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A man behind a woman who is combing her hair; representing the sense of sight. Engraving.

Delilah caresses the sleeping Samson as she sets her barber to work. Engraving by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.

A seated barber shaving the back of a man's neck; another customer examines himself in a mirror and an attendant looks on. Coloured aquatint, 1800, after C. Gold.

A face with hair on end expressing despair. Crayon Manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after C. Le Brun.

A young woman posing naked in a photographic studio, lying on her front on a piece of fabric, a goblet and jug beside her. Stereo photograph, ca.1900.

A barber shaving a seated man's head. Watercolour painting.

Christ carries his cross to Golgotha. Etching by H. Kipp after J.F. Overbeck, 1846.

Bob Foster, the Cambridge flying barber, shaving a student. Coloured stipple engraving after I. Bearblock, of King's College.

Head of a man with hair raised, expressing despair. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.

A woman sitting in a chair making gestures of pain while a hair-dresser combs her back hair and a maidservant combs a tress pulled forward over her face: in the left background a man having his hair combed, he too looks pained. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 1807.

A woman wearing bodystocking posing in a photographic studio.

Skin, hair & nails : keep your skin, hair, and nails looking their best / Wild Oats Markets.

The breast dissected and the nipple and areola and a hair as viewed under a microscope. Engraving, 1686.

Neurofibromatosis and Recklingshausen's disease

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A woman wearing bodystocking posing in a photographic studio.

A face with hair on end expressing despair. Crayon Manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after C. Le Brun.

Skin, hair & nails : keep your skin, hair, and nails looking their best / Wild Oats Markets.

The breast dissected and the nipple and areola and a hair as viewed under a microscope. Engraving, 1686.

Neurofibromatosis and Recklingshausen's disease