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M0011047: Read: Description of the body of man, 1634: title page

Title page from Read, Alexander: A description of the body of man. With the practise of chirurgery, and the use of three and fifty instruments…, London, 1634

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0011039-M0011144

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0011039: Porta: De humana physiognomonia, 1586: page 60

M0011040: Porta: De humana physiognomonia, 1586: page 67

M0011041: Porta: De humana physiognomonia, 1586: page 69

M0011042: Porta: De humana physiognomonia, 1586: page 73

M0011043: Porta: De humana physiognomonia, 1586: page 74

M0011044: Porta: De humana physiognomonia, 1586: page 75

M0011045: Porta: De humana physiognomonia, 1586: page 113

M0011046: Porta: De humana physiognomonia, 1586: page 136

M0011049: A physician examining a urine flask

M0011050: Two scholars in a cabinet, one examining a urine flask

M0011051: Interior with a medical practitioner, a woman holding a flask, and five other people

M0011052: An alchemist in his laboratory

M0011053: Bolivian coca plant

M0011054: Trade card for William Woodward: nightman, carman and chimney sweeper, 18th century.

M0011055: First page of a manuscript by Edward Jenner: "Inquiry into the natural History of a Disease…Cow-pox"

M0011056: Letter from Edward Jenner to Dr. John Le Carro, London, 4 May 1807: first page

M0011057: Letter from Edward Jenner to Dr. John Le Carro, London, 4 May 1807: second page

M0011058: Letter from Edward Jenner to Dr. John Le Carro, London, 4 May 1807: last page

M0011059: Papin's digester, the first form of pressure cooker

M0011060: A satire on the use of tobacco

M0011061: Early drawing of the process of smoking, 16th Century

M0011062: Monardes: Dos libros, el uno que trata…, 1569: title page

M0011063: Prynne: Healthes: sicknesse, 1628

M0011064: Portrait of Tobias Venner (1577-1660)

M0011065: Portrait of Johann Neander (c.1596-c.1630)

M0011066: Whitaker: Tree of human life, 1638: title page

M0011067: Neander: Tabacologia, 1626: title page

M0011068: Monardes: Joyfull newes, 1596: title page

M0011069: Andre Thevet, Cosmographer Royal

M0011070: Portrait of Jean Nicot (1530-1604)

M0011071: Thevet: The New Found Worlde, 1568: title page

M0011072: Smoking scene from the title page of Brathwait's The Smoking Age, 1617

M0011073: King James I of England and VI of Scotland

M0011074: Smoking scene and Instrument

M0011075: Hyoscyamus Luteus

M0011076: Tobacco plant, from Monardes: Joyfull newes, 1596

M0011077: Tobacco plant, from L'Obel: Stirpium adversaria nova, 1570

M0011078: Medical use of tobacco, from Le Moyne de Morgues: Brevis narratio, 1591

M0011079: Cohausen: Dissertatio satyrica physico-medico-moralis, 1716: frontispiece

M0011080: Smoking and coffee drinking scene, from The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco, 1672

M0011081: Portrait of Simon Paulli (1603-1680)

M0011082: Portrait of Gilles Everaerts (fl.1580-1659)

M0011083: Portrait of Thomas Willis (1621-1675)

M0011084: Portrait of Thomas Willis (1621-1675)

M0011086: Anatomical drawings of the eye, from Ruysch: Thesaurus anatomicus primus, 1739-1744

M0011087: Ruysch: Thesaurus anatomicus primus, 1739-1744: page 85

M0011088: Ruysch: Thesaurus anatomicus primus, 1739-1744: page 86

M0011089: Ruysch: Thesaurus anatomicus primus, 1739-1744: page 87

M0011090: Ruysch: Thesaurus anatomicus primus, 1739-1744: page 88

M0011091: Ruysch: Thesaurus anatomicus primus, 1739-1744: page 89

M0011092: Portrait of Thomas Strangeways (1866-1926)

M0011093: Flint instruments from the Old Stone Age: the blade

M0011094: Flint instruments from the Old Stone Age: the blade

M0011095: Flint instruments from the Old Stone Age: the blade

M0011096: Flint instruments from the Old Stone Age: the blade

M0011097: Flint instruments from the Old Stone Age: the back

M0011098: Flint instruments from the Old Stone Age: the back

M0011099: Flint instruments from the Old Stone Age: the back

M0011100: Flint instruments from the Old Stone Age: the back

M0011101: Flint instruments from the Old Stone Age: the tang

M0011102: Flint instruments from the Old Stone Age: the tang

M0011103: Flint instruments from the Old Stone Age: the tang

M0011104: "A midwife going to a labour", Thomas Rowlandson, 1811

M0011105: Portrait of James Blundell (1790-1878)

M0011106: Portrait of Antonio Nunes Ribeiro Sanches (1699-1783)

M0011107: Portrait of Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854)

M0011109: Muscular elements of the eye

M0011110: Diagrams of three eyes with different conditions: emmetropic, myopic and hypermetropic

M0011111: Bronze figure of the Egyptian deity Apis, depicted as a bull

M0011112: Bronze figure of the Egyptian deity Harpocrates, also known as Horus the Younger

M0011113: Figure of the Egyptian Moon God Thoth / M0011114: Bronze figure of the Egyptian deity Bes, protector of childbirth

M0011115: Figure of the Egyptian deity Ptah

M0011116: Bronze figure of the Egyptian deity Isis with Horus the child

M0011117: Figure of the early Egyptian deity Neith, creator and goddess of mothers and childbirth

M0011118: Bronze figure of the Egyptian deity Bastet, also known as Ubastet and Bast

M0011119: Figure of the Egyptian healing deity Taurt, represented as a female hippopotamus with a crocodile's tail

M0011120: Crooke: Mikrokosmographia, 1631: title page

M0011121: Crooke: Mikrokosmographia, 1631: frontispiece

M0011122: Annotations from Linnaeus' Materia Medica, 1749

M0011126: Sanchez: Tratado da conservacao, 1756: title page

M0011127: Sanchez: Tratado da conservacao, 1757: title page

M0011128: Vesalius: De humani corporis fabrica, 1543: illustration

M0011129: Reproduction of La Condamine's drawing, 1738

M0011130: Egyptian relief from the tomb of Mereruka, Sakkara (Saqqara), showing metal workers and glass blowers at work

M0011131: Relief showing Egyptian papyrus and water-lily or sacred lotus

M0011132: Entrance ot the Temple of Amenerdais, Thebes

M0011133: Relief showing the moulding of the infant, The Birth House of Nektanebis, at Temple of Hathor, Dendera

M0011134: The ophthalmoscope designed by Gillet de Grandmont in use

M0011135: Operating chair exhibited by Mr Mayer and Mr Meltzer

M0011136: Case of surgical instruments, 1873

M0011137EA: Instrument sterilizers, 1901

M0011137EB: Instrument sterilizers, 1901

M0011138: "Sentence of Death", photogravure after J. Collier, 1908

M0011139: Midwifery bags, 1901

M0011140: Portrait of Thomas Strangeways (1866-1926)

M0011141: Cylinder seal showing Adad, god who causes colds and rheums.

M0011142: Cylinder seal showing the Babylonian goddess of childbirth

M0011143: Cylinder seal showing suppliants approaching a shrine, seeking health

M0011144: Cylinder seal showing the scorpion symbol of the goddess Ishkhara

M0011047: Read: Description of the body of man, 1634: title page

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