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  • Several examples of diseased joints (gout), numbered for key. Coloured lithograph by Batelli after Ferdinando Ferrari, c. 1843.
  • Bones of the pelvis, hip and knee joints. Pencil and red chalk drawing by J.C. Zeller, ca. 1833?.
  • Newmarket embrocation, or White oils : recommended for allaying swellings, inflammation, sprains, bruises, stiff joints, &c., &c. ... / Alfred Parker.
  • Surgical instruments, including lithotomy forceps and Mr. Brockedon's apparatus for weak knee joints. Engraving by J. Cleghorn after C. Varley.
  • Engravings of the bones, muscles, and joints, illustrating the first volume of the Anatomy of the human body / By John Bell.
  • Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints and their treatment by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas.
  • Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints and their treatment by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas.
  • Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle, joints, with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas.
  • Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle, joints, with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas.
  • Crosswort (Galium cruciata (L.) Scop.): flowering plants rooted in joints of stone wall with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • On bone-setting (so called), and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury, rheumatism, inflammation, &c. &c / by Wharton P. Hood.
  • On bone-setting (so called), and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury, rheumatism, inflammation, &c. &c / by Wharton P. Hood.
  • On bone-setting (so called), and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury, rheumatism, inflammation, &c. &c / by Wharton P. Hood.
  • On bone-setting (so called), and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury, rheumatism, inflammation, &c. &c / by Wharton P. Hood.
  • The left and right knee-joints of Frank Burgess, probably a soldier in the South African War, after excision of the left knee. Radiograph, 1900/1904.
  • Chronic rheumatic arthritis. Post-mortem appearance of the shoulder-joint of a patient, who had been totally disabled by the condition of his joints. The elevation of the humerus is particularly referred to.
  • Four syringes, with a woman and a man puffing on joints; advertising self-help workshops for drug-addicts organised by the AIDS-Hilfe NRW. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • Muscles and bones of the shoulder, arm and hand: two figures of écorché arms and two of elbow and wrist joints. Lithograph by Battistelli after C. Squanquerillo, ca. 1839.
  • Baby with arthrogryposis. This is caused by a muscle disorder that leads to the joints being limited in their range of movement and the limbs being pulled into abnormal positions.
  • Muscles of the arm, shoulder and chest, back view: male écorché figure holding right arm over his head, with small pencil sketches of joints. Ink and watercolour with laminated flaps, 18--.
  • Bones of the pelvis, scapula, hip, knee and elbow joints, with a figure of the Capitoline Venus and a faint sketch of a male nude. Pencil drawing by J.C. Zeller, ca. 1833?.
  • To all such as are used (or hereafter may have occasion) to take Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops ... : for curing, and immediately giving relief in all fevers, agues, rheumatism, gout, stone, gravel, asthmas, colds, coughs, and pains in the breast, limbs, and joints ... / B. Okell, W. and Cluer Dicey.
  • Trillium sessile L. Trilliaceae Distribution: North America. Various Trilliums were used by Native Americans to stop haematuria, haematemesis, menorrhagia, and to heal ulcers (Milspaugh, 1974). Roots were eaten to treat stiff muscles, and tea from the plant drunk and powdered plant put on joints for rheumatism by the Iroquois (Lewis & Elvin-Lewis, 2003). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A snake's mandibular joint
  • Knee joint, murine, LM
  • Ankle joint of a haemophiliac
  • Knee joint of a haemophiliac
  • Dissected knee joint showing tubercular synovitis
  • Acute suppuration of the knee joint
  • Tubercular synovitis of the knee joint