"The lion is coming": crowds at a fair panicking at the rumour that a lion has escaped; representing panic among crowds. Lithograph after K.R. Reinhardt, ca. 1860.

An itinerant medicine vendor and his assistants being pelted off stage with stones from an angry audience. Engraving by C.F. Stoelzel, 1798, after J. Schenau.

A pack of hounds attacking a wolf ferociously in a forest. Etching with engraving by F. Joullain after A. F. Desportes.

People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

A pack of hounds attacking and running after wild boar. Etching by F. Joullain, 1734 after A. F. Desportes after F. Snyders.

An audience of people throwing handkerchiefs (containing money?) onto a stage where an itinerant medicine vendor has been successfully selling his wares. Engraving.

An itinerant medicine vendor, draped with live snakes, sells his wares from a stage to an enthusiastic audience. Line engraving by D. Ghisi after G. Romano.

An operator treating a patient's foot; a crowd of people is gathered around watching the work. Line engraving by P. Quast.

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The Sour Collective : the body issue. Issue #3.

On social control and collective behavior : selected papers / [Robert E. Park] ; edited and with an introduction by Ralph H. Turner.

Psychoanalytic sociology : an essay on the interpretation of historical data and the phenomena of collective behavior / Fred Weinstein and Gerald M. Platt.

Behavior mechanisms in monkeys / Heinrich Klüver.

Evolution and human behavior

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The Sour Collective : the body issue. Issue #3.

On social control and collective behavior : selected papers / [Robert E. Park] ; edited and with an introduction by Ralph H. Turner.

Psychoanalytic sociology : an essay on the interpretation of historical data and the phenomena of collective behavior / Fred Weinstein and Gerald M. Platt.

Behavior mechanisms in monkeys / Heinrich Klüver.

Evolution and human behavior

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The Sour Collective : the body issue. Issue #3.

On social control and collective behavior : selected papers / [Robert E. Park] ; edited and with an introduction by Ralph H. Turner.

Psychoanalytic sociology : an essay on the interpretation of historical data and the phenomena of collective behavior / Fred Weinstein and Gerald M. Platt.

Behavior mechanisms in monkeys / Heinrich Klüver.

Evolution and human behavior