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  • Diagram of a horse in motion, indicating the location of sixty different maladies on the body. Engraving, 17--?.
  • Parasites found in the human body: eleven figures, including a tapeworm, trichina and bladderworm. Chromolithograph, 1870.
  • The mummified body of the Emperor Charles V in the Escorial. Photograph of a painting by V. Palmaroli y González.
  • Diseased tissue on the genitals of a man, with a rash of sores covering his entire face and body: two figures, one showing the body, the other the man's face in profile. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1856.
  • Acupuncture/pressure points on the body seen in three-quarter profile to left. Woodcut by a Chinese artist.
  • Acupuncture/pressure points on the body seen in three-quarter profile to left. Woodcut by a Chinese artist.
  • Men washing the body of a recently deceased man in a Japanese bath-house. Watercolour painting, 18--.
  • The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving by Valois.
  • Materials for protection of the body and respiratory system in civil defence: three figures. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • Organs of the body performing gymnastic exercises; representing courses in physical culture taught by Edmond Desbonnet. Colour lithograph.
  • Royal Liverpool University Hospital: a pathologist cutting open a body in the mortuary. Drawing by Julia Midgley, 1998.
  • A man raises his hands in horror as he stands over the prostrate body of a woman. Etching.
  • A snake, brown in colour, with broken black cross-banded markings on the lower body. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • Organs of the body performing gymnastic exercises; representing courses in physical culture taught by Edmond Desbonnet. Colour lithograph.
  • A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body, with other precepts of the same arte. : Whereunto is added the exact cure of the Caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the Fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Johannes Ardern. And also the discription of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his use and vertues. With an apt Table for the better finding of the perticular matteris, contayned in this present worke. / Practised and written by that famoous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in Phisicke & Chirurgery: and translated into English by John Read, Chirurgeon.
  • A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body, with other precepts of the same arte. : Whereunto is added the exact cure of the Caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the Fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Johannes Ardern. And also the discription of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his use and vertues. With an apt Table for the better finding of the perticular matteris, contayned in this present worke. / Practised and written by that famoous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in Phisicke & Chirurgery: and translated into English by John Read, Chirurgeon.
  • A snake, green in colour with white markings the upper body: includes a detail of the tail's underside. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A red arrow on a graph pointing upwards through a human body, representing the increase in cancer in the USA. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • A red arrow on a graph pointing upwards through a human body, representing the increase in cancer in the USA. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • Japanese funeral customs: two attendants wearing loin-cloths place the body of a dead man in a round wooden vessel while a third prepares to open a large box to receive the body. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A cross-section of a pregnant woman's body in the final stages of labour. Engraving by J. Chapman, 1821.
  • Blood vessels of the human body, viewed as if standing in a domed glass case. Coloured line engraving, 17--.
  • A system of dissections; explaining the anatomy of the human body, the manner of displaying the parts, and their varieties in disease / [Sir Charles Bell].
  • Zyloric prevents the formation of high uric acid levels in the body : apply a raw lean beef-steak to the gouty part ...
  • Zyloric prevents the formation of high uric acid levels in the body : apply a raw lean beef-steak to the gouty part ...
  • Zyloric prevents the formation of high uric acid levels in the body : apply a raw lean beef-steak to the gouty part ...
  • Zyloric prevents the formation of high uric acid levels in the body : apply a raw lean beef-steak to the gouty part ...
  • The body of Napoleon Bonaparte is transported from the island St. Helena in 1840. Lithograph by J. Arnout after V.J. Adam.
  • A snake, slender and brown in colour, with dark narrow cross-banded markings on the upper body. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A man in the jungle, holding a gun; two men carry the body of a woman towards a hut in the background. Wood engraving by H. Linton after V. Bromley, 1873.