An assemblage of 17th Century orthotic devices, found in Girolamo Fabrizio‘s “Opera Chirurgica”, 1619.
An assemblage of 17th Century orthotic devices, found in…
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Unicorn Drops, ca. 1853.
Anatomical etching, 1779, by Jacques Gamelin.
The Urine Wheel. From Epiphanie Medicorum by Ullrich Pinder,…
Some 16th Century illustrations from a book of anatomical tables…
MS Hunter 364 frontispiece
MS Hunter 364 Table 5
MS Hunter 364 Table 6
MS Hunter 364 Table 3
Some 16th Century illustrations from a book of anatomical tables commissioned by English surgeon John Banister.
The frontispiece depicts Banister delivering a lecture at the Barber-Surgeons’ Hall in London, ca. 1580. The other images depict the nervous system and the skeleton.
“Adult Neanderthaloid skull showing malformation”,…
“A man delivered of a mortal blow who is infuriated like…
“A man delivered of a mortal blow who is infuriated like beast.”
Illustration from “Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting” by Sir Charles Bell, 1806.
Part of the Wellcome Library Collection.
Plate from a 1667 Dutch edition of Pinax Microcosmographicus by Johann Remmelin. Anatomical ‘f
Plate from a 1667 Dutch edition of Pinax Microcosmographicus by Johann Remmelin. Anatomical ‘f
Glossopharyngeal Nerve, Jules Cloquet, 1825, from Manuel d’anatomie descriptive du corps humai