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Cover of the songsheet for "Les Medicins: Fable de la Fontaine" composed by T.H. Ymbert

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0018301-M0018439

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0018301: Portrait of Edward William Murphy (1802-1877)

M0018310: Female anatomical fugitive sheet, 1539

M0018311: Portrait of Sir Archibald Edward Garrod (1857-1936)

M0018312: Portrait of Sir William Jenner (1815-1898)

M0018313: Portrait of Pierre-Joseph Macquer (1718-1784)

M0018314: Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire: monks infirmary from the South-West

M0018315: Furness Abbey: the main drain passing through the kitchen

M0018316: Cistercian Abbey at Maubuisson showing the latrines

M0018317: Cistercian Abbey at Ourscamp showing the exterior of the infirmary

M0018318: Interior of the Cistercian Abbey at Ourscamp

M0018319: Pharmacy at the Hospital of St. John of Bruges

M0018320: Pharmacy at the Hospital of St. John of Bruges

M0018322: Portrait of Thomas Fitzpatrick (1832-1900)

M0018323EA: Male anatomical fugitive sheet, c.1545

M0018323EB: Male anatomical fugitive sheet, c.1545

M0018324: Portrait of William Sharpey (1802-1880)

M0018325: Portrait of Augustus Volney Waller (1816-1870)

M0018331EA: Carved wooden effigy of a pregnant woman, Ivory Coast: front view

M0018331EB: Carved wooden effigy of a pregnant woman, Ivory Coast: side view

M0018335: Burial basket surmounted by anthropmorphic head, Gabon

M0018348: Portrait of King James VI of Scotland and I of England (1566-1625)

M0018349: Portrait of Cotton Mather (1663-1728)

M0018350: Portrait of Increase Mather (1639-1723)

M0018351: Portrait of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)

M0018352: Portrait of Charles James Blasius Williams (1805-1889)

M0018353EA: Ten historiated initials from Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica, 1555

M0018353EB: Five historiated initials from Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica, 1555

M0018354: Illustration of the anatomy of the brain, 1741

M0018355: Illustration oshowing amputation and cauterization of the breast, 1741

M0018356: W.J. Morton and his equipment showing the early use of x-rays, 1896

M0018357: Imagined reconstruction of Joseph Lister operating, 1896

M0018358: Surgeon's coat hanging in the operating theatre in the pre-antiseptic era

M0018359: Portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Serturner (1783-1841)

M0018360: Cramer's pharmacy at Paderborn where Serturner first isolated morphine

M0018361: A Jewish physician in traditional costume, 1568

M0018362: Diagram showing the action of swimming in man and fish, 1734

M0018366: A Connecticut physician in a car, 1906

M0018367: A physician in a very early form of car, 1906

M0018368: Lamp designed for lighting and heating food in the Crimea

M0018369: Portrait of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934)

M0018370: Portrait of Sir William Osler (1849-1919) at the age of 28

M0018371: Memorial portrait medallion of Sir William Osler (1849-1919)

M0018372: Original model for Sir Thomas Brock's medallion for Joseph Lister at Westminster Abbey.

M0018373: Advert for a doctor's frock coat, 1897

M0018374: William Cheselden giving an anatomical demonstration to six spectators in the anatomy-theatre of the Barber-Surgeons' Company, London

M0018375: Portrait of Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694)

M0018376: Portrait of Sir Charles Scarburgh (1615-1694)

M0018377: Portrait of a man thought to be Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770)

M0018378: Portrait of John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)

M0018379: Portrait of Sir William Osler (1849-1919)

M0018380: Illustration of the preparation of waterproof cloth for troops in the Crimea, 1855

M0018381: "The Benevolent Physician", mezzotint

M0018382: "The Rapacious Quack", mezzotint

M0018383: Portrait of Henri Conneau (1803-1877)

M0018384: Illustration of Napoleon III in captivity at Ham

M0018385: Apparatus for impregnating water with fixed air on a large scale to give it the properties of mineral water, 1781

M0018386: Apparatus for procuring various kinds of air, 1794

M0018387: Apparatus for making fixed air or artificial mineral water, 1799

M0018388: A rural physician giving an elderly woman a tablet, which she views suspiciously 1786

M0018389: "How merrily we live that Doctor's be, We humbug the public and pocket the fee", coloured mezzotint

M0018391: Syrup or pharmacy jar, English delftware, 18th century

M0018392, M0018393, M0018394: Five engravings from Mr. Punch among the doctors, 1933

M0018395, M0018396, M0018397: Five engravings from Mr. Punch among the doctors, 1933

M0018398: Botallo: Opera omnia, 1660: titlepage

M0018399: "The medical student" by Albert Smith

M0018400: "The Doctor" by A. J. Morris and Geo le Brunn

M0018401: "Dear Kind Doctor" by Joseph Tabrar

M0018403: Physician examining urine, 14th century

M0018404: Diagnosis scene by Jakob Toorenvliet

M0018405: "The love sick maiden" by Gerard Dou

M0018406: A doctor relaxing at home, possibly by Mieris

M0018407: Diagram for an experiment on the pressure of sap in plants, 1738

M0018408: Three mercurial gauges fixed to three branches of a vine in order to determine the pressure of the sap at various times, 1738

M0018409: Potain's sphygmomanometer

M0018410: Sphygmomanometer designed by Marey

M0018411: Early sphygmomanometer with arm-band by Hawksley, c.1906

M0018412: Oliver haemodynamometer or sphygmomanometer by Hawksley

M0018413: Early version of the Hill and Barnard sphygmomanometer with metal pump

M0018414: Sphygmomanometer designed by Professor Pachon and made by G. Boulitte

M0018415: Tonometer designed by Gustav Gaertner in 1899 and made by Schulmeister, Vienna

M0018416: Sphygmomanometer designed by Hill and Barnard and made by J. J. Hicks

M0018417: Portrait of Helen Keller (1880-1968) with Mark Twain (1835-1910)

M0018418: Withering's apparatus for impregnating water with fixed air

M0018423: Advertisement for the Medico-Clerical Cycles Agency

M0018424: Portrait of Sir David Bruce (1855-1931)

M0018425: People waiting in a doctor's waiting room, lithograph by G. de Cari

M0018426: Diagram of a barrel and water distillation showing the manufacture of mineral water, 1780

M0018429EA: Indenture attesting that William Budd was apprenticed, 1831: recto

M0018429EB: Indenture attesting that W. Budd was apprenticed, 1831: verso

M0018430: Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

M0018431: Silver pap boat with a pierced nipple spout at one end

M0018432EA: Silver gilt pap boat described as Dutch, 18th century

M0018432EB: Base of a silver gilt pap boat described as Dutch, 18th century

M0018433: Silver gilt bleeding basin, marked 1746-1747.

M0018434: Silver feeding cup or small posset pot by Andrews, 1698

M0018435: Perfume spray in the form of a syringe with a rose at the end, 18th century

M0018436: Pocket silver microscope made by James Clark, c.1775

M0018437: Silver nipple shield, 1829 / M0018438: Silver eyebath

M0018439: Pocket surgical instrument case with instruments, 1707

M0018402: "Les Medicins: Fable de la Fontaine" by T. H. Ymbert

M0018402: "Les Medicins: Fable de la Fontaine" by T. H. Ymbert

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