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Engraving of Percivall Pott (1714-1788) English surgeon published in the author's extra-illustrated copy of Foot, Jesse: The life of John Hunter , dated 1822. The published version was published by T. Becket in 1794.

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0017133-M0017262

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0017133: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition: "The Microscope and Zoology in the 19th century": 1800-1860

M0017134: Portrait of Count Don Antonio el Ingles by Velazquez

M0017135: "Las Meninas", Velazquez, 1656

M0017136: "The Pharmacist", Pietro Longhi, 18th century

M0017137: Portrait of Sir Norman Purvis Walker (1862-1942)

M0017138: Façade of the L'Hotel-Dieu, Paris

M0017140: Three doctors attending to a landscape, 15th century

M0017141: Rattle used by Azande traditional healers, Central Africa

M0017144: Portait of Alexis Carrel (1873-1944)

M0017145: Five Roman and Greek bronze spatulae, some with probe-ends

M0017146: Six surgical instruments found in a tomb at Thebes

M0017147: Eight Greek and Roman needles and eye-instruments

M0017148: Three Greek and Roman surgical instruments in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

M0017149: Three bladed rectal speculum, 17th century

M0017150: Two bladed rectal speculum, 17th century

M0017151: A physician holding out a pair of scissors, Hendrick Goltzius, , 1587

M0017156: Illustration of a series of microliths and microburin of the Mesolithic industry

M0017157: The Cuff compound microscope, 18th century

M0017158: Original Culpeper microscope, c.1735

M0017159: Original Culpeper microscope with case, c.1735

M0017160: Chest microscope signed "Dollond, London", c.1800

M0017161: Adams' Universal Compound Microscope, late 18th century

M0017162: Adams' Universal Compound Microscope, late 18th century

M0017163: Achromatic microscope by Powell and Lealand, 1869

M0017164: Portrait of Alexander Monro (1697-1767)

M0017165: Portrait of John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815)

M0017168: Portrait of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820)

M0017169: Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

M0017170: Illustration of Bronze Age perforated stone battle-axes and hammers

M0017171: Portrait of Pierre Pomet (1658-1699)

M0017175EA: Illustration of Symphitum officinale from the Johnson Papyrus, c.400 A.D.

M0017175: Illustration of Phlomis from the Johnson Papyrus, c.400 A.D.

M0017176: Reconstructed portrait of Avicenna (c.980-1037) based on his skull

M0017177: Lung tissue stained with eosin, from Ruffer: Studies in the Palaeopathology of Egypt (1921)

M0017178: Vertebrae from a skeleton showing spondylitis deformans, from Ruffer: Studies in the Palaeopathology of Egypt (1921)

M0017179: Spondylitis in a crocodile, from Ruffer: Studies in the Palaeopathology of Egypt (1921)

M0017181: Illustration of a cleaver type of bifacial implement

M0017182: Illustration of a massive cleaver type of bifacial flint implement

M0017183: Portrait of William Cullen (1710-1790)

M0017184: Illustration of Richardson's ether spray and drop bottles

M0017185: Large amputation saw, 16th century

M0017186: Three bullet extractors, 16th to 17th century

M0017187: Pocket set of twelve surgical instruments, 16th century

M0017188: Double bladed concealed bistoury, a pair of scissors and a small amputation saw, 16th to 17th century

M0017189: Three dental instuments

M0017190: Portrait of Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

M0017191: Portrait of Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

M0017192: Trepan, brace and bit type with crown, 16-17th century

M0017193: Respirator designed by Rudolph Eisenmenger of Hungary, c.1904

M0017194: Illustration of a method of artificial respiration by rolling a man prone on a barrel

M0017195: Aparatus for artificial respiration designed by Acklen (1916) and by Stewart (1918)

M0017196: N. American method of resuscitation.

M0017197EA: Ivory spectacles case, c.1500

M0017197EB: Ivory spectacles case, c.1500

M0017198: Two pairs of glasses and their cases

M0017199: Two pairs of glasses and their cases, early 18th century

M0017200: Two pairs of glasses and their cases

M0017201: Pair of glasses with case and a 17th century wooden case for glasses

M0017202: Three pairs of eye-glasses

M0017209: Portrait of Victor Von Bruns (1812-1883)

M0017210: The first dressing on the battle-field, 1869

M0017211: Illustration of cupping glasses, 17th century

M0017213: "The visit of Dr. Pinel to the Salpetriere, Paris, 1795"

M0017214: 'Delusional Insanity'.

M0017215: Philippe Pinel liberating patients at the asylum of Bicetre Hospital

M0017216: Ward in the Bethlem Hospital, 1882 / M0017217: Ward in the Bethlem Hospital, c.1745

M0017218: Greatrakes: A brief account of Mr. Valentine Greatrak's, 1666: title page and frontispiece

M0017219: Dental Advertisment, 1841

M0017220: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate I

M0017221: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate II

M0017222: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate III

M0017223: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate IV

M0017224: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate V

M0017225: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate VI

M0017226: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate VII

M0017227: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate VIII

M0017228: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate IX

M0017229: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate X

M0017230: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate XI

M0017231: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate XII

M0017232: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate XIII

M0017233: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate XIV

M0017234: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: plate XV

M0017235: Scarpa: De structura fenestrae rotuundae, 1772: plate I

M0017237: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: volume II, plate I

M0017238: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: volume II, plate II

M0017239: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: volume II, plate III

M0017240: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: volume II, plate IV

M0017241: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: volume II, plate V

M0017242: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: volume II, plate VI

M0017243: Joerdens: Entomologie und Helminthologie, 1801-2: volume II, plate VII

M0017252: Two pottery skin scrapers, North Africa

M0017254: Illustration of a series of stone implements from a Mesolithic site at Sandstone, Iver, Buckinghamshire

M0017256: Set of bottles for holding scent or other preparations, in a leather bag

M0017257: Row of Lion incubators for babies, with nurses standing next to them, 1896

M0017259: A courtyard view showing the university buildings and street life, Berlin, Germany

M0017260: A view of the Charite Hospital and grounds, Berlin

M0017261: Portrait of Johannes Muller (1801-1858)

M0017262: Portrait of Johann Lukas Schoenlein (1793-1864)

M0017166: Portrait of Percivall Pott (1714-1788)

M0017166: Portrait of Percivall Pott (1714-1788)

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