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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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Mapping the body

These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.

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Wonder years

The confusion and secrecy surrounding his condition seriously affected Chris’s mental health, blighting his teenage years. But somehow he began to hope and plan for the future.

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  • Diaphragm, pharynx and foot dissections: seventeen figures. Line engraving by P. Rothwell, 1789, after J. Wandelaer after B.S. Albinus.
  • A Roman academy of artists. Etching after Pier-Francesco Alberti, 16--.
  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • The muscles of the left leg, seen from the front, and the bones and muscles of the right leg seen in right profile, and between them, a patella. Drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca. 1515-1520.
  • Anatomie élémentaire du corps humain / par Étienne Rabaud.
  • Anatomie élémentaire du corps humain / par Étienne Rabaud.
  • Anatomie élémentaire du corps humain / par Étienne Rabaud.
  • Anatomie élémentaire du corps humain / par Étienne Rabaud.
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