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Woodcut diagram published in Brownrigg, William: "An experimental enquiry into the mineral elastic spirit, or air, contained in spa water", Philosophical Transactions, vol.55, 1765

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0018440-M0018551

1 photograph sheet film negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

M0018440: Four silver medical instruments

M0018441: Small silver hearing aid, Paris

M0018442: Paracelsus: Ettliche Tractatus, 1570: title page

M0018443: Portrait of Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926)

M0018444: 11 Nelson Street, Liverpool in 1885, home of Hugh Owen Thomas

M0018445: 43 Foregate Street, Worcester, the home of Sir Charles Hastings

M0018446: Section of Persian Court, 47 Brook Street, London

M0018447: David Livingstone's birthplace at Blantyre

M0018448: Birthplace of John Hunter at Long Calderwood

M0018450: Portrait of Nathan Lacy (b.1656)

M0018451: The male day room at the Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth

M0018452: The Gallery for Women at Bethlem Royal Hospital

M0018453: The "Bright Ward", Guy's Hospital, 1907

M0018454: Nurses uniforms from 1860, 1875 and 1914

M0018455: The work room of the Royal Hospital of Bethlehm, 1914

M0018456: "Cox poxed. Ox faced Boy", the supposed effects of vaccination

M0018457: Portrait of Anthony Todd Thomson (1778-1849)

M0018458EA: Silver gilt pap boat with cockle shell handle, 1810-1811

M0018458EB: Silver gilt pap boat with cockle shell handle, 1810-1811 / M0018459EB: silver gilt pap boat, 1809-1810

M0018459EA: Silver gilt pap boat, 1809-1810

M0018460: Silver pap boat, 1806-1807

M0018461: Silver pap boat with flattened edge, 1793-1794

M0018462: Silver pap boat, 1785-1786

M0018463: Silver pap boat, 1817-1818

M0018464: Silver pap boat, 1797-1798

M0018465: Silver pap boat, 1728-1729

M0018466: Silver posset cup with repouse work, 1764-1765

M0018467: Three silver kitchen implements

M0018468: Three silver nutmeg graters

M0018469: Two small measures in the form of tankards and a barrel shaped nutmeg grater

M0018470: Two combined vinaigrettes or pomanders with thimble, thread and needle holder

M0018471: Portrait of Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake (1865-1925)

M0018472: Portrait of William Campbell Maclean (1811-1898)

M0018474: The birthplace and house of Claude Bernard (1813-1878)

M0018475: Title page to Bertholet: Theses anatomicae et chirurgicae, 1752

M0018476: Santorio Santorio sitting in a chair

M0018477: Synopsis of the Medicinal Contents of the noted mineral waters, 1780

M0018479: Illustration of a speculum and a spatula, 1852

M0018480: Illustrations of a glass for reflecting sunlight into the vagina and the speculum introduced into the vagina, 1852

M0018481: Illustration of a tenaculum and knife applied to the fistula, 1852

M0018482: Illustration of the procedure for the introduction of ligatures, 1852

M0018483: Illustration of the fistula and sutures after Sim's operation, 1852

M0018484: Portrait of Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915)

M0018485EA: Jobert de Lamballe's operation for vesico-vaginal fistula, 1834

M0018485EB: Jobert de Lamballe's operation for vesico-vaginal fistula, 1834

M0018485EC: Jobert de Lamballe's operation for vesico-vaginal fistula, 1834

M0018486: Illustration of a compressor designed for use in cases of incontinence

M0018487: Compressors and receptacles for incontinence, 1753

M0018488: Rubber apparatus for use in incontinence of urine, 1870

M0018489: The Royal College of Surgeons after the bombing, May 1941

M0018490: Ergot of rye, ergot of lolium and drop of honey dew on lolium

M0018491: Lolium tremulentum (Darnel)

M0018492, M0018493, M0018494: Prickly poppy (Argemone mexicana), 1795

M0018495EA: The Solbrig-Paltschick Press for the casting of metals under steam pressure for dental work

M0018495EB: The Solbrig-Paltschick Press for the casting of metals under steam pressure for dental work

M0018496: Instructions for Swaging Press, for Spence's metal

M0018497: The Taggart Press for Cast Inlays

M0018500: Woodcut of a plague scene, 1559

M0018501: Coat of Arms of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh

M0018502: Wand of Office of a the Scottish Medical Institution, c.1855

M0018503: Portrait of Bruno Bloch (1878-1933)

M0018504: "Doctor Blowbladder discovering the perpetual motion", 1772

M0018505: A country pedlar selling medicines from a basket, etching

M0018506: "The headache", by Cruikshank

M0018507: "Indigestion", by Cruikshank

M0018508: Operation on a patient's back, oil painting

M0018509: Two portraits of Alfred Sheen (1869-1945)

M0018510: Illustration of a stork dressed as a doctor with a large syringe, 1910

M0018512: "Quack! Shadow and Substance", by Charles H. Bennett

M0018514: "Les Effets du Magnetisme.....animal", French satirical drawing

M0018515: "Les femmes Medecins", French satirical drawing

M0018516: "The quack doctor", Rowlandson

M0018517: Woven mat black, brown and cream, Zaire

M0018518: Woven mat: strips joined by bands in colour, Zaire

M0018519: Sections of five woven grass mats with knotted fringes, Zaire

M0018520: Sections of five woven grass mats, Zaire

M0018521: Woven grass mat with stripes in colours, Zaire

M0018522: Woven grass mat of a check design in colours, Zaire

M0018523: Woven grass mat with broad and narrow stripes in colours, Zaire

M0018524: Woven grass mat with stripes in colours, Zaire

M0018525: Woven grass mat of a check design in colours, Zaire

M0018526: Sections of three woven grass mats, Zaire

M0018527: Sections of three woven grass mats, Zaire

M0018528: Woven grass mat with knotted fringe and stripes in colour, Zaire

M0018529: Woven grass mat with fringe, Zaire

M0018530: Sections of three woven grass mats, Zaire

M0018531: Sections of five woven grass mats, Zaire

M0018532: Sections of three woven grass mats, patterned and plain, Zaire

M0018533: Sections of four woven grass mats, patterned and plain, Zaire

M0018534: Sections of three patterned woven grass mats, Zaire

M0018536: Portrait of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936)

M0018538: Portrait of John Abernethy (1764-1831)

M0018539: Portrait of Sir Leonard Rogers (1868-1962)

M0018540: Digges: The Compleat Ambassador, 1655: title page

M0018541: Queen Elizabeth I, William Cecil and Francis Walsingham

M0018542: Illustration of an experiment for the study of absorption in the rabbit, 1879

M0018544: Two photographs of the Begumpet Hospital Building

M0018550: Gold angel touch-piece pierced for suspension, 17th century

M0018551: Graph showing deaths in breast and bottle fed children, Paris 1898

M0018478: Apparatus for extracting the spirit from mineral waters, 1765

M0018478: Apparatus for extracting the spirit from mineral waters, 1765

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