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Anatomical specimens

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  • Elizabeth Brownrigg: her skeleton displayed in a niche at Surgeons' Hall, Old Bailey, London. Engraving.
  • Mr. Brookes's celebrated museum and theatre of anatomy : Mr. George Robins has the pleasure to announce to the medical world, that he has been honoured by the instructions of Joshua Brookes ... to sell by auction, on Thursday, the 3rd of July, and the 20 following days (Sunday and Monday always excepted) at the Theatre of Anatomy, in Blenheim-Street, London, the anatomical and zoological museum of theis learned anatomist / George Robins.
  • The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London: the interior of the Hunterian Museum. Coloured engraving by E. Radclyffe after T. H. Shepherd.
  • Muscles of the face and neck. Engraving, 1686.
  • A rachitic skeleton, measuring two feet two inches in length, seen from the front and the back. Engraving, 1749.
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Catalogue

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    Catalogue of anatomical objects : constituting the main part of the museum of Professor Cleland, handed over by agreement for the use of the Anatomical Department to the University of Glasgow.

    | Date: 1910
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    Catalogue of the Pathological Museum / compiled by J. Coats.

    Western Infirmary, Glasgow. | Date: 1885
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    Directions for preserving animals and parts of animals for examination / [by John Hunter].

    Hunter, John, 1728-1793. | Date: [1790?]
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    Histoire des embaumements et de la préparation des pièces d'anatomie normale, d'anatomie pathologique et d'histoire naturelle, suivie de procédés nouveaux / Par J.-N. Gannal.

    Gannal, J.-N. (Jean-Nicolas), 1791-1852. | Date: 1841
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    Catalogue of the osteological portion of specimens contained in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Cambridge / [compiled] by W. Clark.

    University of Cambridge. Anatomical Museum. | Date: 1862
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