Stories
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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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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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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
070601/Z/03/Z: Anatomy Lessons
Date: 2004Reference: WT/C/6/1/6Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
Concepts of anatomy in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine / Shizu Sakai.
Sakai, Shizu.Date: 1977- Archives and manuscripts
Alexander Monro secundus (1733-1817). Notes on his lectures on comparative anatomy.
Date: Mid 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.5589Part of: Hunterian Society of London- Books
Rational and empirical methods in early western and eastern anatomy / Roger K. French.
French, Roger (Roger Kenneth)Date: 1977- Books
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A remarkable example of the manner in which pressure-changes in the skeleton may reveal the labour-history of the individual / by W. Arbuthnot Lane.
Lane, William Arbuthnot, 1856-1943.Date: [1887]