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Muscles of the face and neck from Johannes Sobotta's atlas of human anatomy, 1st published in 1904

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2023-03-28

The carotid arteries and interior jugular veins - from Clarke’s text-book on embalming (1885). Credit: https://t.co/F4PK5dqEtS

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2023-01-24

Caesarean section methodology from Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme by J. M. Bourgery (1797-1849)

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2023-01-22

Axial section through the abdomen from Johannes Sobotta's atlas of human anatomy, 1st published in 1904

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2023-01-15

Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833-1890) the German psychiatrist who coined the term agoraphobia

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2022-09-12

The position in the medieval version, shown in a codex of "Chirurgia Rolandina" of Rolando Parmensis (1198-1280), and in a more modern version.

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2022-09-10

The thoracic aorta and it's branches from 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy by Henry Vandyke Carter

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2022-07-21

The mouth from 'The Practical Guide to Health' by Frederick M. Rossiter (1910)

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2022-07-14

Indigestion as depicted by British caricaturist George Cruikshank (1792-1878)

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2022-07-04

Anatomy of the skull from 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy by Henry Vandyke Carter

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2022-06-25

Etching of William Burke murdering Margaret Docherty by Robert Seymour (1829). Burke and William Hare famously committed 16 murders over about ten months in 1828 and sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.

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2022-06-23

Superficial dissection of the left side of the neck, from "An Atlas and Epitome of Operative Aanatomy" by Otto Zuckerkandl

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2022-06-11

The circle of Willis was first described by anatomy pioneer Thomas Willis in his Cerebri anatome of 1664

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2022-03-23

1802 caricature by James Gillray depicting the early controversy surrounding Jenner's vaccination theory

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2022-03-12

Remarkable! 🧠An engraving of the anatomy of the Brain by Charles Bell (1774-1842)

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2021-12-21

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2021-05-17

The French dermatologist Jean Louis Alibert (1768-1837) performing the vaccination against - painted by Constant Joseph Desbordes.

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2020-12-30