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  • A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.
  • The serpent entwines itself around the body of Eve; it whispers in her ear, enticing her to eat the forbidden fruit. Photogravure by Lemercier and co. after Walter Crane, 1899.
  • The serpent entwines itself around the body of Eve; it whispers in her ear, enticing her to eat the forbidden fruit. Photogravure by Lemercier and co. after Walter Crane, 1899.
  • Advertisement for the Body Positive help line for those with HIV, incorporating a telephone in the background. Colour lithograph.
  • An Egyptian father holding the body of his dead young son in his lap while the mother of the boy buries her head in his lap. Etching by A. Mongin after a painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
  • Oily fish facts : fish provides the body with protein and a rich variety of vitamins and minerals : oily fish in particular contains Omega 3.
  • Oily fish facts : fish provides the body with protein and a rich variety of vitamins and minerals : oily fish in particular contains Omega 3.
  • Wellington and Peel, in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching, 1829.
  • The body of a man with the trunk dissected: two figures showing the lungs after breathing out (left) and after breathing in (right, simulated by inflating the lungs). Coloured lithograph by William Fairland, 1869.
  • The body of a man with the trunk dissected: two figures showing the lungs after breathing out (left) and after breathing in (right, simulated by inflating the lungs). Coloured lithograph by William Fairland, 1869.
  • A group of men stand around the body of a man laid out on a pyre of logs during a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A group of men lower the body of a dead man on to a pyre of logs prior to a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • A nightwatchman disturbs a body-snatcher who has dropped the stolen corpse he had been carrying in a hamper, while the anatomist runs away. Etching with engraving by W. Austin, 1773.
  • Colonel Kirke draws the attention of a distressed young lady to the body of her brother whom he had hanged in an adjoining room. Engraving by F. Deeves after W. Hamilton.
  • An artist measures a model of the human body from a distance with one eye shut; representing the faculty of perception in extended space in phrenological classification. Steel engraving by J-I-L. Desjardins, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • The anatomy of the bones of the human body; represented in a series of engravings, copied from the elegent tables of Sue and Albinus / By Edward Mitchell, engraver ... With explanatory references, by the late John Barclay.
  • The anatomy of the bones of the human body; represented in a series of engravings, copied from the elegent tables of Sue and Albinus / By Edward Mitchell, engraver ... With explanatory references, by the late John Barclay.
  • The anatomy of the bones of the human body; represented in a series of engravings, copied from the elegent tables of Sue and Albinus / By Edward Mitchell, engraver ... With explanatory references, by the late John Barclay.
  • A man suffering from diseased genitals, with a swelling in the groin area and a rash of sores covering his entire body. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1856.
  • Mikrokosmographia: or, a description of the body of man: being a practical anatomy shewing the manner of anatomizing from part to part; the like hath not been set forth in the English tongue, long since composed in Latine / ... Done into English by H. Jackson.
  • Spirit canoe, Alaska. Among the Kwakiutle people of British Columbia it was customary to release a spirit canoe in the water, when a body was buried near a shore, in order to send the soul or spirit of the dead person on its journey.
  • Mikrokosmographia: or, a description of the body of man: being a practical anatomy shewing the manner of anatomizing from part to part; the like hath not been set forth in the English tongue, long since composed in Latine / ... Done into English by H. Jackson.
  • Mikrokosmographia: or, a description of the body of man: being a practical anatomy shewing the manner of anatomizing from part to part; the like hath not been set forth in the English tongue, long since composed in Latine / ... Done into English by H. Jackson.
  • The body of a youth with his trunk dissected: two figures showing the ribs and viscera, especially the position of the heart in systole and diastole. Coloured lithograph by J.B. Léveillé after William Fairland, 1869.
  • The body of a man lying down with the trunk dissected: two figures showing the lungs after breathing out (above) and after breathing in (below, simulated by inflating the lungs). Coloured lithograph by William Fairland, 1869.
  • An account of the galvanic experiments performed by John Aldini on the body of a malefactor executed at Newgate Jan. 17, 1803. With a short view of some experiments which will be described in the author's new work now in press / [Giovanni Aldini].
  • Japanese funeral customs: in a wooden temple outbuilding, overseen by a Buddhist monk, three attendants dressed in loincloths uncover a tub-shaped coffin to reveal the body of a dead man. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).