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Skeleton: seen from the front. Line engraving by Campbell, 1816/1821.

Bones: six figures, including skeleton seen from front and back, cross section and surface of a bone, and a hand and foot. Line engraving by Kirkwood & Sons, 1813.

A man and woman, semi-nude but bedecked with jewellery, accompanied by Death, are kneeling on a representation of the poor: in the background are factories with smoking chimneys. Lithograph after H. Schwaiger, ca. 1900.

Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.

A surgeon treating an irate patient's wounded leg in his surgery assisted by two attendants. Engraving.

A classical courtyard filled with natural philosophers, scientists and artists. Engraving after S. Le Clerc.

A doctor holding death at bay from his patient: illustrated by him squirting a syringe at a skeletal figure entering via the window. Line engraving by N. Goodnight, 1787, after S. Collings.

A ghostly skeleton trying to strangle a sick child; representing diphtheria. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

John Abernethy: certificate showing a skeleton and an écorché figure holding aloft a vignette of Galen finding a human skeleton. Sugar-ground etching by J. G. Strutt, before 1821.

A philosopher in his study, reading a book containing a print of a skeleton. Etching by J.A. von Prenner, 1728, after C. Paudiss.

Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.

Neurofibromatosis and Recklingshausen's disease

Tabula sceleti féminini juncta descriptione / [Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring].

Male skeleton seen from the front, with left arm extended: two figures (one an outline drawing). Line engraving, ca. 1850.

Don't die young. Series 2, part 7, The bones, muscles & joints.

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Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.

Neurofibromatosis and Recklingshausen's disease

Tabula sceleti féminini juncta descriptione / [Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring].

Male skeleton seen from the front, with left arm extended: two figures (one an outline drawing). Line engraving, ca. 1850.

Don't die young. Series 2, part 7, The bones, muscles & joints.