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Black and white photograph of a wax ex-voto of a human arm, with a snake on the back of hand. The item is from the Musee Etnographiquo, Palmero and is not held by Wellcome Collection.

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0001502-M0001602

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

M0001502: Photograph of the interior of a pharmacy in Sorrento, Italy

M0001503: Photograph of the detail of the left-hand side of the interior of a pharmacy in Sorrento, Italy

M0001504: Photograph of the detail of the right-hand side of the interior of a pharmacy in Sorrento, Italy

M0001505: Photograph of a wall covered with ex-voto pictures in the Musee Etnographique, Palmero

M0001506: Photograph of a wax ex-voto of a human arm and hand with bow tied around the wrist

M0001507: Photograph of a wax ex-voto of a horse's hoof with diseased leg

M0001508: Photograph of a wax ex-voto of human leg and foot

M0001510: Photograph of a wax ex-voto of human head with a cut across the forehead and bloodied nose

M0001511: Photograph of three wax votive offerings of (left to right) a bloodied nose, a breast and a human head with a skin condition

M0001512: Photograph of a wax ex-voto of a human head

M0001513: Photograph of a wax ex-voto of a human head (possibly female) with markings on the forehead

M0001514: Photograph of two wax ex-voto human heads with skin conditions

M0001515: Photograph of a wax ex-voto of a stomach with bleeding wounds either side of the navel

M0001516: Photograph of a wax ex-voto of an unidentified body part

M0001517: Photograph of a wax ex-voto possibly of a torso with markings and leeches

M0001518: Photograph of two votive pictures showing an operation (top) and childbirth (bottom)

M0001519: Photograph of four groups of mounted crosses, pendants and charms from the Mortlellet Collection, Paris

M0001520: Photograph of four groups of mounted charms and amulets, chiefly heart and pear shaped stones mounted in metal

M0001521: Photograph of two groups of mounted Catholic pilgrimage medals and Spanish amulets

M0001522: Photograph of a small grouped display of steatite amulets

M0001523: Photograph of four groups of mounted religious medallions and carved stone amulets

M0001524: Photograph of four groups of mounted religious medallions (Catholic and Orthodox)

M0001525: Photograph of four groups of mounted pilgrimage medals and votive amulets, including fascinus/fascinum (divine or winged phallus)

M0001526: Photograph of four groups of votive offerings, possibly Catholic from South America

M0001527: Photograph of a mounted display of amuletic heads and figures

M0001528: Photograph of a mounted display of various types of amulets

M0001529: Photograph of the view of the construction of Henry Wellcome's headquarters "House of Boulders" at the archaeological site Jebel Moya in Sudan, approximately 1910

M0001530: Photograph of the view of Jebel Moya, Henry Wellcome's archeological excavation site in Sudan, and a large gathering of local workers within the campsite

M0001531: Photograph of rows of local workers holding papers and possibly waiting to receive their wages, at the campsite in Jebel Moya, Henry Wellcome's archeological excavation site in Sudan

M0001532: Photograph of the view over the campsite at Jebel Moya, Henry Wellcome's archeological excavation site in Sudan, taken from the roof of Wellcome's headquarters named the House of Boulders

M0001533: Photograph of the general landscape and view of the excavations at Jebel Moya, Henry Wellcome's archeological site in Sudan

M0001534: Photograph of the view over the campsite at Jebel Moya, Henry Wellcome's archeological excavation site in Sudan, with a stone incinerator in the foreground and tents in the background

M0001535: Photograph of the view over the excavations at Jebel Moya, Henry Wellcome's archeological site in Sudan, with a stone incinerator in the foreground (left)

M0001536: Photograph of the local workforce hauling boulders at Jebel Moya, Henry Wellcome's archeological excavation site in Sudan, with a hoist and tackle on the left-hand side

M0001537: Photograph of the local workforce hauling on rope to move boulders at Jebel Moya, Henry Wellcome's archeological excavation site in Sudan, with tents in the background

M0001538: Photograph of a kite camera in operation at Jebel Moya, Henry Wellcome's archeological excavation site in Sudan

M0001539: Photograph showing the position of excavated skeletons at Jebel Moya, Henry Wellcome's archeological excavation site in Sudan, with some of the local workforce sorting other archaeological remains in the background

M0001540: Reproduction of a map of the world, showing the geographical distribution of malaria and blackwater fever

M0001541: Reproduction of a map of the world, showing the geographical distribution of malaria and blackwater fever

M0001542: Photograph of the Basilica of St. Bartholomew on the Island (Basilica di San Bartolomeo all'Isola) in Rome, Italy

M0001543: Photograph of the view of Tiber Island from Palatine Hill (L'Isola Tiberina dal Monte Palatino) in Rome, Italy

M0001544: Reproduction of an illustration of the Archangel Michael standing upon Satan and weighing souls

M0001545: Black and white photograph of a pointing stick or bone, which was possibly used by a Kurdaitcha (or kurdaitcha man, a type of shaman amongst the Arrernte people, an Aboriginal group in Central Australia) in the ritual of bone-pointing

M0001546: Reproduction of an illustration of "Cortex Cinchonae"

M0001547: Botanical illustration of a Cinchona ledgeriana specimen from Java

M0001548: Botanical illustration of Cinchona calisaya, var. ledgeriana

M0001549: Botanical illustration of a Cinchona succirubra specimen from Ootacamund, India, 1875

M0001550: Photograph of Cinchona robusta growing in the Government Cinchona Enterprise, in Java

