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Illustration of apparatus designed by Polaillon published in Witkowski, G.-J.: Histoire des accouchements chez tous les peuples, Paris : G. Steinheil, 1887

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0017633-M0017769

1 photograph sheet film negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0017633: Two gourds containing curare, South America

M0017634: Illustrations of the front and side views of a Thames pick of flint

M0017635: Illustration of the side and end views of a hammer made of antler

M0017636: Great Ormond Street extension, London 1893

M0017637: Dr. Mead's Library, Great Ormond Street, London

M0017638: Great Ormond Street Hospital, London

M0017639: Clarence Ward at Great Ormond Street Hospital, 1912.

M0017640: Exterior of the ward block of the modern Great Ormond Street Hospital, 1952

M0017641: Six Ancient Egyptian figures of Imhotep

M0017642: Six Ancient Egyptian figures of Imhotep

M0017643: Six Ancient Egyptian figures of Imhotep

M0017644: Six Ancient Egyptian figures of Imhotep

M0017645: Six Ancient Egyptian figures of Imhotep

M0017646: Seven Ancient Egyptian figures of Imhotep

M0017647: Seven Ancient Egyptian figures of Imhotep

M0017648: Six Ancient Egyptian figures of Imhotep

M0017649: Ivory plaque with inscription, Ancient Egyptian

M0017650: Three statues of Ancient Egyptian deities: Ptah, Isis nursing Horus and Imhotep

M0017651: Three statues of Ancient Egyptian deities: Harpocrates, Amen Re and Imhotep

M0017652: Statues of Ancient Egyptian deities Amen Re and Isis

M0017655: Display of Ancient Egyptian figures of Imhotep at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

M0017656: Display of Ancient Egyptian figures of Imhotep at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

M0017657: Display of Ancient Egyptian figures of Imhotep at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

M0017658: Display of Ancient Egyptian figures of Imhotep at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

M0017661: Alexander the Great and his physician Philip of Acarnania

M0017662: Votive offering showing the divine healing by Amphiaraos, oracle of Oropos

M0017663: Bust of Hippocrates (c.460-c.370 B.C.)

M0017664: Portrait of Antonio Maria Valsalva (1666-1723)

M0017665: Traction hook and ring knife from Pompei

M0017666: Examples of "Pes grypii", an instrument for the extraction of the child's head during childbirth

M0017667: Instruments for cutting the bones of the foetus

M0017668: Illustration of "Pes grypii", an instrument for the extraction of the child's head during childbirth

M0017669: Illustration of a midwife holding a newborn baby by the head with forceps, 1887

M0017670: Illustration of "Succession hippocratique", c.1891

M0017671: Illustration of a childbirth position, Italy, 16th century

M0017672: Illustration of a childbirth postition, Italy, 16th century

M0017674: Illustration of instruments used in caesarian and symphysiotomy procedures

M0017675: Illustration of apparatus for preventing haemorrhage after delivery by Chassagny

M0017676: A Read's Enema Syringe, c.1800

M0017677: Right hand of a patient with pellagra, 1913

M0017678: Right hand of a patient with pellagra, 1913

M0017679: Orographical map of North and Central Italy showing the approximate distribution of pellagra

M0017680: Portrait of Alfred Clark (1885-1941)

M0017681: Portrait of Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915)

M0017682: Diagram of Ehrlich's "side chain theory", 1898-1901

M0017683: Section of John Snow's map of cholera in Soho, 1854

M0017684: Title pages from two editions of Wilson: Compleat course of chymistry

M0017685: Portrait of Friedrich Benjamin Osiander (1759-1822) / M0017686: Portrait of Sir Fielding Ould (1710-1789)

M0017687: Illustration of a phygmomanometer introduced by Samuel Siegfried von Basch

M0017688: Dr Richard Birks with Sir Henry Hallett Dale and Dr Frank Campbell MacIntosh, 1959

M0017689EA: Sinhalese mask, front view

M0017689EB: Sinhalese mask: side view

M0017694: Designs for facial features used in Congolese wood carvings

M0017706EA: Wooden mask with movable jaw and eyes

M0017706: Wooden mask with movable jaw and eyes

M0017707: Wooden mask, possibly from Bella Coola, British Columbia: front view

M0017707: Wooden mask, possibly from Bella Coola, British Columbia: side view

M0017715: Wooden mask, North American

M0017719: Wooden Tlingit mask

M0017722: Illustration of Pixii's magneto-electric machine, the first induction machine to be put on the market

M0017723: Magneto electric machine of the type introduced by Saxton, circa 1840-1850

M0017724: Leyden jar, Italian, 18th century

M0017725: Page from the manuscript of Petrus Peregrinus, 1269

M0017726: Illustration of Mussehenbroek's experiment with the Leyden jar, 1746

M0017727: Illustration of Le Monnier's experiment to show the effect of the discharge of the Leyden jar on persons connected by wires,

M0017728: Gilbert: De magnete, 1600: title page

M0017729: Dividing a lodestone or magnet., 1600

M0017730: The reaction of small magnets when placed in various positions on a terrella, 1600

M0017731: Globular lodestone or terrella with versoria, 1600

M0017732: The division of a magnet or lodestone., 1600

M0017733: The making of a magnet in the earth's field., 1600

M0017736: Portrait of Thomas Renton Elliot (1877-1961)

M0017737: Queen Square, London, 1810

M0017738: Illustration of Powis House in 1714

M0017742: The Venous System from 13th century, from de Lint: Atlas of the History of Medicine

M0017743: The Arterial System, from Atlas of the History of Medicine, from de Lint: Atlas of the History of Medicine

M0017744: The nervous system, from de Lint: Atlas of the History of Medicine

M0017745: The osseous system, from de Lint: Atlas of the History of Medicine

M0017746: The Muscular System from 13th century, from de Lint: Atlas of the History of Medicine

M0017747: University of Edinburgh Summer Session, 1899: group photograph

M0017748: University of Edinburgh Summer Session, 1900: group photograph

M0017749: University of Edinburgh Medical School Anatomical staff, 1900-1901

M0017750: University of Edinburgh Winter Session, 1901-1902: group photograph

M0017751: University of Edinburgh final year: Medicine, 1902: group photograph

M0017752: University of Edinburgh Summer Session, 1903: group photograph

M0017753: Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, winter 1902-1903: staff photograph

M0017754: Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, winter 1903-1904: staff photograph

M0017755: Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, summer 1904: staff photograph

M0017756: Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat colloquium in Vienna, October 1905

M0017757: No. 4 (University) Company, Queen's Royal Volunteer Battalion, July 1899

M0017758: Illustration of three Neolithic "Thames Picks" from Westminster, Isleworth and Teddington

M0017759: Details of Wyeth's hypodermic tablets, 1881

M0017760: Detail of Wyeth's compressed tablets of chlorate of potash, 1881

M0017764: Traditional healer's girdle, Uganda

M0017765: Abbey of Moveruela, Spain: South East view

M0017766: Pillars of the Apse, Abbey of Moveruela, Spain

M0017767: The Apse, Abbey of Moveruela, Spain

M0017768: The Apse, Abbey of Moveruela, Spain: north to south view

M0017769: Series of rigid monaural stethoscopes

M0017673: Illustration of apparatus for studying uterine contractions during childbirth

M0017673: Illustration of apparatus for studying uterine contractions during childbirth

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