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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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Are people born violent?

Laura Bui explores how the nature vs nurture debate applies to those who commit homicide.

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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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Healing hard-working hands

The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.

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  • Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society ... Whereunto is subjoyned the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts.
  • Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society ... Whereunto is subjoyned the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts.
  • Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society ... Whereunto is subjoyned the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts.
  • A compendium of anatomy, human and comparative : with directions for dissecting the different parts of the human body ; intended principally for the use of students / by Andrew Fyfe.
  • A compendium of anatomy, human and comparative : with directions for dissecting the different parts of the human body ; intended principally for the use of students / by Andrew Fyfe.
  • Dr Barclay's advocation to the proposed professorship of comparative anatomy supported and opposed: represented by him riding the skeleton of an elephant into the University of Edinburgh. Etching by J. Kay, 1817.
  • Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society ... Whereunto is subjoyned the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts / [Nehemiah Grew].
  • Dr Barclay's advocation to the proposed professorship of comparative anatomy supported and opposed; represented by him riding the skeleton of an elephant into the university of Edinburgh. Etching by J. Kay, 1817.
  • Lectures on comparative anatomy in which are explained the preparations in the Hunterian collection ... To which is subjoined: Synopsis systematis regni animalis nunc primum ex ovi modificationibus propositi. [Supplement] / By Sir Everard Home, bart.
  • Lectures on comparative anatomy in which are explained the preparations in the Hunterian collection ... To which is subjoined: Synopsis systematis regni animalis nunc primum ex ovi modificationibus propositi. [Supplement] / By Sir Everard Home, bart.
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