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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.
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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
- Archives and manuscripts
Human anatomy
Date: 1714-1715Reference: MS.7600Part of: Chirac, Pierre (1650-1732)- Books
- Online
Human anatomy (Volume 1).
Quain, Jones, 1796-1865.Date: 1849- Books
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Human anatomy (Volume 2).
Quain, Jones, 1796-1865.Date: 1849- Books
Human anatomy : colouring / Margaret Matt.
Matt, MargaretDate: 2017- Books
Human anatomy / Elaine Marieb, Jon Mallatt.
Marieb, Elaine Nicpon, 1936-2018.Date: 2003