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Illustration published in Mikulicz, Johann: "Uber Gastroskopie und Oesophagoskopie", Wiener medizinische Presse, vol.22, 1881. Related images: M0018891

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0018877-M0019001

1 photograph slide transparency; 5 x 5 cm

M0018877: Hill's bronchoscope and gastroscope

M0018878EA: Roman terracota lamp, 1st century A.D.

M0018878EB: Roman terracota lamp, 1st century A.D.

M0018879: Von Basch's demonstration that blood pressure may be determined from an unopened artery

M0018880: Illustration of Nitze's cystoscope as first designed by him and made for him by the Dresden instrument maker Deicke

M0018881: Bruck's diaphanoscope: a platinum loop heated by an electric current

M0018882: Illustration of the two forms of the Nitze-Leiter cystoscope of 1879

M0018883: First form of a water cooling apparatus for use with the Nitze-Leiter cystoscope, 1879

M0018884: Compact form of a water cooling apparatus for use with the Nitze-Leiter cystoscope, 1879

M0018885: Illustration of the two forms of Leiter's incandescent cystoscope

M0018886: Illustration of Nitze's incandescent cystoscope with electric filament lamp

M0018887: Illustration of the cystoscope in use in the bladder

M0018889: Illustration of a gastroscope designed by Mikulicz-Redecki, 1881

M0018891EA: Human skull with trepanation hole, Uganda

M0018891EB: Human skull with trepanation hole, Uganda

M0018891EC: Human skull with trepanation hole, Uganda

M0018892: Two women observing a sign for buying teeth, print from 1914

M0018893: A dentist telling off his assistant for not extracting a tooth, print from 1914

M0018894: A dentist asking a nervous patient would she like gas, print from 1914

M0018895: Illustrations of a hammer-type percussor and pleximeter introduced by John Burne

M0018896: Hales: Statistical Essays, 1738: title page

M0018897: Hales: Statistical Essays, 1738: first experiment on blood pressure

M0018898: An interior of a stylish pharmacy with the pharmacist serving a customer, coloured etching

M0018899: A shop front of a pharmacy in Bath Street, Leamington, engraving

M0018900: A travelling tooth-drawer extracts a tooth from a patient, engraving

M0018901: Carved wooden birds from a traditional healer's medicine bag, Cameroon

M0018904EA: Tambura made of wood, hide and gut string

M0018904EB: Tambura made of wood, hide and gut string

M0018905: Carved wooden mask: an animal head surmounted by a human head

M0018906: Head of an iron staff surmounted by pellet balls and grotesque figures

M0018908EA: Double reed instrument, Tsimshian

M0018908EB: Double reed instrument, Tsimshian

M0018911EA: Pharmacy jar decorated with a painting of a snake coiled round a tree and foliate design, Portuguese

M0018911EB: Pharmacy jar decorated with a painting of a snake coiled round a tree and foliate design, Portuguese

M0018912: Glass alembic, or alchemical still

M0018913EA: Graduated horn measure, 16 drams

M0018913EB: Graduated horn measure, 16 drams

M0018915: Miniature mask made of white marble used as an amulet, Mexican

M0018916: Mexican amulet depicting two grotesque figures

M0018917: Amazon stone pectoral in a brass mount with ebonized frame, early Mexican

M0018927: Two frog-shaped pendants or amulets, America

M0018932: Two female figurines in bronze worn to prevent disease, Peru and a male figurine in silver, Bolivia

M0018933: Male figure in silver and female pottery figure, probably amuletic, Peru

M0018934; Gold figurine of a Peruvian deity and a bronze female figuring with a halo, South America

M0018936: Two pages of text referencing Auenbrugger and percussion, 1806

M0018937EA: Illustration of the endoscope designed by Francis R. Cruise in 1865, a modification of Desormeaux's design

M0018937EB: Illustration of the endoscope designed by Francis R. Cruise in 1865, a modification of Desormeaux's design

M0018938: The optical arrangement of Desormeaux's endoscope, 1865

M0018939: Illustration of Desormeaux's endoscope, 1865

M0018940: Illustration of Desormeaux's endoscope in use, 1865

M0018941: Illustration of the urethral tube for use with Desormeaux's endoscope, 1865

