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A man representing the remedy Finidol rescues another man from the clutches of an octopus whose tentacles represent rheumatic and arthritic diseases. Colour lithograph after René Vincent.

An octopus bearing the letters 'AIDS' enveloping the world representing a warning about protecting from AIDS by the Kuwait National AIDS Committee. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

A woman personifying France (?) rescuing a baby from the tentacles of an octopus representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, ca. 1922.

Outlandish : strange foreign bodies / Phillip Warnell with Jean-Luc Nancy.

Surrealism and science: the weird world of Jean Painleve.

On the structure and characters of the octopus ventricosus, Gr. (Sepia octopodia, Pent.), a rare species of octopus from the Firth of Forth / by R. E. Grant.

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Octopuses

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Outlandish : strange foreign bodies / Phillip Warnell with Jean-Luc Nancy.

A man representing the remedy Finidol rescues another man from the clutches of an octopus whose tentacles represent rheumatic and arthritic diseases. Colour lithograph after René Vincent.

A woman personifying France (?) rescuing a baby from the tentacles of an octopus representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, ca. 1922.

Surrealism and science: the weird world of Jean Painleve.

On the structure and characters of the octopus ventricosus, Gr. (Sepia octopodia, Pent.), a rare species of octopus from the Firth of Forth / by R. E. Grant.