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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. 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.

The functional treatment of fractures. Part One.

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

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

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

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The functional treatment of fractures. Part One.

The functional treatment of fractures. Part One.

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

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

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