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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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Your gut’s instincts
Cultural historian Elsa Richardson explores the stomach’s influence over our emotions, and why trusting your gut is often good advice.
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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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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.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.Date: [1515?-1520?]Reference: 26058i- Books
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On the muscles and nerves of a chimpanzee (Troglodytes niger) and a Cynocephalus anubis / by Frank Champneys.
Champneys, Francis Henry, Sir, 1848-1930.Date: [1871]- Books
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A survey of the microcosme, or the anatomy of the bodies of man and woman : wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews, and ligaments thereof are accurately delineated, and so disposed by pasting, as that each part of the said bodies, both inward and outward, are exactly represented. Useful for all doctors, chyrurgeons, statuaries, painters, &c. / By Michael Spaher of Tyrol, and Remilinus. Englished by John Ireton, Chyrurgeon.
Remmelin, Johann, 1583-1632.Date: MDC XCI. [1691]- Pictures
Horse's foreleg: five figures showing the bones, muscles and arteries. Engraving by T. Cowan after B. Herring, ca. 1860.
Herring, Benjamin, 1830-1871.Date: [1860?]Reference: 570536i- Pictures
Horse's hind leg: five figures showing the bones, muscles and arteries. Engraving by T. Cowan after B. Herring, ca. 1860.
Herring, Benjamin, 1830-1871.Date: [1860?]Reference: 570537i