Images Dated 7th December 2011

Phrenological model of personality traits

Phrenology model of the locations of the "various organs of mind" in the human head, c. 1890.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Seljuk Turks defeated at Dorylaeum, First Crusade

Crusaders under Godfrey of Bouillon, defeating Muslim forces of Sultan Kilij Arslan at Dorylaeum in Asia Minor, 1097.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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First use of anesthesia in surgery, 1846

First public demonstration of surgical anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1846.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustratioin

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