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  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • Human skull: frontal view. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Inside the brain / Wellcome Trust.
  • A coal mine in the human brain; representing medical assistance by Tomasz Judym to industrial workers. Colour lithograph by Wongel, 1976.
  • A human head dissected: "In memoriam". Acrylic painting by R. Ennis, 2001.
  • Child's head with large temporal lobes and depressed frontal lobe. Drawing, c. 1900.
  • Atlas of head sections : fifty-three engraved copperplates of frozen sections of the head and fifty-three key plates with descriptive texts / by William Macewen.
  • Atlas of head sections : fifty-three engraved copperplates of frozen sections of the head and fifty-three key plates with descriptive texts / by William Macewen.
  • Head of "a backward boy" divided into four cerebral lobes: profile. Ink drawing with watercolour, c. 1900.
  • Das menschliche Gehirn nach seinem Aufbau und seinen wesentlichen Leistungen / gemeinverständlich dargestellt.
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Works

  • view Note on the preservation of encephala by the zinc chloride / by Professor Rolleston.
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    Note on the preservation of encephala by the zinc chloride / by Professor Rolleston.

    Rolleston, George, 1829-1881 | Date: [1878?]
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    An animal model of altered synaptic plasticity : role of PKC-dependent processes / door Monica Di Luca.

    Di Luca, Monica, 1960- | Date: 1992
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    The central nervous system: two microscopic images of nerves (?). Colour lithograph by F. Reichhold, 1895.

    Reichhold, F. | Date: [1895] | Reference: 569017i
  • view Leçons sur le cerveau : (cours d'anatomie comparée du Muséum) encéphale envisagé dans son ensemble télencéphale / par R. Anthony.
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    Leçons sur le cerveau : (cours d'anatomie comparée du Muséum) encéphale envisagé dans son ensemble télencéphale / par R. Anthony.

    Anthony, R. (Raoul), 1874-1941 | Date: 1928
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    Neuro retreat : a small sample of brain research conducted at Berkeley.

    Two Photon | Date: [2017]
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