Stories
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
- In pictures
Exposing the secrets of the human body
Scientists, artists, and philosophers have long studied our anatomy to try to discover what it means to be human.
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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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.
Catalogue
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Human anatomy: the skeleton and muscles. Engravings after B.S. Albinus, 1747.
Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 1697-1770.Date: [1749]Reference: 581283i- Archives and manuscripts
Anatomy of the Human Lung
Waters, A. T. H. (Alderman Thomas Houghton), 1826-1912Date: 1859Reference: SA/MSL/J/2/14 (in 2 parts)Part of: Medical Society of London- Archives and manuscripts
The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Lung
Date: 1863Reference: SA/MSL/J/2/15Part of: Medical Society of London
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Illustration from Cheselden, The Anatomy of the Human Body.
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Illustration from Cheselden, The Anatomy of the Human Body.