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  • The morbid anatomy of the human brain. Illustrated by coloured engravings of the most frequent and important organic diseases to which that viscus is subject / [Robert Hooper].
  • Diseases of the nervous system. Care of the loss of speech and its association with partial destruction of left-anterior lobe of the brain (localization of speech centres).
  • Neurons derived from human neural stem cells. The green staining highlights the typical appearance of differentiated nerve cells. Cells such as these could form the basis of future treatments for degenerative brain diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
  • The start of the third book depicting disease of the brain. Avicenna, Canon, Isfahan, 1632 A.D.
  • Alzheimer’s Disease is a degenerative disorder of the brain which starts in middle or late life. It mainly affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, where the cortex becomes atrophied. Plaques containing an amyloid-like protein have been found within the cortex on examination.
  • Dr. Willis's Practice of physick, being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician: containing these eleven several treatises, viz. I. Of fermentation. II. Of feavers. III. Of urines. IV. Of the accension of the blood. V. Of musculary motion. VI. Of the anatomy of the brain. VII. Of the description and use of the nerves. VIII. Of convulsive diseases. IX. Pharmaceutice rationalis, the first and second part. X. Of the scurvy. XI. Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes. Wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same. Fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader. With forty copper plates / The Pharmaceutice new translated [as also the remainder, by Samuel Pordage], and the whole carefully corrected. And amended.
  • Dr. Willis's Practice of physick, being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician: containing these eleven several treatises, viz. I. Of fermentation. II. Of feavers. III. Of urines. IV. Of the accension of the blood. V. Of musculary motion. VI. Of the anatomy of the brain. VII. Of the description and use of the nerves. VIII. Of convulsive diseases. IX. Pharmaceutice rationalis, the first and second part. X. Of the scurvy. XI. Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes. Wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same. Fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader. With forty copper plates / The Pharmaceutice new translated [as also the remainder, by Samuel Pordage], and the whole carefully corrected. And amended.
  • The compleat surgeon, or, The whole art of surgery explain'd in a most familiar method : containing the principles of that art; and, an exact account of tumours, ulcers, and wounds, simple and complicated, with those by gunshot: As also of venereal diseases, the scurvy, fractures, and luxations: With all sorts of chirurgical operations; the bandages and dressings, which are illustrated in forty copper plates; the method of dissecting the brain, by M. Duncan; several reflections and new machines by M. Arnaud. Likewise, a chirurgical dispensatory; shewing the manner of preparing all such medicines as are most necessary for a surgeon; and particularly the mercurial panacea / Written in French, by M. Le Clerc.
  • A diseased brain; and a section of diseased brain. Stipple etching by W. T. Fry after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Friern Hospital, London: a diseased brain, viewed from above. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • A dissected brain; and two sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. T. Fry for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • A diseased brain. Watercolour, 18--, after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1827.
  • A dissected brain; and a section of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. T. Fry after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • A diseased brain. Coloured aquatint by W. Say after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Five sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1830.
  • A diseased brain. Coloured aquatint by W. Say after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Three sections of diseased brain, numbered for key. Lithograph by Batelli after Ferdinando Ferrari, c. 1843.
  • Four sections of diseased brain, numbered for key. Lithograph by Batelli after Ferdinando Ferrari, c. 1843.
  • Four sections of diseased brain. Colour stipple etching by C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Four sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • A diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. Say after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • A diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. Say after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Several sections of diseased brain, numbered for key. Coloured lithograph by Batelli after Ottavio Muzzi, c. 1843.
  • A diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. Say after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • A diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. Say after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Several sections of diseased brain, numbered for key. Coloured lithograph by Batelli after Ferdinando Ferrari, c. 1843.
  • A diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. Say after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Five sections of diseased brain, numbered for key. Coloured lithograph by Batelli after Ottavio Muzzi, c. 1843.
  • Two sections of diseased brain. Coloured aquatint by W. Say after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Two sections of diseased brain. Coloured aquatint by W. Say after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.