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Reproduction of a set of diagrams made by Joseph Lister when observing the growth of Oidium Toruloides in a "Glass Garden" of fresh urine. Published in <i>Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh</i>,  vol.27, 1875

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0019598EC-M0019691

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0019598EC: Letter to Joseph Lister from Sir Hector C. Cameron, 1908: middle pages

M0019598ED: Letter to Joseph Lister from Sir Hector C. Cameron, 1908: middle pages

M0019598EE: Letter to Joseph Lister from Sir Hector C. Cameron, 1908: final page

M0019599EA: Letter from Joseph Lister to Sir William Turner, 1907: first page

M0019599EB: Letter from Joseph Lister to Sir William Turner, 1907: last two pages

M0019600EA: Letter to Joseph Lister from Sir William Turner, 1907: first and last pages

M0019600EB: Letter to Joseph Lister from Sir William Turner, 1907: middle two pages

M0019601: Letter from Joseph Lister to Sir William Turner, 1907

M0019602: First page of an essay by Joseph Lister titled "The Human Structure, Osteology", c.1840

M0019603: First page of an essay by Joseph Lister on atomic theory, c.1840

M0019604: Two pages of a holiday diary written by Agnes Syme, wife of Joseph Lister, 1892

M0019605: Two pages of a holiday diary written by Joseph Lister, 1894

M0019606: Joseph Lister's notes on Syme's lecture, c.1855

M0019607EA: Joseph Lister's resignation as Surgeon to Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, 1877: first page

M0019607EB: Joseph Lister's resignation as Surgeon to Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, 1877: final two pages

M0019608: Letter to Joseph Lister from the Holmsdale Cottage Hospital, 1893

M0019609: Letter to Joseph Lister from the Royal Eye Hospital, 1892

M0019611EA: Letter from Joseph Lister to brother his Arthur, 1869: first two pages

M0019611EB: Letter from Joseph Lister to brother his Arthur, 1869: middle two pages

M0019611EC: Letter from Joseph Lister to brother his Arthur, 1869: last two pages

M0019612EA: Letter from Joseph Lister to Mr Hilliard, 1870: first and last pages

M0019612EB: Letter from Joseph Lister to Mr Hilliard, 1870: middle two pages

M0019613EA: Letter from James Young Simpson to Thomas Nunnely, 1869: first and last pages

M0019613EB: Letter from James Young Simpson to Thomas Nunnely, 1869: middle two pages

M0019614: Note in Joseph Lister's hand regarding the preparation of catgut, c.1908

M0019615: Letter from Joseph Lister to Lynam, 1883 / M0019616: Letter from Joseph Lister to Goddard, 1900

M0019617EA: Letter to Joseph Lister from the President of the Royal Commission for the English Section of the French Exhibition, 1878: first page

M0019617EB: Letter to Joseph Lister from the President of the Royal Commission for the English Section of the French Exhibition, 1878: last two pages

M0019618: Painting of the Old Surgical Block, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh

M0019620: Diagrams showing on the growth of Oidium Toruloides observed by Joseph Lister

M0019621: Observations by Joseph Lister of bacteria and other micro-organisms

M0019622: Observations by Joseph Lister of the growth of Torula Ovalis

M0019623: Joseph Lister's Diploma of Honorary Membership of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, 1905

M0019624: New born son of Philip V of Spain being held by his mother Marie Louise of Savoy, engraving

M0019626: Portrait of Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim [Paracelsus] (c.1493-1541)

M0019627: Portrait of Alexis Carrel (1873-1944)

M0019628: Portrait of Laurence Frederick O'Shaughnessy (1900-1940)

M0019629: Portrait of Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815)

M0019631: Portraits of various members of the de Morny family

M0019632: Presentation for K. P. Wachsmann, staff member at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, September 1963

M0019633: Illustration of an osteoma growing in the eye, 1917

M0019634: Illustration of an Ooteoma of the mandible, 1917

M0019635: Illustration of a lipoma of the sole, 1917

M0019636: Illustration of racemose sarcoma of the neck of the uterus, 1917

M0019637: Illustration of a section of lung with nodules of sarcoma, 1917

M0019638: Illustration of a pelvis occupied by a large partially ossified chondroma, 1917

M0019639: Illustration of a periosteal sarcoma of the femur, 1917

M0019640: Illustration of a spindle-cell sarcoma of the fibula, 1917

M0019641: Illustration of changes produced in the ulna, radius and fibula by a myeloma, 1917

