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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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  • Engravings, explaining the anatomy of the bones, muscles and joints / [John Bell].
  • Engravings, explaining the anatomy of the bones, muscles and joints / [John Bell].
  • Muscles of the lower limbs and the trunk: two écorché figures. Pencil and ink wash drawing, after an unidentified work on anatomy, ca. 1830(?).
  • Anatomy: écorché palm of the hand showing muscles, nerves, vessels and tendons. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Anatomy and botany: top, skull, jawbone, and muscles of head; bottom, hellebore plant. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • The hand: three figures, (left to right) bones, muscles, and surface anatomy. Colour lithograph, 1868, after J.A. Vinter.
  • Engravings of the bones, muscles, and joints, illustrating the first volume of the Anatomy of the human body / By John Bell.
  • A compendious system of anatomy. In six parts. I. Osteology. II. Of the muscles, &c. III. Of the abdomen. IV. Of the thorax. V. Of the brain and nerves. VI. Of the senses / From the Encyclopaedia. Illustrated with twelve large copperplates.
  • Anatomical examinations. A complete series of anatomical questions, with answers. The answers arranged so as to form an elementary system of anatomy, and intended as prepatory to examinations at Surgeon's-Hall. To which are annexed tables of the bones, muscles and arteries.
  • Compendium anatomicum, or A compendious treatise of anatomy adapted to the arts of painting and sculpture: in which the external muscles of the human body are represented as they appear when cleared of the skin, the membrana adiposa, and the veins and arteries that lie on their surface.
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