Stories
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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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Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death
Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.
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What the nose doesn’t know
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Appendix to System of dissections, part first; containing additional descriptions of the abdominal muscles. By Charles Bell, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842.Date: 1800- Books
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A system of dissections, explaining the anatomy of the human body, the manner of displaying the parts, and their varieties in disease. Volume the first. Containing the dissections of the abdomen, thorax, pelvis, thigh, and leg. The second edition. By Charles Bell, ...
Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842.Date: 1799-1800- Books
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Myotomia: or The anatomical administration of all the muscles of an humane body : as they arise in dissection. As also an analitical table, reducing each muscle to his use and part. Newly revived with additions, by William Molins Mr. in Chyrurgery. And published for the general good of all practitioners in the said art. Whereunto is added Sir Charls Scarborough's Syllabus musculorum.
Molins, WilliamDate: 1676- Books
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Myskotomia, or, The anatomical administration of all the muscles of an humane body, as they arise in dissection : as also an analitical table, reducing each muscle to his use and part / collected for private use, by William Molins ... ; and published for the general good of all practitioners in the said art.
Molins, WilliamDate: 1648- Books
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The manual of the anatomy or dissection of the body of man : containing the enumeration, and description of the parts of the same; which usually are shewn in the publick anatomical exercises. : With sundry figures thereunto belonging. / By Alexander Read.
Read, Alexander, 1586?-1641Date: 1658