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    US National Library of Medicine

    The National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. Its collections include more than seven million books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs, and images on medicine and related sciences including some of the world's oldest and rarest works. Its Digital Projects section houses many online collections of material, including the wonderful "Historical Anatomies on the Web", and also curated online exhibitions. (Wikipedia)

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    *Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth* (1833)
    Books / 
    Science & Medicine

    Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth (1833)

    Law and Ordure: *Scatalogic Rites of All Nations* (1891)
    Books / 
    Customs & Culture, Food, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Law and Ordure: Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891)

    *A Treatise Concerning the Properties and Effects of Coffee* (1792)
    Books / 
    Drugs, Food, Science & Medicine

    A Treatise Concerning the Properties and Effects of Coffee (1792)

    *Shadows from the Walls of Death* (1874)
    Books / 
    Design & Typography, Science & Medicine, Death

    Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874)

    London's Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics during the Great Plague (1665)
    Books / 
    Death, Science & Medicine

    London's Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics during the Great Plague (1665)

    George Mayerle’s Eye Test Chart (ca. 1907)
    Images / 
    Science & Medicine, Design & Typography

    George Mayerle’s Eye Test Chart (ca. 1907)

    Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing
    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing

    Reed Bontecou’s Portraits of Wounded Soldiers (1865)
    Images / 
    Science & Medicine, War

    Reed Bontecou’s Portraits of Wounded Soldiers (1865)

    Plastic Reconstruction of the Face (1918)
    Film / 
    Science & Medicine, War, Technology

    Plastic Reconstruction of the Face (1918)

    The Belly of a Horse (1820)
    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    The Belly of a Horse (1820)

    Johann Remmelin's Anatomical ‘Flap’ Book (1667)
    Images / 
    Science & Medicine

    Johann Remmelin's Anatomical ‘Flap’ Book (1667)

    The Hasheesh Eater (1857)
    Books / 
    Science & Medicine

    The Hasheesh Eater (1857)

    Jehan Cousin’s *Livre de Pourtraiture* (1608)
    Images / 
    Geometry & Diagrams

    Jehan Cousin’s Livre de Pourtraiture (1608)

    16th-century Prosthetics (1564)
    Images / 
    Science & Medicine, Technology

    16th-century Prosthetics (1564)

    Kaishi Hen, an 18th-Century Japanese Anatomical Atlas
    Images / 
    Science & Medicine

    Kaishi Hen, an 18th-Century Japanese Anatomical Atlas

    William Cheselden’s Osteographia (1733)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, Death

    William Cheselden’s Osteographia (1733)

    Plates from Spiegel’s *De formato foetu liber singularis* (1626)
    Images / 
    Science & Medicine

    Plates from Spiegel’s De formato foetu liber singularis (1626)

    Giambattista della Porta’s De humana physiognomonia libri IIII (1586)
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    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, People, Emotion & Expression

    Giambattista della Porta’s De humana physiognomonia libri IIII (1586)

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