M0019642: Illustration of a periosteal sarcoma of the scapula, 1917

M0019643: Illustration of a sarcoma of the prostate of a boy aged seven, 1917

M0019644: Illustration of a sarcoma of the kidney, 1917

M0019645: Illustration from a plexiform neunoma from the back of a youth aged eighteen, 1917

M0019646: Illustration of a plexiform neuroma of the musculo-spinal nerve, 1917

M0019647: Illustration of a bilateral gliomatous enlargement of the pons and crura cerebri, 1917

M0019648: Illustration of an intracervical fibroid in sagittal section, 1917

M0019649: Illustration of a bi-cornate uterus of which each cornu contains an interstitial fibroid, 1917

M0019650: Illustration of a pregnant uterus with subserous fibroids, 1917

M0019651: Illustration of a sessile subserous fibroid, axial rotation involving twist of uterus and appendages, 1917

M0019652: Illustration of a gravid uterus with twin fibroids, 1917

M0019653: Illustration of a section of the uterus from which a sloughing fibroid had been removed, 1917

M0019654: Illustration of the sagittal section of a gravid uterus, 1917

M0019655: Illustration of an epithelial adontome, 1917

M0019656: Illustration of the thoracic duct and receptaculum permeated with cancerous material secondary to cancer of the rectum, 1917

M0019658EA: Illustration of lipoma arborescens of the shoulder joint, 1922

M0019658EB: Illustration of lipoma arborescens of the shoulder joint, 1922

M0019659: Illustration of the anterior fossae of the skull showing an osteoma arising in the left frontal sinus, 1922

M0019660: Illustration of an osteoma of the frontal sinus shown in section, 1922

M0019661: Illustration of a skeleton showing multiple exostoses, 1922

M0019662: Illustration of a boy aged ten with multiple exostoses, 1922

M0019663: Illustration of two examples of the upper end of the humerus showing a benign cyst, 1922

M0019664: Illustration of the breast in section containing a round-celled sarcoma, 1922

M0019665: Illustration of the uterus in sagittal section showing intramural and submucuous fibroids, 1922

M0019666: Illustration of a fibroid of the left broad ligament, 1922

M0019667: Illustration of a fibroid of small intestine in section, 1922

M0019668: Illustration of a lower jaw with radicular odontome in situ, 1922

M0019669: Illustration of a cancer arising in patch of psoriasis, 1922

M0019670: Illustration of a nipple dissected to show a dilated duct filled with a soft papillomatous mass, 1922

M0019671: Illustration of a section of mamma containing a papillomatous cyst, 1922

M0019672: Illustration of the larynx of a child showing warts, 1922

M0019673: Illustration of a cancer of the cardiac orifice of the oesophagus, 1922

M0019674: Illustration of a solitary polypus of the pelvic sigmoid colon, 1922

M0019675: Illustration of multiple polypi of large intestine, 1922

M0019676: Illustration of a cancerous leather-bottle stomach, 1922

M0019677: Illustration of a constricting cancer of the pelvic colon, 1922

M0019678: Illustration of a caecum with vermiform appendix and terminal portion of the ileum, 1922

M0019679: Illustration of the gall-bladder with a primary cancer arising in its neck, 1922

M0019680: Illustration of a cancer of the gall bladder, 1922

M0019681: Illustration of squamous-celled cancer of the gall-bladder, 1922

M0019682: Illustration of a cancerous and calcareous gall-bladder with infiltration of the liver, 1922

M0019683: Illustration of a cancerous gall-bladder containing a gall-stone "mill", 1922

M0019684: Illustration of a cancer of the ampulla, with a stone which had ulcerated through from the bile-duct, 1922

M0019685: Illustration of the kidney showing papillomas invading and blocking ureter, 1922

M0019686: Illustration of a papilloma of the bladder, 1922

M0019687: Illustration of the uterus in section, showing papillomas growing from the endometrium, 1922

M0019688: Illustration of a cancerous uterus in sagittal section, 1922

M0019689: Illustration of the pelvis viscera in section showing cancer of the cervix, 1922

M0019690: Illustration of a cancerous uterus in sagittal section, 1922

M0019691: Illustration of a papilloma of the fallopian tube, 1922

M0019619: Diagrams showing on the growth of Oidium Toruloides observed by Joseph Lister

M0019619: Diagrams showing on the growth of Oidium Toruloides observed by Joseph Lister

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