M0018942: Illustration of a percussion thimble, a substitute for the percussion hammer introduced by Charles Bland Radcliffe, 1862

M0018943: Cartoon of a man in bed surrounded by various medicine bottles, L'assiette au beurre, 22 March 1902

M0018944: "Le marchand d'orvietan de campagne", coloured stipple engraving

M0018945: An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares in a village square, pen drawing

M0018946: Portrait of Sir Joseph Barcroft (1872-1947)

M0018947: Portrait of Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825-1895)

M0018948: Portrait of Rene Laennec (1781-1826)

M0018949: Prehistoric symbols carved on Rocher du pas du Roi

M0018950: Portrait of Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pfluger (1829-1910)

M0018951: Portrait of George Huntington (1850-1916)

M0018952: Portrait of George Huntington (1850-1916)

M0018953: Two water carriers, Akamba, Kenya

M0018955EA: Illustration of Benjamin Ward Richardson's modification of Dudgeon's sphygmograph, 1885

M0018955EB: Sphygmograph chart, 1885

M0018956: Sphygmograph chart, 1885

M0018957: Normal pulse tracing on Benjamin Ward Richardson's sphygmograph, 1885

M0018958: Abnormal pulse tracing on Benjamin Ward Richardson's sphygmograph, 1885

M0018960: Scenes from the opening of a new wing of the Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, City Road, London

M0018961: Illustration of Mudge's inhaler and apparatus for conveying the fumes of herbs and other dry preparations to obstinate tumours in various parts of the body, 1798

M0018962: Illustration of the Hill and Barnard sphygmomanometer, 1897

M0018963: Reproduction of a photograph showing the method of applying Oliver's fluid-pad haemodynamometer to the radial or ulnar artery, 1901

M0018964: Illustration of a pulse pressure gauge, the first form of haemodynamometer designed by George Oliver, 1895

M0018965: Illustration of an arteriometer introduced by George Oliver in 1894

M0018966: Illustration showing the method of applying Oliver's arteriometer, 1895

M0018967: Portrait of Henry Hill Hickman (1800-1830)

M0018968: Photograph of Parry Morgan

M0018969: Portrait of Henry Trimen (1843-1896)

M0018970: Portrait of Charles Romley Alder Wright (1844-1894) / M0018971: Portrait of Arthur C. H. Rothera (1880-1915)

M0018972: Portrait of John Freeman (1877-1962) / M0018973: Portrait of Stewart Rankin Douglas (1871-1936)

M0018974: Portrait of Wilfred Harris (1869-1960)

M0018975: Portrait of Frederick John Poynton (1869-1943)

M0018976: Illustration of a sphygmomanometer of Herisson, 1908

M0018977: Illustration of a clinical polygraph devised by Sir James Mackenzie using a Dudgeon sphygmograph and tambour, 1908

M0018978: Illustration of the tambour with stem attachment to the Dudgeon or Jacquet sphygmograph, 1908

M0018981: Engraving of Christ's Hospital, London

M0018982: Engraving of Christ's Hospital, London

M0018983:Aerial view of Bridewell Hospital, engraving

M0018984: Aerial view of Fyfield Down, showing field boundaries

M0018985: Sir Clifford Allbutt's clinical thermometer

M0018987: The gold-maker at work, drawing by Brueghel, 1558

M0018988: Illustration of Piorry's stethoscope and pleximeter, 1828

M0018994: Laennec using a stethoscope on a patient

M0018995: Illustration of alchemical apparatus: Aludel and Kerotakis

M0018996: Portrait of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)

M0018997: Portrait of Etienne Louis Arthur Fallot (1850-1911) / M0018998: Portrait of Werner Forssmann (1904-1979)

M0018999: Plaque commemorating work of Auguste Chauveau (1827-1917)

M0019000: Pulse tracings from a sphygmograph, 1867

M0019001: Tracing from Dudgeon's sphygmograph, 1882

M0018890: Illustration of a gastroscope developed by Mikulicz-Redecki, 1881

M0018890: Illustration of a gastroscope developed by Mikulicz-Redecki, 1881

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