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  • Male écorché, front view, with right hand raised to its face. Pencil and red chalk drawing, by F. T. Goodall, 1865.
  • A standing male écorché figure: front view. Engraving by T. Milton, 1804.
  • A standing male écorché figure: back view, showing the muscles. Engraving by T. Milton, 1802.
  • Martyrdom of three male saints on an elaborate scaffold. Etching by A.T. [A. Tempesta] (?).
  • A standing male écorché figure: front view, showing the skeleton and muscles. Engraving by T. Milton, 1803.
  • A standing male écorché figure: back view, showing the muscles and skeleton. Engraving by T. Milton, 1803.
  • A travelling chiropodist tending to a male patient's foot, Beijing. Wood engraving by T.H. Hildibrand after E. Ronjat after J. Thomson.
  • Two male merchants in Constantinople haggle over a woman slave, while other women look on. Tinted lithograph by T. Allom after himself.
  • A standing male écorché figure: side view, with right arm extended and outline diagrams showing the individual muscles. Engraving by T. Milton, 1804.
  • A male dancer jumping with his body and arms horizontal representing an advertisement for an AIDS benefit performance at the AT & T Danstheater, Den Haagh [The Hague] by t.b.v. AIDS Fonds. Colour lithograph.
  • N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • A male nude seated before a life class at the Royal Academy in London. Aquatint by J. Bluck after T. Rowlandson and A.C. Pugin, 1808.
  • A seated female nude figure and a male nude figure punting in a boat. Crayon manner print by J.B. Lucien, 1798, after P.T. Le Clerc.
  • Two male nude figures, one throwing his head back, while the second advances holding a trident and a net. Crayon manner print by J.B. Lucien, 1798, after P.T. Le Clerc.
  • Balanced reciprocal translocation 46,XY,t(2;5). This male has a chromosomal disorder. A chromosome 2 and a chromosome 5 have exchanged segments. The cell still contains a complete complement of
  • After his honeymooon, a newly married man becomes disenchanted with his new wife and goes out drinking in his club with an old male friend. Aquatint by C. Hunt after T. Onwhyn.
  • A rural surgeon treating a male patient's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by T. Major, 1747, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Four male couples wearing t-shirts bearing the slogans 'testing', ' treatment', 'trials' and 'triumphs'; advertisement for early advocacy and care for HIV by the Department of Public Health of San Francisco. Colour lithograph by John Tomlinson and Ira Nowinski.
  • An angry looking face attempts to escape from the middle of the green silhouette of a man shouting "AIDS mich nicht an!" (AIDS won't get me!); a yellow illustration of a male and female running against a cityscape appears repeatedly across the background; an advertisement for a mobile Theatre Project in support of AIDS on behalf of the Ministry of Labor, Düsseldorf. Colour lithograph.
  • Seven different specimen of the family Cervidae (deer), showing the males with deciduos branching antlers in their natural habitat. Coloured etching by W. Warwick after Captain T. Brown.
  • Atropa belladonna L. Solanaceae. Deadly nightshade. Dwale. Morella, Solatrum, Hound's berries, Uva lupina, Cucubalus, Solanum lethale. Atropa derives from Atropos the oldest of the three Fates of Greek mythology who cut the thread of Life (her sisters Clotho and Lachesis spun and measured the thread, respectively). belladonna, literally, means 'beautiful lady' and was the Italian name for it. Folklore has it that Italian ladies put drops from the plant or the fruits in their eyes to make themselves doe-eyed, myopic and beautiful. However, this is not supported by the 16th and 17th century literature, where no mention is ever made of dilated pupils (or any of the effects of parasympathetic blockade). Tournefort (1719) says 'The Italians named this plant Belladonna, which in their language signifies a beautiful woman, because the ladies use it much in the composition of their Fucus [rouge or deceit or cosmetic] or face paint.' Parkinson says that the Italian ladies use the distilled juice as a fucus '... peradventure [perhaps] to take away their high colour and make them looke paler.' I think it more likely that they absorbed atropine through their skin and were slightly 'stoned' and disinhibited, which made them beautiful ladies in the eyes of Italian males. Distribution: Europe, North Africa, western Asia. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Solanum. Nightshade: very cold and dry, binding … dangerous given inwardly … outwardly it helps the shingles, St Antonie's Fire [erysipelas] and other hot inflammation.' Most of the 16th, 17th and 18th century herbals recommend it topically for breast cancers. Poisonous plants were regarded as 'cold' plants as an excess of them caused death and the body became cold. They were regarded as opposing the hot humour which kept us warm and alive. Poultices of Belladonna leaves are still recommended for muscle strain in cyclists, by herbalists. Gerard (1633) writes that it: 'causeth sleep, troubleth the mind, bringeth madnesse if a few of the berries be inwardly taken, but if more be taken they also kill...'. He was also aware that the alkaloids could be absorbed through the skin for he notes that a poultice of the leaves applied to the forehead, induces sleep, and relieves headache. The whole plant contains the anticholinergic alkaloid atropine, which blocks the peripheral actions of acetylcholine in the parasympathetic nervous system. Atropine is a racemic mixture of d- and l- hyoscyamine. Atropine, dropped into the eyes, blocks the acetylcholine receptors of the pupil so it no longer constricts on exposure to bright light - so enabling an ophthalmologist to examine the retina with an ophthalmoscope. Atropine speeds up the heart rate, reduces salivation and sweating, reduces gut motility, inhibits the vertigo of sea sickness, and is used to block the acetylcholine receptors to prevent the effects of organophosphorous and other nerve gas poisons. It is still has important uses in medicine. Atropine poisoning takes three or for days to wear off, and the hallucinations experienced by its use are described as unpleasant. We have to be content with 'madness', 'frenzie' and 'idle and vain imaginations' in the early herbals to describe the hallucinations of atropine and related alkaloids as the word 'hallucination' in the sense of a perception for which there is no external stimulus, was not used in English until 1646 (Sir T. Browne, 1646). It is a restricted herbal medicine which can only be sold in premises which are registered pharmacies and by or under the supervision of a pharmacist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A hard tick (Margaropus annulatus): dorsal view of the male. Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • A. Morison "Physiognomy of mental diseases", cases
  • A. Morison "Physiognomy of mental diseases", cases
  • Bridewell Hospital: a corner of a courtyard. Engraving by T. Dale, 1822, after T. H. Shepherd, 1821.
  • Three anatomical dissections taking place in an attic. Coloured lithograph by T. C. Wilson after a pen and wash drawing by T. Rowlandson.
  • Three anatomical dissections taking place in an attic. Coloured lithograph by T. C. Wilson after a pen and wash drawing by T. Rowlandson.
  • The male human flea (Pulex irritans). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.
  • Crushed cervical nerve roots, disc replacement.