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  • Youth suffering from lateral spine curvature, corrected with a double Thomas' splint
  • Apparatus to straighten the spine. Made for a child. The shoulder rings are adjustable and the back plate has a narrow extension to the base of the spine. Late 18th century.
  • Trigesima Tabula. Engraving of a flayed back showing the spine and Processus muscle
  • A segment of the spine. Line engraving by A. Bell after J. Weitbrecht, 1798.
  • Skeleton: illustration of the pelvis, spine and ribcage, seen from behind. Etching, ca. 1871.
  • Muscles and bones of the spine: fourteen figures. Line engraving by J. Wandelaar, 1745.
  • Three examples of diseased spine, numbered for key. Lithograph by Batelli after Ferdinando Ferrari, c. 1843.
  • Muscles of the spine: 14 figures. Line engraving by A. Bell after B.S. Albinus, 1777.
  • Bones of the spine, ribcage and sacrum: nine figures, including vertebrae, ribs and coccyx. Etching, ca. 1871.
  • Nervous system: five figures, showing the nerves, brain and spine. Line engraving by A. Bell after Eustachius, 1788/1797.
  • Nervous system: five figures, showing the nerves, brain and spine. Line engraving by A. Bell after Eustachius, 1771/1783.
  • Correction of dislocation of the spine. Drawing related to Pare. Les oeuvres d'Ambroise Pare 1585 in the Lancet.
  • A Permian Osteomyelitis: across section through the spine showing highly developed sinuses which in life were filled with pus, etc.
  • Several sections of diseased brain and spine. Coloured stipple etching by W. Say after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1830.
  • A diseased brain; and two sections of spine. Lithograph by T. & W. Fairland after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1831.
  • Papanicolaou stained smear of a clival chordoma, microscopy. Chordomas are cancers formed of cells which resemble those of the notochord (spine) of a developing foetus. Although they can present anywhere within the spine and skull, the majority grow in the sacral region of the spine, corresponding to the lower back. This image shows a Papanicolaou (Pap) stained smear obtained from a needle biopsy of a chordoma in the clivus, a part of the cranium at the base of the skull.
  • Examples of Permian pathology: A)The oldest known example of Osteomylitis. B) Fractured vertebral spine of a Permian Reptile (Dimetrodon?) from Texas etc.
  • A partially clothed man, standing, viewed from behind; his spine appears severely deformed. Photograph by L. Haase for H.W. Berend, c. 1865.
  • Organs of sense: fifteen figures including dissections of the tongue, ear, eye, brain and spine. Line engraving by J. Taylor after F. Birnie, 1789.
  • Papanicolaou stained smear of a C2 vertebral chordomal mass, microscopy. Chordomas are cancers formed of cells which resemble those of the notochord (spine) of a developing foetus. Although they can present anywhere within the spine and skull, the majority grow in the sacral region of the spine, corresponding to the lower back. This image shows a Papanicolaou (pap) stained smear obtained from a needle biopsy of a chordoma of the C2 vertebrae, located at the top of the neck just underneath the base of the skull.
  • Observations on injuries of the spine and of the thigh bone: in two lectures. Delivered in the school of Great Windmill street / [Sir Charles Bell].
  • Observations on injuries of the spine and of the thigh bone: in two lectures. Delivered in the school of Great Windmill street / [Sir Charles Bell].
  • Observations on injuries of the spine and of the thigh bone: in two lectures. Delivered in the school of Great Windmill street / [Sir Charles Bell].
  • Bones of the torso: two figures showing the shoulders, ribcage, spine and pelvis, with a cartoon-style face. Pencil drawing, by J.C. Whishaw, 1852/1854.
  • Observations on injuries of the spine and of the thigh bone: in two lectures. Delivered in the school of Great Windmill street / [Sir Charles Bell].
  • Spinal curvature, its theory; its cure: giving a description of the anatomy of the spine and the parts in relation thereto / By George N. Epps.
  • The Pasteur Institute, Kasauli, India: production of the rabies vaccine: a rabbit, under anaesthetic, being infected with rabies by injection in the spine. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • The nervous system: two figures showing the brain, spine and nerves, and and an écorché figure with the nervous system indicated. Engraving by T. Jefferys, ca. 1763.
  • Four sections of diseased brain; and a section of spine. Coloured stipple etching by W. Say after C. J. Canton after F. F. Giraud for Richard Bright, 1831.
  • Four sections of diseased brain; and a section of spine. Colour stipple etching by W. Say after C. J. Canton after F. F. Giraud for Richard Bright, 1831.