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Atlas d'anatomie topographique du cerveau et des localisations cérébrales / par E. Gavoy.
Gavoy, Émile Alexandre, 1836-Date: 1882
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Sur le crâne remarquable d'une idiote de 21 ans avec des observations sur le basiotique, le squamosal, le quadratum, le quadrato-jugal, le jugal, le postfrontal postérieur et le postfrontal antérieur de l'homme : communication, faite à la Société d'Anthropologie de Bruxelles, dans la séance du 26 février 1883 / par Paul Albrecht.
Albrecht, Paul, 1851-1894.Date: 1883
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Über die Bedeutung der Schädelknochen : ein Programm beim Antritt der Professur an der Gesammt-Universität zu Jena / von Dr. Oken.
Oken, Lorenz, 1779-1851.Date: 1807
Ephemera
Whalebone walking-stick with skull pommel in ivory with green glass eyes, once owned by Charles Darwin / Wellcome Library, Wellcome Collection.
Date: 2009
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A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
Maton, Bartholomaeus, 1643 or 1646-Date: 1787Reference: 21154i
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Some account of Dr. Gall's new theory of physiognomy founded upon the anatomy & physiology of the brain, with the critical strictures of C. W. Hufeland.
Robinson, Henry Crabb, 1775-1867.Date: 1807
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A skeleton (representing Death), smoking a cigarette and offering a cigarette from a pack; implying that smoking causes death. Screen print (?), 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 980034i
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A profile of a man bisected with a curve for measuring the brain, skulls of a Turk (top right), a Georgian woman (bottom left) and a Caribbean (bottom right). Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.
Date: 1824Reference: 35087i
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Conformation osseuse de la tête chez l'homme et les vertébrés / par Camille Bertrand.
Bertrand, Camille, active 1862Date: 1862
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M0011868: Reproduction of a page from Wilfred Edward Le Gros Clark's History of the Primates, 1962, illustrating a reconstruction of the skull of Pithecanthropus
Date: 1951Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/105/69
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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A surgeon treating a patient's foot, in the background another surgeon is examining a patient in a surgery. Lithograph after A. Brouwer.
Brouwer, Adriaen, 1605 or 1606-1638.Reference: 22678i
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The asymmetry of the occipital region of the brain and skull / by W.E. Le Gros Clark.
Clark, Wilfrid E. Le Gros (Wilfrid Edward Le Gros), 1895-1971.Date: [1934?]
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A female brain, sectioned vertically: side view. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
Date: 1901Reference: 28022i
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Johann Jessenius à Jessen, half-length, resting his right hand on a skull. Woodcut, 1601 [?].
Reference: 4872i
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A skull resting on sheet music. Line engraving with etching by J.F. Mutilana.
Reference: 46787i
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Significance of the Swanscombe skull / [W.E. Le G. C].
Clark, Wilfrid E. Le Gros (Wilfrid Edward Le Gros), 1895-1971.Date: [1938?]
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The skull of the painter Raphael: frontal view. Lithograph by Engelmann after C.P. Mazer.
Engelmann, G. (Godefroy), 1788-1839Date: [1835?]Reference: 28079i
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Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.
Pogorelʹskiĭ, S., active approximately 1920.Date: [1920?]Reference: 535994i
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M0006134: Anterior aspect of an Incan skull, showing trephinning
Date: 09 March 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/51/33
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.
T., I., active 1826.Date: 1826Reference: 21828i
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A child with two skulls joined together at the vertex. Engraving by J. Basire.
Reference: 37373i
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St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford: crypt showing bones and skulls. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck, 1813, after F. Nash.
Nash, Frederick, 1782-1856.Date: 1 July 1813Reference: 21361i
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Skull of a soldier: frontal view. Lithograph, 1835.
Date: 1835Reference: 28075i
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An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden anatomy theatre. Engraving by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.
Gheyn, Jacob de, 1565-1629.Date: 1615Reference: 24757i
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A spoof packet of cigarettes called 'Hallo partner" with a skull as a logo, reminding that smoking causes death. Colour screen print, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 748976i

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Atlas d'anatomie topographique du cerveau et des localisations cérébrales / par E. Gavoy.

Über die Bedeutung der Schädelknochen : ein Programm beim Antritt der Professur an der Gesammt-Universität zu Jena / von Dr. Oken.

Whalebone walking-stick with skull pommel in ivory with green glass eyes, once owned by Charles Darwin / Wellcome Library, Wellcome Collection.

A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.

Some account of Dr. Gall's new theory of physiognomy founded upon the anatomy & physiology of the brain, with the critical strictures of C. W. Hufeland.

A skeleton (representing Death), smoking a cigarette and offering a cigarette from a pack; implying that smoking causes death. Screen print (?), 19--.

A profile of a man bisected with a curve for measuring the brain, skulls of a Turk (top right), a Georgian woman (bottom left) and a Caribbean (bottom right). Coloured engraving by H. Adlard, 1824.

Conformation osseuse de la tête chez l'homme et les vertébrés / par Camille Bertrand.

M0011868: Reproduction of a page from Wilfred Edward Le Gros Clark's History of the Primates, 1962, illustrating a reconstruction of the skull of Pithecanthropus

A surgeon treating a patient's foot, in the background another surgeon is examining a patient in a surgery. Lithograph after A. Brouwer.

The asymmetry of the occipital region of the brain and skull / by W.E. Le Gros Clark.

A female brain, sectioned vertically: side view. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

Johann Jessenius à Jessen, half-length, resting his right hand on a skull. Woodcut, 1601 [?].

A skull resting on sheet music. Line engraving with etching by J.F. Mutilana.

Significance of the Swanscombe skull / [W.E. Le G. C].

The skull of the painter Raphael: frontal view. Lithograph by Engelmann after C.P. Mazer.

Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.

M0006134: Anterior aspect of an Incan skull, showing trephinning

A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.

A child with two skulls joined together at the vertex. Engraving by J. Basire.

St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford: crypt showing bones and skulls. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck, 1813, after F. Nash.

Skull of a soldier: frontal view. Lithograph, 1835.

An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden anatomy theatre. Engraving by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.

A spoof packet of cigarettes called 'Hallo partner" with a skull as a logo, reminding that smoking causes death. Colour screen print, ca. 2000.