Burial scene prepresented in rock-painting, Zimbabwe.

A worked-out Neolithic flint mine, used as a burial place

Grave-slab from inhumation cist-burial at Ednam, Scottish Borders (Roxburghshire). (1928)

A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

Funerary pit.

Slab-lined grave of the Scottish Bronze Age Scottish Borders

A Mousterian burial place at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France

Plan and section of another child's grave. When found three flint instruments lay in positions indicated.

Image of a Neolithic grave, damaged, Czechoslovakia.

Pit burial at Liury-sur-Vesle (Marne).

Burial of the Rheinish Early Bronze Age. Foret de Schirrein, (Bas Rhein).

Kidney - proximal convoluted tubule

Syringes

Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

Foochow, Fukien province, China: a woman carrying buckets of night-soil. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Hall

AIDS and the workplace : health service staff : a NUPE health & safety publication / NUPE.

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