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Images

  • A coal mine in the human brain; representing medical assistance by Tomasz Judym to industrial workers. Colour lithograph by Wongel, 1976.
  • A fugitive sheet of a seated female figure, her hand resting on a vase, with her thorax and abdomen dissected to reveal the ribs, vertebral column and pelvis. Photograph after a woodcut, 1611.
  • A segment of the spine. Line engraving by A. Bell after J. Weitbrecht, 1798.
  • A nude figure seen from the back with a spinal column of eighteen vertebrae exposed, with the nerves that radiate from it visible. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR), x-ray analysis
  • Spine and nerves: cross-section showing the nerves of the spine emanating to the thorax, abdomen and pelvis. Line engraving by G. Wooding, 1790.
  • Anatomy and botany; top, hyoid bone and vertebrae; left, vertebral column; right, gentian. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • Bones of the scapula, ribs and sternum. Etching by or after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • The bones of the human skeleton: the skull and the vertebrae. Engraving, 1686.
  • A skeleton of a child born with two backbones and two heads. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
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Works

    • Videos
    • Online

    The functional treatment of fractures. Part One.

    | Date: 1937
    • Film

    The functional treatment of fractures. Part One.

    | Date: 1937
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Rheumatic and rheumatoid arthritis and various kinds of spondylitis Series II: spondylitis and spondylosis, especially the spondylose rhizomelique of Pierre Marie (chronic rheumatic ankylosing spondylitis

    | Date: 1903-1949 | Reference: PP/FPW/B.280/2
    Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)
    • Books

    Die Halbgelenke des menschlichen Körpers : eine Monographie / von Hubert Luschka.

    Luschka, Hubert von, 1820-1875 | Date: 1858
  • view Ueber die Einwirkung einer auf die Wirbelsäule ausgeübten Extension auf den Blutdruck / von W.Y. Cowl und G. Joachimsthal.
    • Books
    • Online

    Ueber die Einwirkung einer auf die Wirbelsäule ausgeübten Extension auf den Blutdruck / von W.Y. Cowl und G. Joachimsthal.

    Cowl, W. Y. | Date: 1895?
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