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  • Child's head with large temporal lobes and depressed frontal lobe. Drawing, c. 1900.
  • Child's head, with fat cheeks: profile. Drawing, c. 1900.
  • Head of a child with large cheeks. Drawing, c. 1900.
  • A manual of diseases of the nervous system / by W.R. Gowers.
  • Male figure with diseases attached, late 15th century.
  • Purkinje neurons in culture
  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr Thomas Willis ... : With large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index for the explaining all the hard and unusual words and terms of art, derived from the Latine, Greek, or other languages, for the benefit of the meer English reader, and meanest capacity. With eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. [i.e. Samuel Pordage].
  • The remaining medical works of that famous and renowned physician Dr Thomas Willis ... : With large alphabetical tables for the whole, and an index for the explaining all the hard and unusual words and terms of art, derived from the Latine, Greek, or other languages, for the benefit of the meer English reader, and meanest capacity. With eighteen copper plates / Englished by S.P. [i.e. Samuel Pordage].
  • Origanum vulgare 'Compactum'
  • Abscess, Brain
  • Avicenna, Canon, Isfahan, 1632
  • Extreme congestion of the brain and its membranes
  • Alzheimers disease
  • Nutty brain, artwork
  • Brain: cytomegalovirus infection
  • Brain with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
  • Brain: cerebral cryptococcosis with AIDS
  • Primula veris L. Primulaceae Cowslip, Herba paralysis Distribution: W. Asia, Europe. Fuchs ((1542) quotes Dioscorides Pliny and Galen, with numerous uses, from bruises, toothache, as a hair dye, for oedema, inflamed eye, and mixed with honey, wine or vinegar for ulcer and wounds, for scorpion bites, and pain in the sides and chest, and more. Lobel (1576) calls them Primula veriflorae, Phlomides, Primula veris, Verbascula. Lyte (1578) calls them Cowslippe, Petie mulleyn, Verbasculum odoratum, Primula veris, Herbae paralysis and Artheticae. Along with cowslips and oxeslips, he says they are 'used dayly among other pot herbes, but in Physicke there is no great account of them. They are good for the head and synewes ...'. Like other herbals of the 16th and 17th century, the woodcuts leave one in no doubt that Primula veris was being written about. However, other translators of Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959 with Goodyear's 1655 translation
  • A coal mine in the human brain; representing medical assistance by Tomasz Judym to industrial workers. Colour lithograph by Wongel, 1976.
  • dPal-Idan Lha-mo (Magzor Palden Lhamo), a Tibetan demon goddess riding on a mule. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Healthy adult human brain viewed from above, MRI
  • Healthy adult human head and brain viewed from behind, MRI
  • Polycystic Kidney Disease
  • Healthy human brain from a young adult, tractography.
  • Myelinated nerves in a mouse brain, TEM