M0001551: Photograph of Cinchona succirubra growing in the cinchona plantation, Lembang, Java, in 1889

M0001552: Photograph of Cinchona ledgeriana growing in the Government Cinchona Enterprise, in Java

M0001553: Reproduction of a photograph of a statue of Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795-1877), French pharmacist and Pierre-Joseph Pelletier (1788-1842), French chemist and pharmacist

M0001554: Reproduction of a map of South America showing Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia

M0001555: Reproduction of a map showing the geographical distribution of official Cinchonas in South America, after Rössig

M0001556: Photograph of Cinchona bales and a table of South American bark samples in a warehouse

M0001557: Photograph of a small group of plantation workers in a grove of Cinchona succirubra trees

M0001558: Photograph of plantation workers on a Cinchona plantation, Kinatuin, in Lembang

M0001559: Cinchona plantation, Ootacamund

M0001560: Photograph of the interior of quinine factory in Amsterdam, with factory workers in the background

M0001561: Damaged negative of a photograph of the view across a Cinchona plantation, Preanger Regency, Java

M0001562: Damaged negative of a photograph of plantation workers in the Cinchona (succirubra) plantation in Java, with their encampment on the right-hand side

M0001563: Photograph of the view of a plantation of Cinchona ledgeriana in Java, with a nursery for Cinchona succirubra seedlings in the foreground

M0001564: Photograph of a nursery for seedlings of cinchona Ledgriana in the foreground and cinchona Succirubra in Lembang, Java

M0001565: Photograph of the view over the Tankuban Prahu and the Cinchona districts in Java, Indonesia

M0001566: Photograph of a Cinchona plantation in Lembang, Central Java, one of the original photographs by Professor A. Tschirch, 1888

M0001567: Photograph of Cinchona succirubra in Java illustrating bark being peeled off in strips to aid its renewal

M0001568: Photograph of plantation workers peeling, sorting, pressing and packing Cinchona succirubra bark in the plantation of Lembang, Central Java

M0001569: Photograph of plantation workers picking the Cinchona bark in the Cinchona plantation in Lembang, Java

M0001570: Photograph of Cinchona succirubra in the plantation at Lembang, Java, with plantation workers in the background

M0001571: Photograph of a Cinchona succirubra plantation, Lembang, Java, originally taken by Professor A. Tschirch, 1888

M0001572: Photograph of factory workers collecting and baling Cinchona by hydraulic press, Ceylon

M0001573: Photograph of two doll amulets to protect against cholera and plague

M0001574: Photograph of a wooden "leper clapper"

M0001575: Photograph of Aesculapius, or Coluber longissimus, snake coiled around a wooden staff

M0001576: Photograph of a small stone statue of Aesculapius holding the Rod of Asclepius

M0001577: Photograph of a plaster cast of an Egyptian seal (tablet)

M0001578: Photograph of a plaster cast of a seated Greek physician and patient accompanied by the Greek god of medicine, Aesculapius

M0001579: Photograph of a plaster cast of a Greco-Roman physician seated in his study

M0001580: Photograph of a Sumerian vase depicting the serpent of healing from 2350 B.C.

M0001581: Photograph of a framed and mounted plant specimen of Cinchona lancifolia, seeds sent by H. Karstan and cultivated in Java

M0001582: Photograph of a framed and mounted plant specimen of Cinchona officinalis var angustifolia

M0001583: Photograph of a framed and mounted plant specimen of Cinchona succirubra (pavon). Hairy-leaved variety

M0001584: Photograph of a framed and mounted plant specimen of Cinchona pahudiana

M0001585: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona officinalis: variety Uritusinga, from the herbarium of William Graham McIvor (1824-1876), dated 1877

M0001586: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona officinalis: strong growing variety from the herbarium of William Graham McIvor (1824-1876), dated 1877

M0001587: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona officinalis augustifolia: contains 12% quinine, from the herbarium of William Graham McIvor (1824-1876), dated 1877

M0001588: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona hybrid variety, crossed between Cinchona angustifolia and Cinchona pubescens, from the herbarium of William Graham McIvor (1824-1876), dated 1877

M0001589: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona hybrid variety from the herbarium of William Graham McIvor (1824-1876), dated 1877

M0001590: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona pahudiana from the herbarium of William Graham McIvor, dated 1877

M0001591: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona ledgeriana (or calisaya) from the herbarium of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon [Sri Lanka] dated 1881

M0001592: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona officinalis from a plantation in Darjeeling, dated 1869

M0001593: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona officinalis from the cinchona plantations in Ootacamund, Neilgherries dated 1910

M0001594: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona succirubra or "wooley leaf" from the cinchona plantations in Ootacamund, Neilgherries dated 1910

M0001595: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona calisaya or "yellow bark" from the cinchona plantations in Ootacamund, Neilgherries dated 1910

M0001596: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona pahudiana from the Davadetta plantation, India

M0001597: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona peruviana from Neddivattan, India

M0001598: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona micrantha from Neilgherries plantations

M0001599: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona nitida from Neddivattan, India

M0001600: Photograph of a mounted plant specimen of Cinchona pubescens (Herb. HK)

M0001601: Photograph depicting a "virgin" forest featuring a bridge and waterfall, in Java

M0001602: Photograph depicting the clearing of a "virgin" forest in Java

M0001509: Photograph of a wax ex-voto of an arm, with a snake on the back of hand

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M0001509: Photograph of a wax ex-voto of an arm, with a snake on the back of hand

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