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.
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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.
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Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
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Pain and the power of touch
As a new physiotherapist, Fiona Murphy quickly learned that her patients’ pain was unpredictable and very personal. But using the right words became the key to helping them.
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Observations on the anatomy of the skin of a species of muraena / by Andrew Clark.
Clark, Andrew, 1826-1893.Date: [between 1850 and 1859?]- Archives and manuscripts
"The Fate of Skin Homografts in Man", T Gibson and PB Medawar, Journal of Anatomy, Jul 1943
Date: 1943Reference: PP/COL/C.2/2Part of: Colebrook, Leonard, FRS, FRCOG, FRCS (1883-1967), bacteriologist- Books
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On regeneration in the pigmented skin of the frog, and on the character of the chromatophores / by Leo Loeb and R.M. Strong.
Loeb, Leo, 1869-1959.Date: [1904]- Archives and manuscripts
Coutu - Crossland
Date: 1950-1988Reference: PP/MLV/C/3/6aPart of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- 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]