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The nervous system. Engraving, 1686.

The brain, in right profile with the glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves and, to the right, a view of the base of the brain. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.

Nerves(?) of the neck and chest: six figures including a dissected human neck and chest, details of fine structures, and the leg and torso of a dissected frog. Line engraving by G. Wooding (?), ca. 1790.

Spine and nerves: cross-section showing the nerves of the spine emanating to the thorax, abdomen and pelvis. Line engraving by G. Wooding, 1790.

Nervous system: eight figures, including cross sections of the head and brain, the mouth and the skin. Line engraving by Kirkwood & Son, 1813.

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

Ecorché figures showing the nerves: front and back views, with an eyeball. Coloured line engraving by J. Pass after W. Hewson, 1796.

An arrangement of the spinal nerves. Photolithograph, 1940, after a woodcut, 1543.

Organs of sense: fifteen figures including dissections of the tongue, ear, eye, brain and spine. Line engraving by J. Taylor after F. Birnie, 1789.

Nerves: four figures, showing front and back views of an écorché, and details of nerves in the arm liable to injury in bleeding. Line engraving by Campbell, 1816/1821.

The nervous system of the human body : embracing the papers delivered to the Royal Society on the subject of the nerves / by Charles Bell.

The central nervous system: two microscopic images of nerves (?). Colour lithograph by F. Reichhold, 1895.

Experimental researches, illustrative of the functional oneness, unity, and diffusion, of nervous action : in opposition to the anatomical assumption, of four sets of nerves, and a fourfold set of functions, and transmitted impressions : with a brief exposition of the philosophy of vivisection, and of sensation / by Bennet Dowler, M.D., of New-Orleans (Corresponding Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia).

Manuel pour l'étude des maladies du système nerveux / par le dr Maurice de Fleury.

The spinal cord: two cross-sections. Wood engraving with ink by M. Toller (?), 1895.

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The nervous system of the human body : embracing the papers delivered to the Royal Society on the subject of the nerves / by Charles Bell.

The central nervous system: two microscopic images of nerves (?). Colour lithograph by F. Reichhold, 1895.

Manuel pour l'étude des maladies du système nerveux / par le dr Maurice de Fleury.

The spinal cord: two cross-sections. Wood engraving with ink by M. Toller (?), 1895.