Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
77 results
  • Muscle Innervation
  • Neuromuscular Junction from Drosophila
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs. Tow years later, at 39.
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs. Sandow as Gladiator. Aged 23. Reproduced from the painting made of him by the famous artist, Mr. Aubrey Hunt, who first met Sandow near Genoa, and was struck by his remarlable physique. It was Mr. Hunt who mentioned Samson's challenge to Sandow, and later left for London on the same evening to accept it.
  • Single muscle cell
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs. Two studies of the Author at 43. Note development of abdominal muscles in photo on the left and triceps development of arms
  • Nerve movement in forearm, ultrasound, hand joint extension
  • Types os superb physical manhood who have been developed to this high degree of physical fitness and resistant power to disease by the very methods I am advocating in this book, and have been advocating consistently all over the world for the past quarter of a century. This is the type of youthfull manhood that we could and should have had if my advice had been taken and followed, as recruits, instead of such weedy specimens of humanity as shown in the previous picture.
  • Nerve movement in forearm, elbow extension, ultrasound
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs. (Left) The original Farnese Hercules, to whom the Author has been compared. The accompanying photo shows- (Right) The Author in a similar pose. Many say that the Authors proportions are the more symmetrical of thw two.
  • Cardiac muscle stained for mitochondria. Mitochondria provide the energy to power contraction of the muscle.
  • A human hand anatomised and preserved for teaching.
  • Vigesimanona Tabula. Engraving of a flayed back of a female showing the Lumbar
  • Somites in the chick embryo
  • Nerve movement in forearm during wrist extension, ultrasound
  • Neuromuscular junctions in slow- and fast-twitch muscle
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs. Statuesque pose, from photo at about 26, with all muscles relaxed
  • Nerve movement in forearm during wrist extension, ultrasound
  • Nerve movement in forearm, finger extension, ultrasound
  • Nerve movement in forearm during typing, ultrasound
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs. Author at about the same age, 21, showing symmetrical development and balanced physique of back, sholders and limbs
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs
  • Eugen Sandow: Life of the Author as told in Photographs. Photo-study of the Author at 25
  • La Culture Physique, 1904, Max Unger.
  • Zebrafish embryos with green fluorescent myotomes
  • Experiments in physiology. Facial expressions
  • Nerve movement in forearm, finger extension, ultrasound
  • Nerve movement in forearm during wrist extension, ultrasound
  • Experiments in physiology. Facial expressions; Attention
  • Fast muscle fibres in zebrafish myotomes