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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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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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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.
Catalogue
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Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung nach ihrer Beziehung auf anatomische Wissenschaft und bildende Kunst / von Ludwig Choulant.
Date: 1852- Books
Artifizielle Körper - lebendige Technik : technische Modellierungen des Körpers in historischer Perspektive / Barbara Orland (Hg.).
Date: 2005- Ephemera
Exquisite bodies, or, The curious and grotesque story of the anatomical model : free exhibition, 30 July - 18 October / Wellcome Collection.
Wellcome Collection.Date: 2009- Books
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An outline of the history of art in its relation to medical science : being the substance of an introductory address delivered at the Medical and Physical Society of St. Thomas's Hospital, October, 1885 / by William Anderson.
Anderson, William, 1842-1900.Date: [1887?]- Books
De vele levans van een boek : de Fasciculus medicinae opniew bekeken / door Chris Coppens.
Coppens, E. C.Date: 2009