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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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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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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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The anatomy project - neuroanatomy. Parts 1, 3, 5-15.
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Physiology of the nervous system / by Robert B. Todd.
Todd, Robert Bentley, 1809-1860.Date: 1847- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: J
Date: 1638 - 1906Reference: MS.8934- Film
Movements in mid-foetal life - fragments. Reel 1. Film 15.
Date: 1936-7- Books
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On the relation between the structure, function, distribution and origin of the cranial nerves : together with a theory of the origin of the nervous system of Vertebrata / by W.H. Gaskell.
Gaskell, Walter Holbrook, 1847-1914.Date: [1890]