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Parents pass their sick child through the hole of a tree, believed to possess healing powers.
Plate I. Patient with nodular leprosy.
Plate III. Patient with tuberous leprosy.
Extracted from Leprosy In Its Clinical & Pathological Aspects by Hansen & Looft, John Wright and Co, Bristol, 1895.
The construction of the hand
A lithograph by J.A. Vinter, 1868
3 layers of the hand, the bones, muscles and skin.
VIII Snakes
Eight snakes, including a reticulated python, a slow worm, a thirst snake, a Russell’s viper and a mythical two-headed serpent.
Engraving, ca. 1778
MRI of a pumpkin
Collage of multiple cross sections through a single pumpkin. These images are digitally coloured.
Wax anatomical head with exposed brain
The layers of this wax anatomical model of a human head has been peeled back to reveal the underlying structure of the brain and the meninges (the protective covering of the brain). The model may have been used to teach medical students the anatomy of the brain or have been made for medical exhibitions open to the general public.
Credit: Science Museum, London
A decaying demon sculpture in a mausoleum in Poland. It was used in a horror movie prop and left here.
Methods of surgery to correct strabismus, a condition when the eyes are not aligned with each other.
