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  • Arms showing funis brachii, Berengarius, 1523
  • Portrait of Johannes Dryander
  • Portrait of Johannes Dryander
  • Second Muscular Tabula, Thomas Geminus
  • Figure showing the base of the brain, Thomas Geminus
  • Anatomical fugitive sheets: circa 1540
  • Anatomical Fugitive sheets, circa 1540
  • Skeletons of child and foetus, 16th Century
  • Thoracic viscera, 16th Century
  • Omnium humani corporis partium descriptio seu ut vocant anatomia ... / [Walther Hermenius Ryff].
  • View of dissected brain: figura tertia
  • Drawings: four ecorches, two on each of two
  • A surgeon and two assistants using pulleys and ropes to aid traction for manipulating the body of a male patient. Woodcut, 1575.
  • A black man with a red head and right arm emerges from a foul stream into a landscape where a winged woman is waiting for him with a red garment; representing the transformations of the alchemical work from corruption to perfection. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • Surgical instruments laid out on a table, for use in cataract and hernia operations during the mid 1500s, with two men in 16th century dress standing behind it. Colour facsimile process print after a 16th century manuscript, 1925.