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Red-figured terracotta krater
Blasengeschwülste, Fig. 44-46: Ansichten eines Papilloms, Fig. 47-48: Ansichten eines Tumors (Kneise 1908: Tafel IX)
A human anatomical figure
Rock carving of reindeer with intestines
From Text to Model: The Guts according to Aristotle
Published in 1597 reprint of a 1565 Yixue gangmu, preserved in Ms sin. 11, part 1, “Enlightened-Hall Diagram of the Viscera”
Stylized heart rendered in sheet gold
Indian anatomical painting
A depiction of a man being attacked and mauled by a jaguar
1682 Specimen Medicinae Sinicae, unknown artist
Anatomy of the gut, anterior view
Apollo the Python-Slayer or Cleveland Apollo
Guido da Vigevano’s Anathomia, Figure 8
Mary Reid Kelley with Patrick Kelley,
This is Offal
(2015)
The Buddha’s Guts
Abdominal Dissection
Representation of a woman with the distribution of the blood vessels and the internal organs (f. 15v)
From Observation to Text: The Guts according to Aristotle
A female ‘open torso’ figurine
Manchu face, Universal body
Major connecting blood vasculature of the body including gut with related vulnerable points
Moxibustion points according to Medical Arts of the Lunar King, Sowa Rigpa intersections with Chinese and Indian medical canons
Red-figured terracotta stamnos
Nkisi power figure: “Mavungu”
Manase Dōsan 曲直瀬道三, Hyakufuku zusetsu
The ‘Piacenza Liver’
Late Classic altar at the site of Xunantunich
Depiction of a mortuary bundle at Teotihuacan
Early Zapotec stone relief of a sacrificial victim with a disembowelled abdomen
Carcinoma colloides peritonei
Athenian red-figure cup attributed to Oltos, examination of the liver of a sacrificial victim
Wangechi Mutu,
Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors (12 works)
(2004–05)
1597 reprint of Wanbing huichun “Diagram of Man’s Side-Body”
Representation of a man with the distribution of the blood vessels and the internal organs (f. 13v)
Black-figured terracotta column-krater
Treatment points for moxibustion, venesection, and surgery
Grotesque figurine
The Gut / Der Darm
A segment of a Mayan hieroglyphic text, highlighting the stylised glyph for ‘heart’
Towing bladder/hunting float.
The Spleen and Stomach
Battle scene and their aftermath
Body metaphors including guts
The diagram of the stomach
The Spleen
Organs of the abdomen
Henry Gray (anatomist) and Henry Vandyke Carter (artist), Fig. 1005, Superior and inferior duodenal fossæ.
Diseases of the Stomach (cancer)
Lehrbuch der urologischen Diagnostik
Depiction of an eagle devouring a human heart at the site of Tula
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