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Human Body

Entire structure of a human organism

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Images referencing Human Body

74 images from works
  • A young, naked man with a wreathed head: back view. Engraving by J.D. Herz after himself, c. 1732.
  • The purple island, or the isle of man: together with Piscatorie eclogs and other poeticall miscellanies / By P.F.
  • Two physicians applying the method of cauterisation to clearly defined points of the back and side of two patients. Pen drawing after an Anglo Saxon tenth century manuscript.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Moscow: people swimming and sunbathing at Cerebrensky public baths. Etching by M.G. Eichler, 1799, after G. de la Barthe, 1796.
  • Two human figures illustrating the reduction of dislocations of the foramen ovale and the dorsum ilii. Coloured pen drawing by G.E. Blenkins, 1831.
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • A surgeon applying a cautery iron to clearly defined points on a woman's lower abdomen (indicating spleen?). Pen drawing after a tenth century manuscript.
  • The anatomy of human bodies. Comprehending the most modern discoveries and curiosities in that art. To which is added a particular treatise of the small-pox and measles. Together with several practical observations and experienced cures. With 139 figures curiously cut in copper, representing the several parts and operations. Written in Latin by Isbrand de Diemerbroeck ... Translated from the last and most correct and full edition of the same / by William Salmon.
  • Six cross-sections through a foot. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.
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Works from the collections

474 works

    • Books

    This mortal coil : the human body in history and culture / Fay Bound Alberti.

    | Fay Bound-Alberti | Date: 2016
    • Books

    Namatu uṭal / Mā. Ēkāmparanātaṉ.

    | Ēkāmparanātaṉ, Mā. | Date: 1959
    • Books

    Bodies, sex and desire from the Renaissance to the present / edited by Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan.

    | Date: 2011
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    Alive : the ultimate pop-up human body book / [written by Anita Ganeri ; paper engineer: Iain Smyth].

    | Anita Ganeri | Date: 2007
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    The chemical elements and man : measurements, perspectives, applications / by E. I. Hamilton.

    | E. I. Hamilton | Date: [1979]
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Related topics

Body Image
Men
Masculinity
Anatomy
Human anatomy
Hand-to-hand fighting
Physiology
Superheroes
Surgical Instruments
Medicine in the Arts

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