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Epidemics in the valley of Mexico 1520-1820, correlated with sunspots, flood, drought, and famine.

The beauty of diagrams. Part 5, DNA.

The beauty of diagrams. Part 4, Florence Nightingale.

The beauty of diagrams. Part 1, Vitruvian man.

Child's head with large temporal lobes and depressed frontal lobe. Drawing, c. 1900.

Head of "a backward boy" divided into four cerebral lobes: profile. Ink drawing with watercolour, c. 1900.

Two sections of the brain, divided into different lobes and faculties, according to Hollander's system of phrenology. Pen drawing, c. 1902.

A flowering marvel of Peru plant (Mirabilis jalapa) and nine diagrams illustrating refraction of light. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1817.

Left profile of a head showing depressed frontal lobes. Drawing, c. 1900.

A female brain, sectioned vertically: side view. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

Phrenological chart; with design of head containing symbols of the phrenological 'faculties'. Etching after O.S. Fowler (?).

The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the part associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with memory for numbers. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

Horizontal and vertical sections through a porter brewery mash tun, and its constituent parts. Engraving by J. Moffat, c. 1830, after J. Farey.

Twelve human profiles in outline, sectioned to show their disproportion. Drawing, c. 1794, after A. Dürer.

Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.

Jambūdvīpa, the central continent of the middle world in Jain cosmology. Watercolour.

Bloodletting points and moxa points. Ink drawing, Tibet.

The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the parts associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with the faculties of external perception and its memory. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

Diagram of the brain for a phrenological textbook. Pen drawing, c. 1902.

Two human profiles in outline, joined by lines; showing their mutual appropriateness for friendship. Drawing, c. 1789.

The human brain, divided according to Bernard Hollander's system of phrenology. Process print with pen and ink, c. 1902.

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Bloodletting points and moxa points. Ink drawing, Tibet.

The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the parts associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with the faculties of external perception and its memory. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

Diagram of the brain for a phrenological textbook. Pen drawing, c. 1902.

Two human profiles in outline, joined by lines; showing their mutual appropriateness for friendship. Drawing, c. 1789.

The human brain, divided according to Bernard Hollander's system of phrenology. Process print with pen and ink, c. 1902.

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Bloodletting points and moxa points. Ink drawing, Tibet.

The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the parts associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with the faculties of external perception and its memory. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

Diagram of the brain for a phrenological textbook. Pen drawing, c. 1902.

Two human profiles in outline, joined by lines; showing their mutual appropriateness for friendship. Drawing, c. 1789.

The human brain, divided according to Bernard Hollander's system of phrenology. Process print with pen and ink, c. 1902.

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