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  • Paul Ferdinand Gachet. Etching by V. van Gogh, 1890.
  • A man. Oil painting.
  • A man. Oil painting.
  • A man standing, anterior view with brain and contents of thorax and abdomen exposed. Engraving by Giulio de' Musi, by 1552, first published in 1714.
  • A skeleton, seen from the front, with labels giving the latin names of the bones. Photograph after a woodcut, 1501.
  • Four vignettes demonstrating different cauterisation points on naked human bodies. Watercolour after a twelfth century manuscript.
  • Section of the dorsal (?) rib cage showing multiply fractured ribs. Watercolour in grisaille by S. A. Sewell, ca. 1918.
  • A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • The dissection of an emaciated, grey cadaver by an anatomist who is making an abdominal incision with a scalpel with his right hand while his left hand is placed on the cadaver's hip. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • An anatomist making an incision from the neck through the upper ribs of a skeletal cadaver. He stands behind the cadaver, his right hand cutting with a large blade while his left arm comes round the cadaver's neck as he uses his left hand to pull back the ribs at the incision. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • A skeletal cadaver with two flaps of skin of the abdomen cut away to reveal the subcutaneous layer of muscle and fat, labelled "mirac". Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • A nude figure seen from the back with a spinal column of eighteen vertebrae exposed, with the nerves that radiate from it visible. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • A male nude with the parts of the abdomen and thorax labelled. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals & Fleets, 1879.
  • An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a length of rope. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male écorché holding a knife in his left hand, exposing his bowel with his right hand, and resting his right foot on a slab on which a cadaver lies supine. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male écorché holding a knife in his left hand, exposing his bowel with his right hand, and resting his right foot on a slab on which a cadaver lies supine. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male écorché figure in three-quarter view seen from the right, holding the skin of his legs in his right hand. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male écorché figure, lateral view seen from the right, striding towards right, holding disc. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male écorché figure in three-quarter view seen from the right, holding the skin of his legs in his right hand. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a length of rope. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A male écorché figure, lateral view seen from the right, striding towards right, holding disc. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • Sequah on Clapham Common. Oil painting, ca. 1890.