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Two images of the backs of women with smallp

La Culture Physique, 1908, Ecole Desbonnet

Brown jumping spider (unknown species)

Body shapes, female

The human thorax

Pseudo-Galen, Anathomia; WMS 290

Types os superb physical manhood who have been developed to this high degree of physical fitness and resistant power to disease by the very methods I am advocating in this book, and have been advocating consistently all over the world for the past quarter of a century. This is the type of youthfull manhood that we could and should have had if my advice had been taken and followed, as recruits, instead of such weedy specimens of humanity as shown in the previous picture.

Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)

A women during pregnancy

Tick

Structure of human head and brain

Blue Bee (unknown species)

Honey bee (unknown species)

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Works from the collections

Structure of human head and brain

Pseudo-Galen, Anathomia; WMS 290

Blue Bee (unknown species)

Honey bee (unknown species)

Brown jumping spider (unknown species)

Body

Images from the collections

Images referencing Body

Works from the collections

Structure of human head and brain

Pseudo-Galen, Anathomia; WMS 290

Blue Bee (unknown species)

Honey bee (unknown species)

Brown jumping spider (unknown species)

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