From Bauhin Caspar and Theodor de Bry’s Theatrum anatomicum (1605).
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Category: Images
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From Lady Caroline Catherine Wilkerson’s Weeds and wild flowers : their uses, legends, and literature (1858).
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From Shirley Hibberd and F. Edward Hulme’s Familiar garden flowers (1879).
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From Anne Pratt’s Wild flowers Volume II (1893). Volume I is available here.
#PageFrights Is Here!
So lets start with this charming figure from JH Brown’s 1865 Spectropia; or, Surprising spectral illusions. Showing ghosts everywhere, and of any colour.
Images from the Library
From Alfred Moquin-Tandon’s Le monde de la mer (1866).
Images from the Library
From John Hill’s The useful family-herbal : or, an account of all those English plants which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience … (1789).
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
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From Henry J. Garrigues’ A text-book of the diseases of women (1896).
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
Images Galore!
Since the Internet Archive is down for maintenance on this lovely January morning, why not take a stroll through our image back catalogue? We’ve posted over 200 images to date! What’s your favorite?
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From Emil Harless’ Lehrbuch der plastischen anatomie : enthaltend die gesetze fur organische Bildung und kunstlerische Darstellung der menschlichen Gestalt im allgemeinen und in den einzelnen Situationen (1856-1858).
And this is our last post of 2015! The blog and Twitter feed will be shuttered until January 4th. We hope you all have a lovely mid-winter break and we’ll be back with you in 2016!