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Autopsy

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Forensic Medicine
Anatomy, Pathological
Forensic Medicine
Human dissection
Human dissection
Dead bodies (Law)
Anatomy, Pathological
Dead bodies (Law)

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Images about Autopsy

20 images from works
  • Post-mortem pathology : a manual of post-mortem examinations and the interpretations to be drawn therefrom a practical treatise for students and practitioners / by Henry W. Cattell.
  • The fallibility of the senses: above, justice, fame and deceit; below, doctors conducting an autopsy on a cadaver, surrounded by onlookers. Engraving, 1692.
  • Practisches Handbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin : nach eigenen Erfahrungen / von Johann Ludwig Casper.
  • Doctors investigate a fake suicide. Colour process print by Bertin after J-A. Faivre, c. 1900.
  • Royal Liverpool University Hospital: a pathologist cutting open a body in the mortuary. Drawing by Julia Midgley, 1998.
  • Post-mortem of a woman. Gouache painting, after a fifteenth-century manuscript illustration.
  • A motley crew surround a dead man who is being administered a late enema. Lithograph by Lemoine, c. 1900.
  • Practisches Handbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin : nach eigenen Erfahrungen / von Johann Ludwig Casper.
  • La faune des cadavres : application de l'entomologie à la médecine légale / par P. Mégnin.
  • La faune des cadavres : application de l'entomologie à la médecine légale / par P. Mégnin.

Works from the collections

197 works

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    Les dentistes, détectives de l'histoire / Xavier Riaud ; préambule, Henri Lamendin ; préface, Charles Georget.

    Riaud, Xavier. | Date: 2007
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    Pathologisch-anatomische Diagnostik : nebst Anleitung zur Ausführung von Obductionen sowie von pathologisch-histologischen Untersuchungen / von Johannes Orth.

    Orth, Johannes, 1847-1923. | Date: 1900
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    Sherrington head shots.

    | Date: 1941
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    De l'examen et de l'ouverture des cadavres, sous le rapport médico-légal : thèse soutenue publiquement à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, en présence des juges du concours, le 21 février 1835 / par E. René.

    René, Émile. | Date: 1835
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    What to observe at the bed-side and after death in medical cases / published under the authority of the London Medical Society of Observation.

    | Date: 1853

Related topics

Pathology
Forensic Medicine
History of Medicine
Physicians
Physiology
Chemistry
Pathology
Pathology
Cadaver
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