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  • Trigesima Tabula. Engraving of a flayed back showing the spine and Processus muscle
  • Diagnostic Dolls
  • Diagnostic Dolls, used by women patients to indicate areas of affliction to their doctors. Clockwise from top: Ivory, Japanese. Ivory, Chinese. White jade, Chinese. Ivory, Japanese. Ivory, Chinese. Ivory, Japanese. Ivory, Chinese. Ivory, Japanese.
  • Muscles of the face and neck. Engraving, 1686.
  • A foetus and placenta with umbilical cord. Engraving, 1686, the second, third, fifth and sixth figures after G. de Lairesse, 1685.
  • The base of the brain with part of the medulla oblongata, the blood vessels injected with wax, and the cerebellum (Table XII, figs 1-2), after Cowper in Ridley (1695); the foetal heart, the larynx and the viscera (Table XIII), after an etching by G. Vandergucht in Cheselden (1740) Etching by I. Basire, 1743.
  • A human head partially dissected and seen from the front. Drawing by R. Ennis, 2007.
  • 3D-printed reconstruction of a healthy adult human brain
  • An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a skull in his lowered right hand. His left arm is raised with his hand held in a gesture of eloquence. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a skull in his lowered right hand. His left arm is raised with his hand held in a gesture of eloquence. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • Human head sculpted in clay, hands holding clay ears
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Louis-César-Joseph Ducornet, an artist born without arms. Lithograph by H. Robillard.
  • The muscles of the suspended right arm, seen from the front. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • An écorché seen from the back. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • The muscles of the suspended right arm and upper right shoulder, seen from the back. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • The muscles of the raised left arm and of the upper left shoulder, seen from the front. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • The muscles of the suspended right arm and upper right shoulder, seen from the back. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • An écorché seen from the back. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • The trunk of an écorché seen from the back. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • The muscles of the suspended right arm, seen from the front. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.
  • An écorché with a raised left arm seen from the back; studies of the muscles of the right and left thighs, seen from the front. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century, after L. Cigoli.
  • Human head sculpted in clay, completed model
  • Human head sculpted in clay, completed model
  • Two écorchés, facing right. Drawing, attributed to Bartolomeo Passarotti, 15--.
  • Two écorchés, facing right. Drawing, attributed to Bartolomeo Passarotti, 15--.
  • Human head sculpted in clay, facial muscles of expression
  • Human head sculpted in clay, skull viewed from the front
  • Human head sculpted in clay, facial muscles