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Concept

Nerves

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  • Torso: cross-section indicating the nerves, organs, arteries and bones, in various colours. Coloured line engraving by H. Mutlow, 1808.
  • The nervous system. Engraving, 1686.
  • Cross-section of skull in profile view, showing the intercranial nerves and vessels. Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar after Leonardo da Vinci, 1651.
  • 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.
  • Portal vein (fig. 2); spinal cord (figs 3-4) after Huber. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
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Catalogue

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    Torso of a woman: cross-section indicating the nerves, organs, arteries and bones, in various colours. Coloured line engraving by H. Mutlow, 1808.

    | Date: Sept 1st 1808 | Reference: 561441i
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    The nervous system of the human body. Engraving by J. Wandelaar, 1726, after a woodcut, 1543.

    | Date: [1725] | Reference: 33659i
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    Myographiae comparatae specimen, or, A comparative description of all the muscles in a man, and in a quadruped / By James Douglas.

    Douglas, James, 1675-1742. | Date: 1775
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    Portal vein (fig. 2); spinal cord (figs 3-4) after Huber. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.

    | Reference: 35453i
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    Gehirn und Nerven : Unser Körper Unsere Gesundheit.

    | Date: [2001]
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