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  • Xenopus, stitching up skin after egg removal
  • Xenopus, stitching body wall after eggs take
  • Plate XLIII. Surgical instruments used for anterior gastroenterostomy (surgical formation of an artificial opening between the stomach and the small intestine).
  • Surgical instruments, 15th, 16th, 18th century.
  • Twich applied correctly, but bad handling
  • Plate 19, Bourgery and Jacob, Iconografia d'anatomia, 1841.
  • A young man, standing, unclothed to the waist and viewed from behind; his left arm appears deformed. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, c. 1865.
  • The supposed benefits of beer are illusory. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • Surgical apparatus: includes an army medicine chest, demonstrations of a splint for excision of the elbow and an orthopaedic instrument to correct curvature of the spine. Wood engraving, 1850/1880?.
  • Surgical instruments. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656.
  • Imagine having your body left to science... while you're still in it / PETA.
  • Imagine having your body left to science... while you're still in it / PETA.
  • People bewitched (?) by a tengu (Japanese mountain demon) Colour woodcut attributed to Kyōsai, 187-(?).
  • Purkinje cell and dendritic tree, rat cerebellar cortex, SEM.
  • Surgical Equipment
  • Assorted veterinary instruments
  • Bartisch, Ophthalmodouleia, 1583
  • Bartisch, Ophthalmodouleia, 1583
  • Acupuncture prohibitions for pregnancy, Chinese/Japanese
  • A marble tablet sculpted in relief with trophies and ornaments illustrating the magnificence of the ancient Romans. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1761.
  • Saint Antony the hermit, Saint Eligius and Saint Sebastian. Coloured aquatint, 1853, after H. Leu the elder.
  • Chinese MS acu-moxa point chart: Gall bladder channel
  • Three foot yang channels and their acupoints, general chart
  • Gan zi wu sequence in the points of the yang channels
  • Acupuncture chart, gall bladder channel of foot shaoyang
  • Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (3)
  • Jing, ying, shu, yuan, jing, he points of the yang channels