of the foramen ovale and the dorsum ilii. Coloured pen drawing by G.E. Blenkins, 1831.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating spleen?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • Six cross-sections through a foot. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.
  • The upper body and head and ways of bandaging them. Stipple engraving by J. Bell.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
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Works

    • Books

    Namatu uṭal / Mā. Ēkāmparanātaṉ.

    Ēkāmparanātaṉ, Mā. | Date: 1959
    • Books

    Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present / edited by Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan.

    | Date: 2011
  • view Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.

    | Reference: 22307i
    • Books

    FCK OFF.

    | Date: [2019]
  • view Diagrams illustrating how to bandage and set fractures in splints. Engraving by J. Johnstone.
    • Pictures
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    Diagrams illustrating how to bandage and set fractures in splints. Engraving by J. Johnstone.

    | Reference: 23176i
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