The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving by Valois.

The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving.

An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a length of rope. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.

Two men studying a corpse by the light of a candle stuck in its chest. Etching after a drawing attributed to Polidoro Caldara (Polidoro da Caravaggio).

An anatomical dissection taking place in a hall decorated with musclemen and human and animal skeletons in niches. Engraving with etching, 1685.

Claude Ambroise Seurat, known as the 'Human skeleton'. Stipple engraving by R. Cruikshank, 1825.

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The anatomy of a brain dissection

Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death

Getting under the skin

The original drama of operating theatres

Dissection on display : cadavers, anatomists, and public spectacle / Christine Quigley.

Fifteenth century miniatures of extramural dissection / E.C. Streeter ... and Charles Singer.

The dissection of a corpse before a company of surgeons (?). Oil painting.

Introduction to dissection.

The umpire; being a serio-comi-critical dissection of three learned and important dissertations on the nature of Englishmen and Scots, lately exhibited to the public under the titles of Old-England; the Thistle, and the Rose. By Jest and Earnest, two independent-electors.

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The anatomy of a brain dissection

Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death

Getting under the skin

The original drama of operating theatres

Images

Catalogue

Dissection on display : cadavers, anatomists, and public spectacle / Christine Quigley.

Fifteenth century miniatures of extramural dissection / E.C. Streeter ... and Charles Singer.

The dissection of a corpse before a company of surgeons (?). Oil painting.

Introduction to dissection.

The umpire; being a serio-comi-critical dissection of three learned and important dissertations on the nature of Englishmen and Scots, lately exhibited to the public under the titles of Old-England; the Thistle, and the Rose. By Jest and Earnest, two independent-electors.

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Stories

The anatomy of a brain dissection

Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death

Getting under the skin

The original drama of operating theatres

Images

Catalogue

Dissection on display : cadavers, anatomists, and public spectacle / Christine Quigley.

Fifteenth century miniatures of extramural dissection / E.C. Streeter ... and Charles Singer.

The dissection of a corpse before a company of surgeons (?). Oil painting.

Introduction to dissection.

The umpire; being a serio-comi-critical dissection of three learned and important dissertations on the nature of Englishmen and Scots, lately exhibited to the public under the titles of Old-England; the Thistle, and the Rose. By Jest and Earnest, two independent-electors.