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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.

Animal skull, shown from beneath, above and from the side. Lithograph by R. Ball, 1857.

The body of Saint Bruno is laid out in state and surrounded by mourning Carthusian monks. Etching with engraving after E. Le Sueur.

The dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by J. Ch. G. Lucae (1814-1885) in order to determine the ideal female proportions. Chalk drawing by J. H. Hasselhorst, 1864.

Sarawak: decorated human skulls hanging in a Kayan house. Photograph.

Skull of an Ethiopian person: three figures. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.

An itinerant medicine vendor and tooth-drawer with his company, performing operations and offering medicines for sale from a waggon to a crowd of people in Rome. Wood engraving, 1872.

Human skull: frontal view. Lithograph, c. 1835.

A surgeon treating an irate patient's wounded leg in his surgery assisted by two attendants. Engraving.

The death-mask of Maria Manning, the murderer: three views. Lithograph by John Lane.

A skull with eyes formed of the male and female symbols, representing sterility attributed to sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph, 196- (?).

Four faces: a European, a Mongolian, an Ethiopian, and a profile of Samuel Johnson; three frontal silhouettes; three skulls of the same races seen from above (in the order European, Ethiopian and Mongolian). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.

Le cre des criminels / par A. Debierre ... Ornde 137 figures dans le texte.

Skull: two figures, showing side and front views. Watercolour by A. Mongrédien, ca. 1880.

Neurofibromatosis and Recklingshausen's disease

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A skull with eyes formed of the male and female symbols, representing sterility attributed to sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph, 196- (?).

Four faces: a European, a Mongolian, an Ethiopian, and a profile of Samuel Johnson; three frontal silhouettes; three skulls of the same races seen from above (in the order European, Ethiopian and Mongolian). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.

Le cre des criminels / par A. Debierre ... Ornde 137 figures dans le texte.

Skull: two figures, showing side and front views. Watercolour by A. Mongrédien, ca. 1880.

Neurofibromatosis and Recklingshausen's disease