Mouse embryo

Ribcage, Hodgkin lymphoma patient, 3D printed nylon

A coal mine in the human brain; representing medical assistance by Tomasz Judym to industrial workers. Colour lithograph by Wongel, 1976.

Heart in ribcage, Hodgkin lymphoma patient, 3D printed nylon

A fugitive sheet of a seated female figure, her hand resting on a vase, with her thorax and abdomen dissected to reveal the ribs, vertebral column and pelvis. Photograph after a woodcut, 1611.

A segment of the spine. Line engraving by A. Bell after J. Weitbrecht, 1798.

Vertebral column: two figures showing front and side views. Line engraving by A. Bell after J.-J. Sue, 1798.

A nude figure seen from the back with a spinal column of eighteen vertebrae exposed, with the nerves that radiate from it visible. Process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.

Back pain

1 print : engraving ; platemark 36.7 x 22.5 cm

4 unnumbered pages, xii, 2 unnumbered pages, 214 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

A practical essay on the club-foot, and other distortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to show under what circumstances they are curable, or otherwise : with thirty-one cases that have been successfully treated by the method for which the author has obtained the King's patent, and the specification of the patent for that purpose, as well as for curing distortions of the spine, and every other deformity that can be remedied by mechanical applications / by T. Sheldrake.

Observations on diseases of the spinal marrow / by John Abercrombie.

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Spine

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Ribcage, Hodgkin lymphoma patient, 3D printed nylon

Back pain

Vertebral column: two figures showing front and side views. Line engraving by A. Bell after J.-J. Sue, 1798.

Observations on diseases of the spinal marrow / by John Abercrombie.

Spine

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Ribcage, Hodgkin lymphoma patient, 3D printed nylon

Back pain

Vertebral column: two figures showing front and side views. Line engraving by A. Bell after J.-J. Sue, 1798.

Observations on diseases of the spinal marrow / by John Abercrombie.

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