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Ear

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Images about Ear

51 images from works
  • Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere : morphologisch-histologische Studien / von Gustaf Retzius.
  • Designs of ears and eyes. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • The anatomy of the human ear, illustrated by a series of engravings, of the natural size with a treatise on the diseases of that organ. The causes of deafness, and their proper treatment / By the late John Cunningham Saunders.
  • An ear filled with a bulging brick wall representing the problems of not listening to the facts about AIDS; advertising the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A man from Easter island (Rapa Nui), with elongated ears, encountered by Captain Cook on his second voyage, 1772-1775. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1777, after W. Hodges.
  • Tractatus de organo auditus continens structuram, usum et morbos omnium auris partium / per Dn. Du Verney ... è Gallico Latinè versus.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Africa: a woman with scarification on her chest and arms, and with plugs in her ear-lobes and lower lip. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 19--.
  • An ear filled with a bulging brick wall representing the problems of not listening to the facts about AIDS; advertising the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere : morphologisch-histologische Studien / von Gustaf Retzius.
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Works from the collections

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    Surgery of the ear / by George E. Shambaugh, Jr.

    George E. Shambaugh | Date: 1959
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    Thèses présentées et publiquement soutenues à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 4er août 1838 / par Pierre-Jules Reynes.

    Reynes, Pierre Jules. | Date: 1838
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    Injuries of the eyes, nose, throat and ears / by Andrew Maitland Ramsay [and others].

    Andrew Maitland Ramsay | Date: 1915
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    Abbildungen des menschlichen Hoerorganes / [Von] Samuel Thomas Soemmerring.

    Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring | Date: 1806
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    Die Misbildungen des Gaumens und ihr Zusammenhang mit Nase, Auge und Ohr / von Fritz Danziger.

    Danziger, Fritz. | Date: 1900
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Related topics

Ear Diseases
Eye
Nose
Hearing
Ophthalmology
Disease
Deafness
Eye
Foot
Education, Medical

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