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Oil painting formerly attributed to Jaime Huguet of Saints Cosmas and Damian. Related images: V0017387

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0005371-M0005487

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 11 x 14.3 cm

M0005371: Attic crater decorated with images of injured athletes

M0005372: Portrait of Edward Jenner (1749-1823)

M0005373: Portrait of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

M0005374: A physician examining a urine-flask, oil painting by Gerard Thomas

M0005376: Physicians attending a patient in his bed, woodcut

M0005377: Physician examining his own urine and feeling his heart-beat, oil painting

M0005378: Urine chart, 15th century

M0005379: Reconstruction of a 16h century barber-surgeon's shop, in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

M0005380: Reconstruction of a 17th century apothecary's shop, in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

M0005381: Illustration from a Chinese manuscript on vaccination showing vaccination pustules

M0005382: Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montague (1689-1762)

M0005383: Berkeley Vicarage, birthplace of Edward Jenner, watercolour drawing

M0005384: Berkeley Church, exterior view

M0005385: Edward Jenner's certificate of attendance at lectures on anatomy and surgery, 15 May 1772

M0005386: Jenner: Inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae, 1798: title page

M0005387: Jenner: Inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae, 1798: case 1

M0005388: Photograph of a house at Berkeley, home of first vaccinated child

M0005389: Chantry Cottage, where Edward Jenner lived and practiced

M0005390: Alpha House, where Jenner first practiced vaccination

M0005391: Exterior of 14 Hereford Street, where Edward Jenner practiced in 1808

M0005392: Address presented to Jenner by the Physical Society of Guys Hospital, 1802

M0005395: Diploma presented to Jenner by Harvard University, 1803

M0005396: Statue of Edward Jenner in the Place des Bains, Boulogne

M0005397: Etching of Edward Jenner and two colleagues seeing off three anti-vaccination opponents, 1808

M0005398: "The Cow Pock or the Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation", 1803

M0005399: Illustration of Bloxhams improved graduated chloroform drop bottles, 1873

M0005400: Illustrations of three Bloxhams improved graduated chloroform drop bottles, 1895

M0005401: Illustrations of three Bloxhams improved graduated chloroform drop bottles, 1895

M0005402: Illustrations of chloroform drop bottles and drop tubes by Lubreicks, Chalks and Jessop, 1904

M0005403: Illustration of a set of four drop bottles by Stroscheim, 1904

M0005404: Illustration of four drop bottles, c.1902

M0005405: Portrait of Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (1821-1902)

M0005406: Portrait of Gustav Freytag (1816-1895)

M0005407: Diorama of Michael Faraday in his laboratory at the Royal Institution

M0005408: Diorama of Roger Bacon presenting one of his scientific works to the chancellor of Paris University

M0005409: Diorama of Robert Boyle in his laboratory in Covent Garden, London

M0005410: Diorama of a medieval alchemist at work in his laboratory

M0005411: Diorama showing Evangelista Torricelli inventing the barometer

M0005412: Diorama of Antoine Lavoisier at work in his laboratory

M0005413: Illustration of a Malacca woman invoking the Goddess of Smallpox and carrying fire on her head, symbolic of the disease

M0005414: Masonic certificate belonging to Reverend George Charles Jenner (1767-1846)

M0005415: Peonia from Erbario Medicinale, 15th century

M0005416: Henbane from Erbario Medicinale, 15th century

M0005417: Aristochia from Erbario Medicinale, 15th century

M0005418: Aruni (dragon plant) from Erbario Medicinale, 15th century

M0005419: Livre des simples medecines, c.1470: title page

M0005420: Balsam tree, from Livre des simples medecines, c.1470

M0005421: Mandrake in flower, Livre des simples medecines, c.1470

M0005422: Plantain, Livre des simples medecines, c.1470

M0005423: Peaches, Livre des simples medecines, c.1470

M0005427: Statue of Babylonian God of Healing, circa 5000 B.C. / M0005427EB: Photograph of the entrance of an unidentified European church, possibly Spanish

M0005428: Egyptian healing shrine built by Rameses II, at the Temple of Khonsu, Karnak

M0005429: Statue of Imhotep, Egyptian demi-God, circa 2900 B.C.

M0005430: Carving of Nut the sky goddess at the Temple of Hathor, Egypt

M0005431: Carvings in the Temple of Seti I at Abydos

M0005432: Model of the Temple of Asclepius, Epidaurus

M0005433: A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg, oil painting

M0005434: Altar of Saints Cosmas and Damian, in the Church of Cosmas and Damian, Rome.

M0005435: Saint Pantaleon holding book and pen / M0005435EB: People worshipping at an outdoor church or shrine

M0005436: A key laid on St.Peter's shrine as a cure for hydrophobia

M0005437: Pilgrims at the shrine of St.Thomas at Canterbury: stained glass window at Nettlestead, Kent

M0005438: Four sections of a stained glass window at Canterbury Cathedral showing a cure of leprosy

M0005439: Man being cured after eating mortar from the Shrine of St. William, stained glass window, 1420

M0005440: Cure of a Knight Templar's paralysed leg, stained glass window, c.1420

M0005441: Miraculous Cure of Master Dydo, physician to King Louis IX of France

M0005442: Prayer leaflet featuring an illustration of the leviation of Pope Pius VII while Reading Mass

M0005443: Oil painting of Saint Lucy and Saint Agatha

M0005444: Statue of Saint Clair, Bishop of Nantes

M0005445: Oil painting of St Brigid, 16th century

M0005446: Statues of the six healing Saints of Notre-Dame du Haut Moncontou Brittany

M0005447: Statue of Saint Tugen, Breton Saint invoked against Hydrophobia

M0005448: 18th century prayer leaflet with an illustration of Saint Apollinaris

M0005449: Cures taking place at a sacred well, oil on panel

M0005450: Document outlining the methods of the faith healer Prince Hohenlohe

M0005451: Pilgrims at Our Lady of Lourdes, France

M0005452: Two men standing in front of a display of records of cures at Lourdes

M0005453: Prayer leaflet depicting Saint Blaise

M0005454: Blessing Saint Blaise at Saint Etheldreda, Ely Place, London

M0005455: Illustration of the centres or Lotuses of Yoga

M0005456: Exterior of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome

M0005457: Cure of a Knight Templar's paralysed leg, stained glass window, c.1420

M0005458: Joseph Lister and staff at the Victoria ward, King's College Hospital, London

M0005459: Portrait of Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)

M0005460: Medal from 1694 depicting the Capture of Chios

M0005461: Interior of the pharmacy of Santa Maria Novella, Florence: perfume department

M0005462: Interior of the pharmacy of Santa Maria Novella, Florence: perfume department

M0005463: Interior of an apothecary's shop, 17th century

M0005464: Interior of an apothecary's shop, 18th century

M0005465: Interior of the pharmacy at the Ospedale del Santa Spirito, Rome

M0005466: Portrait of Sir John Floyer (1649-1734)

M0005467: Bust of Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur (1683-1757)

M0005468: Portrait of Oskar Minkowski (1858-1931)

M0005469: Portrait of Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard (1817-1894)

M0005479: Scene illustrating "The duel of the physicians", from the Khamsa of Nizami

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M0005375: Saints Cosmas and Damian, oil painting

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