Stories
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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Mapping the body
These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.
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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
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Odontography, or a treatise on the comparative anatomy of the teeth, their physiological relations, mode of development and microscopic structure, in the vertebrate animals / by Richard Owen.
Owen, Richard, 1804-1892.Date: 1840- Books
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Observations on the function of the prostate gland in man and the lower animals. Part II / by Joseph Griffiths.
Griffiths, Joseph, 1863-1945.Date: [1889]- Books
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Descriptive anatomy of the horse and domestic animals / chiefly compiled from the manuscripts of Thomas Strangeways and Professor Goodsir by J. Wilson Johnston and T.J. Call.
Strangeways Thomas, 1824-1869.Date: 1870- Books
Anatomie élémentaire du corps humain / par Étienne Rabaud.
Rabaud, Etienne, 1868-Date: 1900- Books
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A new anatomical nomenclature : relating to the terms which are expressive of position and aspect in the animal system / by John Barclay.
Date: 1803