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Mind & Body
Separate and yet interdependent, the two halves of our existence.
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Röntgen's first x-ray
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Late 19th century wax portrait busts by Karl Henning
Photograph of enlargement of the fingers
The heart as a seed of a tree
A bovine heart, great vessels and bronchial tree
Illustration in Harvey's Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
Annie Cattrell's sculptures of the human brain at work
Open-heart operation at Papworth Hospital
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1823 illustration by Sir Charles Bell
Photograph showing side view of human brain
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Digitally enhanced MRI scan of the head
Late 16th century French image of trepanning
19th century skull for the study of phrenology
18th century illustration showing arteries and viscera
Taken from an executed French criminal
16th century instructional aid
17th century Hebrew illustration comparing the human body to a house
Sacrificial knife dating from 1400-1521
X-ray of pacemaker implanted in the body
Showing the connections between heart and brain
A tube used to ease the flow of blood in the arteries
20th century Valentine card
Watercolour showing a scene from the Ramayana
Quirks of brain damage that show us how the brain works
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Once a memory is in our heads, how reliable is it?
Genetic factors that affect our physical appearance
How the images in the Wellcome Images Award were made
Chalk sketch from a course in anatomical drawing
Students and teachers dissect a cadaver on an anatomy table
Striking figures from an anatomical text book
Based on 'Mansur's Anatomy'
Great Windmill Street, London