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A manual of the dissection of the human body / by Luther Holden.
Luther HoldenDate: 1851
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Two female figures standing on either side of drapery bearing the title of Vesling's Syntagma anatomicum: beyond, the anatomy theatre of the University of Padua. Engraving by Giovanni Georgi, 1647.
Date: 1647Reference: 25026i
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An anatomical dissection in an interior in Guadalupe. Gouache attributed to F. J. Blanco Juste, c. 1934.
Blanco Juste, Francisco J. (Francisco Javier), 1882-Date: 1934Reference: 24571i
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Remarks on the question, are there any circumstances in which the lifting of the dead is justifiable? / by Aliquis.
AliquisDate: 1824
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A seated female figure with a dissected abdomen. Photograph after a woodcut, ca. 1525-1530.
Reference: 26792i
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Capital punishment and the criminal corpse in Scotland, 1740-1834 / Rachel E. Bennett.
Bennett, Rachel E.Date: [2018]
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The London dissector, or, System of dissection, practised in the hospitals and lecture rooms of the Metropolis : explained by the clearest rules, for the use of students : comprising a description of the muscles, vessels, nerves, and viscera, of the human body, as they appear on dissection : with directions for their demonstration.
Scratchley, James, 1784-1849.Date: [1816?]
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A female flap anatomy fugitive sheet, with layered flaps lifted to reveal the anatomy of the thorax and abdomen. Photograph of an engraving, 1683.
Reference: 26829i
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Anno secundo & tertio Gulielmi IV. Regis. Cap. LXXV. An act for regulating schools of anatomy. [1st August 1832.].
Date: 1832
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Ancient anatomists in discussion around a cadaver. Engraving by G. Appelmans, 1674.
Date: 1674Reference: 25162i
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A directory for the dissection of the human body / by John Cleland.
John ClelandDate: 1888
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A directory for the dissection of the human body / by John Cleland.
Cleland, John, 1835-1924.Date: 1876
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Myskotomia, or, The anatomical administration of all the muscles of an humane body, as they arise in dissection : as also an analitical table, reducing each muscle to his use and part / collected for private use, by William Molins ... ; and published for the general good of all practitioners in the said art.
Molins, WilliamDate: 1648
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An anatomist making an incision from the neck through the upper ribs of a skeletal cadaver. He stands behind the cadaver, his right hand cutting with a large blade while his left arm comes round the cadaver's neck as he uses his left hand to pull back the ribs at the incision. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345.
Date: [1926]Reference: 26665i
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The dissection of the body of a miser in the presence of St Anthony of Padua: the miser's heart is found not in his body, but in a casket with his money. Engraving by G. Canuti after Girolamo da Treviso.
Girolamo, da Treviso, 1497-1544.Date: 1838Reference: 24385i
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Dissecting the criminal corpse : staging post-execution punishment in early modern England / Elizabeth T. Hurren.
Elizabeth T. HurrenDate: [2016]
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The dissection of the body of Tom Nero. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1751.
William HogarthDate: 1 February 1751Reference: 907i
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A directory for the dissection of the human body / by John Cleland and John Yule Mackay.
Cleland, John, 1835-1924.Date: 1898
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Anatomical dissection by Andreas Vesalius of a female cadaver, attended by a large crowd of onlookers. Woodcut, 1555.
Date: [1555]Reference: 24561i
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Post-mortem of a woman. Gouache painting, after a fifteenth-century manuscript illustration.
Reference: 24221i
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An anatomical dissection with six onlookers and the dissector who is retracting the skin to reveal the intestines. Engraving, 1705.
Date: 1705Reference: 25331i
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Anleitung zu den Präparirübungen und zur Repetition der descriptiven Anatomie des Menschen / von Julius Budge.
Ludwig Julius BudgeDate: 1866
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The dissector's manual of practical and surgical anatomy / By Erasmus Wilson.
William James Erasmus WilsonDate: 1856
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Handbuch der praktischen Zergliederungskunst als Anleitung zu den Sectionsübungen und zur ausarbeitung Anatomischer Präparate / von Jos. Hyrtl.
Josef HyrtlDate: 1860
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Methodus secandi, oder, Deutliche Anweisung zur anatomischen Betrachtung und Zergliederung des menschlichen Cörpers / verfertiget von Johann Friedrich Cassebohm.
Johann Friedrich CassebohmDate: 1746