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Printing the body

The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.

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Beating the bodysnatchers

When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.

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The mystery of the malignant brain

In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.

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  • White-jointed spider: two specimens and anatomical parts. Coloured engraving, ca. 1789, after S. Storie.
  • Cooke's School of Anatomy (London School of Anatomy), London: interior, showing anatomical specimens in a cupboard. Photograph, ca. 192-.
  • Cooke's School of Anatomy (London School of Anatomy), London: interior, showing Edward Knight with anatomical specimens. Photograph, ca. 192-.
  • Cooke's School of Anatomy (London School of Anatomy), London: interior, showing Edward Knight with anatomical specimens. Photograph, ca. 192-.
  • A sky-lit anatomy theatre with anatomical specimens in jars and a suspended skeleton. Colour acquatint by J. C. Stadler after A. Pugin, 1815.
  • A sky-lit anatomy theatre with anatomical specimens in jars and a suspended skeleton. Colour acquatint by J. C. Stadler after A. Pugin, 1815.
  • Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation / Consisting of twelve plates from drawings engraved on stone, and coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and two copperplates from the Philosophical transactions, coloured by the same artist. The whole representing forty-five specimens of aborted ova and adventitious productions of the uterus, with preliminary observations, explanations of the figures, and remarks, anatomical physiological. By A. B. Granville.
  • Portrait of Joshua Brookes, nearly whole-length, seated at desk with anatomical atlas on desk and specimen glass in background
  • Seven figures illustrating different types of anatomical specimen jars and their lids and methods of preservation used by Réaumur, Le Cat, and others. Engraving, 1749.
  • Mr. Brookes's celebrated museum and theatre of anatomy : Mr. George Robins has the pleasure to announce to the medical world, that he has been honoured by the instructions of Joshua Brookes ... to sell by auction, on Thursday, the 3rd of July, and the 20 following days (Sunday and Monday always excepted) at the Theatre of Anatomy, in Blenheim-Street, London, the anatomical and zoological museum of theis learned anatomist / George Robins.
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