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Viscera, heart, brain and blood vessels: six figures, including two views of a dissected torso. Line engraving by Heath, after Walker, 1806.

Anatomy, medicine and botany; top to bottom, arteries of the stomach, sternum, tarantula, scorpion; bottom right, sassafras. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.

A torso, dissected to reveal the liver, stomach and intestines. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543, after A. Vesalius.

A disgruntled portly man standing next to a town water pump holding a ladle and rubbing his stomach as if in pain. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1831.

A grossly obese man supporting his stomach in a wheelbarrow, a young fop looks on. Etching by S. Ireland, 178-, after J.H. Mortimer.

Nerves of the liver, gall bladder, pancreas and stomach. Line engraving (by Wooding?), 1789.

The viscera, after Haller, showing the lobes of the liver, the stomach, the kidneys, the spleen, etc. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

The stomach. Engraving, 1686, the third and fourth figures after G. de Lairesse, 1685.

The digestive system. Engraving, 18th century.

A soldier complaining of pain in his abdomen to a corporal, the corporal retorts that he has a stomach - only officers have abdomens. Wood engraving by Gunning King, 1912.

An empty abdomen during a six-organ transplant. Watercolour by Sir Roy Calne, 1994.

A physician, enema in hand, quotes Hippocrates on the importance of the stomach in the 'administration' of the body; a green-hued patient cowers behind. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by D.T. de Losques, 1910.

Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de ventris in reliquum corpus potestate; / quam,... eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Henricus Duncan,... iv Id. Julii, hora locoque solitis.

Chirurgia stomacului / [de] Ion Turai [şi] Emil Papahagi.

L'oesophago-jejuno-gastrostomose" de Roux (1906) / S. Ostini.

Istori︠︡ia razviti︠︡ia khirurgii zheludka v Rossii v XIX-XX vv. / D.A. Balalykin.

Faecal vomiting and anti-peristalsis

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Stomach

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Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de ventris in reliquum corpus potestate; / quam,... eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Henricus Duncan,... iv Id. Julii, hora locoque solitis.

Chirurgia stomacului / [de] Ion Turai [şi] Emil Papahagi.

L'oesophago-jejuno-gastrostomose" de Roux (1906) / S. Ostini.

Istori︠︡ia razviti︠︡ia khirurgii zheludka v Rossii v XIX-XX vv. / D.A. Balalykin.

Faecal vomiting and anti-peristalsis

Stomach

Images from the collections

Images referencing Stomach

Works from the collections

Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de ventris in reliquum corpus potestate; / quam,... eruditorum examini subjicit Gulielmus Henricus Duncan,... iv Id. Julii, hora locoque solitis.

Chirurgia stomacului / [de] Ion Turai [şi] Emil Papahagi.

L'oesophago-jejuno-gastrostomose" de Roux (1906) / S. Ostini.

Istori︠︡ia razviti︠︡ia khirurgii zheludka v Rossii v XIX-XX vv. / D.A. Balalykin.

Faecal vomiting and anti-peristalsis

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