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Nine mouths. Drawing, c. 1793.

Designs showing the lower half of the face in various physiognomies and actions. Engraving after C. Le Brun.

Christ heals the dumb and blind demoniac. Etching.

Twelve mouths. Drawing, c. 1793.

Three mouths with variously projecting lips. Drawing, c. 1793.

Yasoda glimpses the whole universe inside Krishna's mouth. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

Two open mouths bearing tongues curving up in a phallic way and joining in the middle with the message in German 'kissing does not kill'; a safe sex advertisement by the Real AIDS Grazer Kunst Verein. Colour lithograph by Matthias Herrmann, 1993.

A crane inserts its beak into the mouth of a wolf; illustrating Aesop's fable. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

Seven mouths. Drawing, c. 1793.

The mechanical treatment of deformities of the mouth : congenital and accidental / by Robert Ramsay and James Oakley Coles.

[one line illegible] Erythema Iris and similar erythema multiforme. Erythema centrifugumannulare ver gyratum perstans and various chronic and hardly-elevated serpiginous and gyrate eruptions

Icones organorum humanorum gustus et vocis / Samuelis Thomae Soemmerring.

Developmental aspects of oral biology / edited by Harold C. Slavkin, Lucien A. Bavetta ; contributors Lucien A. Bavetta [and others].

Get mouthy : Friday 30 September, 19.00-23.00 : a night of mixed morsels all about the mouth ... / Wellcome Collection.

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The mechanical treatment of deformities of the mouth : congenital and accidental / by Robert Ramsay and James Oakley Coles.

[one line illegible] Erythema Iris and similar erythema multiforme. Erythema centrifugumannulare ver gyratum perstans and various chronic and hardly-elevated serpiginous and gyrate eruptions

Icones organorum humanorum gustus et vocis / Samuelis Thomae Soemmerring.

Developmental aspects of oral biology / edited by Harold C. Slavkin, Lucien A. Bavetta ; contributors Lucien A. Bavetta [and others].

Get mouthy : Friday 30 September, 19.00-23.00 : a night of mixed morsels all about the mouth ... / Wellcome Collection.