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Edgar Ashworth Underwood

Medical historian, 1899-1980

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Field of work
Public Health
History of Medicine
Medicine

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Images from the collections

Images by Edgar Ashworth Underwood

1 image from works
  • Tombstones recording the deaths of Benjamin Jesty and his wife Elizabeth Jesty. Photograph by E.A. Underwood, 1956.

Images featuring Edgar Ashworth Underwood

8 images from works
  • E. Ashworth Underwood (centre) with visiting students from Bonn University. Photograph, 1952.
  • Johannes Steudel (left) and E. Ashworth Underwood (right). Photograph, 1952.
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: the Director presenting an umbrella to A. D. Lacaille, the museum's archaeologist, on his retirement in 1959. Photograph.
  • Edgar Ashworth Underwood. Photograph.
  • Edgar Ashworth Underwood. Photograph.
  • Edgar Ashworth Underwood. Photograph.
  • HM Queen Elizabeth II with E.A. Underwood. Photograph by the Associated Press Ltd., 1962.
  • The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: the Director, E. A. Underwood, and museum's archaeologist, A. D. Lacaille, in the Director's Room. Photograph.

Works from the collections

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28 works

    • Books

    Edward Jenner : the man and his work / [Edgar Ashworth Underwood and A.M.G. Campbell].

    Underwood, E. Ashworth, 1899-1980. | Date: 1967
    • Books

    Guide to an exhibition illustrating the story of pharmacy / by E. Ashworth Underwood.

    Underwood, E. Ashworth, 1899-1980. | Date: 1955
    • Books

    Reconstructions of early pharmacies / [E. Ashworth Underwood].

    Underwood, E. Ashworth, 1899-1980. | Date: 1959
    • Books
    • Online

    Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating the medicine of the aboriginal peoples in the British Commonwealth / with an introduction by E. Ashworth Underwood.

    Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. | Date: 1952
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    The healers: the doctor, then and now / by Kurt Pollak in collaboration with E. Ashworth Underwood.

    Pollak, Kurt, 1919- | Date: 1968
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Frequent collaborators

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Charles Singer

Related topics

History of Medicine
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
United Kingdom

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