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Bones of the human hand and wrist, and of the elbow joint (recto); head of a man (verso). Drawing by a draftsman of the school of Michelangelo.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.Date: [between 1500 and 1599]Reference: 44357i
Archives and manuscripts
Online
M0005327: Divination: reading the bones, Southern Africa
Date: November 1937Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/43/58
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Ephemera
Calcium and bone health : healthy bones are crucial to our wellbeing as we age - and calcium plays a key role / [Compass Group Holdings PLC.]
Date: [2015?]
Books
Bone and tooth : proceedings of the First European Symposium held at Somerville College, Oxford, April 1963 / sponsored by the Bone and Tooth Society ; edited by H. J. J. Blackwood.
European Bone and Tooth Symposium 1963 : Oxford University)Date: 1964
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The need for bones to be supplied to make glue, fertiliser, soap, and other products. Colour lithograph by D. Dekk, ca. 1946/1948.
Dekk, Dorrit.Date: [1946/1948]Reference: 44112i
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Sections through humerus and femur bones, two figures: the left illustration indicating a sarcoma (bone tumour) on the humerus bone, the right showing cancerous (?) metastases in the marrow of the femur. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
Gummelt, W.Date: [1897?]Reference: 577408i
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Human bones in the foreground; skeletons in the background. Engraving after C. Martinez, ca. 1680 (?).
Martínez, Crisóstomo, approximately 1638-approximately 1694.Date: [1680?]Reference: 574918i
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A human skeleton, seen from the front and leaning on a spade, surrounded by illustrations of individual bones. Engraving, 1686.
Date: [1686]Reference: 32187i
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Sections through two femur bones: the left illustration indicating the red bone marrow, the right showing the marrow and lymphatics. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
Gummelt, W.Date: [1897?]Reference: 577399i
Books
What three bones did / by Jessie Reid Crosbie.
Crosbie, Jessie Reid.Date: 1944
Books
On the process of repair after resection and extirpation of bones / by Dr. Albrecht Wagner ; translated, with an appendix of cases, by T. Holmes.
Wagner, Albrecht, 1850-1909.Date: 1859
Books
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Human osteology comprising a description of the bones with delineations of the attachments of the muscles : the general and microscopic structure of bone and its development / by Luther Holden.
Holden, Luther, 1815-1905.Date: 1878
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Human osteology comprising a description of the bones with delineations of the attachments of the muscles : the general and microscopic structure of bone and its development / by Luther Holden.
Holden, Luther, 1815-1905.Date: 1857
Books
Big Bone Lick : the cradle of American paleontology / Stanley Hedeen ; foreword by John Mack Faragher.
Hedeen, Stanley.Date: [2008], ©2008
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Somatometric chart: Bone lengths
Archives and manuscripts
Bones, Vol. I
Date: 1906Reference: MS.1907
Part of: Crawshay, Lionel Henry de Barri (1882-1917)
Books
Bone structures and functions / Rodolfo Amprino.
Amprino, Rodolfo.Date: 1965
Journals
Journal of bone and joint surgery.
Books
Ciba Foundation symposium on bone structure and metabolism / editors for the Ciba Foundation G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Cecilia M. O'Connor.
Symposium on Bone Structure and Metabolism (1955)Date: 1956
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Tibia and fibula bones. Colour wood engraving with letterpress, 1860/1900?.
Date: [1860?/1900?]Reference: 568817i
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Radius and ulna bones. Colour wood engraving with letterpress, 1860/1900?.
Date: [1860?/1900?]Reference: 568810i
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Radius and ulna bones. Colour wood engraving with letterpress, 1860/1900?.
Date: [1860?/1900?]Reference: 568809i
Archives and manuscripts
M0008859: Pathological bones of pleistocene cave bears
Date: 30 March 1943Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/77/69
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Books
Bone and radiostrontium / Arne Engström [and others].
Date: 1958
Books
The armour within us : the story of bone / by Joseph Samachson.
Samachson, Joseph.Date: [1973]

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Bones of the human hand and wrist, and of the elbow joint (recto); head of a man (verso). Drawing by a draftsman of the school of Michelangelo.

M0005327: Divination: reading the bones, Southern Africa

Calcium and bone health : healthy bones are crucial to our wellbeing as we age - and calcium plays a key role / [Compass Group Holdings PLC.]

Bone and tooth : proceedings of the First European Symposium held at Somerville College, Oxford, April 1963 / sponsored by the Bone and Tooth Society ; edited by H. J. J. Blackwood.

The need for bones to be supplied to make glue, fertiliser, soap, and other products. Colour lithograph by D. Dekk, ca. 1946/1948.

Sections through humerus and femur bones, two figures: the left illustration indicating a sarcoma (bone tumour) on the humerus bone, the right showing cancerous (?) metastases in the marrow of the femur. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.

Human bones in the foreground; skeletons in the background. Engraving after C. Martinez, ca. 1680 (?).

A human skeleton, seen from the front and leaning on a spade, surrounded by illustrations of individual bones. Engraving, 1686.

Sections through two femur bones: the left illustration indicating the red bone marrow, the right showing the marrow and lymphatics. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.

What three bones did / by Jessie Reid Crosbie.

On the process of repair after resection and extirpation of bones / by Dr. Albrecht Wagner ; translated, with an appendix of cases, by T. Holmes.

Human osteology comprising a description of the bones with delineations of the attachments of the muscles : the general and microscopic structure of bone and its development / by Luther Holden.

Human osteology comprising a description of the bones with delineations of the attachments of the muscles : the general and microscopic structure of bone and its development / by Luther Holden.

Big Bone Lick : the cradle of American paleontology / Stanley Hedeen ; foreword by John Mack Faragher.

Somatometric chart: Bone lengths

Bones, Vol. I

Bone structures and functions / Rodolfo Amprino.

Journal of bone and joint surgery.

Ciba Foundation symposium on bone structure and metabolism / editors for the Ciba Foundation G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Cecilia M. O'Connor.

Tibia and fibula bones. Colour wood engraving with letterpress, 1860/1900?.

Radius and ulna bones. Colour wood engraving with letterpress, 1860/1900?.

Radius and ulna bones. Colour wood engraving with letterpress, 1860/1900?.

M0008859: Pathological bones of pleistocene cave bears

Bone and radiostrontium / Arne Engström [and others].

The armour within us : the story of bone / by Joseph Samachson.