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Reproduction of a photograph showing various types of openings from trephining surgery. The skulls are from the prehistory fort Cinco Cerros in Peru.

Images from the photographic library

Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0003733-M0003843

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

M0003733: Silhouettes of hands on wall of cave

M0003734: Chart showing geological period and stone cultures

M0003735: Genealogical tree of man's ancenstry

M0003736: Schemata of scalp incisions made at various periods from Neolithic to Middle Ages

M0003737: Australian woman with scar formation on her chest and a blade to her right

M0003739: Splints from Ancient Egypt

M0003740: Splints from Ancient Egypt

M0003741: Female skull from Neolithic era

M0003742: Patient at advanced stage of Uta disease (also known as lupus vulgaris or tubercular lupus)

M0003743: Two Bopoto individuals with sharpened teeth, Northern Congo

M0003744: Facial scarification relating to the Mongo tribe, Upper Congo

M0003745: Group of women knocking out a girl's tooth, Kaytetye people, Australia

M0003746: Warumungu man lying down on the ground with gash in his thigh, Australia

M0003747: Cicatrization on the back, Latuka people

M0003748: Two instruments, black obsidian flakes

M0003749: Woman with lip decoration with a lip disc, Jur people / M0003750: Woman with lip and nose pierced, Moru people

M0003751: Stone lancets and scarificators / M0003752: Illustration of 13 pieces of Moxa

M0003753: Lesions on the vertex of a female skull

M0003754: Surgical instruments made from Obsidian

M0003755: Four trephined skulls from Pre-Columbian Peru

M0003756: Evidence of injuries and trephining in two skulls

M0003757: The healing of trephined wounds in three skulls

M0003758: Evidence of injuries and trephining in four skulls

M0003759: Evidence of injuries with evidence of incomplete trephining in skulls

M0003760: Various angles showing trephining in skull from Peru

M0003762: Evidence of trephining in two skulls

M0003762: Wellcome Historical Medical Library accession number press mark

M0003763: Peruvian trephining compared with Neolithic trephining

M0003764: Figures showing details of heavily injured skull

M0003765: Evidence of bone transplant by a Pre-Colombian surgeon in Peru

M0003767: American Institute of Pharmacy, Washington D.C, 1933

M0003768: American Institute of Pharmacy, Washington D.C, 1933

M0003769: Statue of Edward Jenner in Kensington Gardens, London

M0003770: Statue of Edward Jenner in Kensington Gardens, London

M0003771: Statue of Edward Jenner in Kensington Gardens, London

M0003772: Statue of Chaldean deity Damu, god of healing

M0003777: Wellcome Research Institute, main hall, c.1932

M0003778: Wellcome Museum of Medical Science display: prevention of intestinal infections

M0003779: Wellcome Museum of Medical Science display: skin diseases

M0003780: Wellcome Museum of Medical Science display: bacterial diseases

M0003781: Wellcome Museum of Medical Science display: malaria

M0003782: Exterior evening view of the Wellcome Research Institute Building, c.1932

M0003783: Wellcome Museum of Medical Science display: neoplasms

M0003784: Wellcome Museum of Medical Science display: leukaemia

M0003785: Wellcome Museum of Medical Science display: endocrine and food deficiency diseases

M0003786: Wellcome Museum of Medical Science display: blood diseases

M0003787: Wellcome Research Institute, switch room, c.1932

M0003788: Wellcome Research Institute, main entrance, c.1932

M0003789: Wellcome Museum of Medical Science display: nephritis

M0003790: Wellcome Museum of Medical Science display: aplastic anaemia

M0003792: Portrait of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)

M0003793: Portrait of Charles Thomas Jackson (1805-1880)

M0003794: Portrait of Valerius Cordus (1515-1544)

M0003795: Portrait of Sir Arthur Stanley (1869-1947)

M0003796: Portrait of Laurence

M0003797: Exterior evening view of the Wellcome Research Institute Building, c.1932

M0003798: Representation of anaesthesia produced by pressure, Ancient Egypt

M0003799: Woodcut "The Birth of Eve," 15th century

M0003800: Manuscript illustration "Gathering mandragora"

M0003802: Euresis, goddess of invention, presenting Mandragora (Mandrake) to Dioscorides

M0003803: Cuneiform and Hieroglyph inscriptions of Mandragora (Mandrake)

M0003804: Manuscript illustration "Gathering mandragora"

M0003805: A surgeon amputating a leg

M0003806: Manuscript illustration "Mandragora"

M0003807: Das Narrenschneiden ("The fool cutting") by Frans Hals

M0003808: Manuscript illustration "Gathering mandragora"

M0003809: Padua, entrance of the old anatomical theatre, 1623

M0003811: Portrait of Peter Chamberlen (1601–1683)

M0003812: Title page of an edition of Galen's work "Librorum Septima Classis"

M0003813: Interior of the Anatomical Theatre in Padua, Italy

M0003814: William Harvey plaque

M0003815: Skeleton of Charles Byrne, known as "the Irish Giant"

M0003816: Lavoisier in his laboratory

M0003817: Diagram for showing method of use of Laryngoscope

M0003818: Laennec examines a consumptive patient with a stethoscope in front of his students at the Necker Hospital, 1816

M0003819: Diagram for showing the method of use of the opthalmoscope

M0003820: Illustration of a human hand covered in mite bites

M0003821: Portrait of Charles Morehead (1807-1882)

M0003822: Reconstruction of a surgical operation in a late Stone Age culture

M0003823: Floor plan and elevation for a European barack at Deesa, India

M0003824: Floor plan and elevation for the Horse Artillery Hospital, Bangalore (Bengaluru)

M0003825: Drawing of the British army at rest in their barracks, India

M0003826: "Beginning of water pipe"

M0003827: "End of water pipe"

M0003828: "Indian drainage system"

M0003829: Nightingale, Notes of Nursing, 1859: title page

M0003830: Nightingale, Notes of Nursing, 1859: contents page

M0003831: Nightingale, Notes of Nursing, 1859: preface

M0003833: Exterior of an ambulance used by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 1930

M0003834: Interior of an ambulance used by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 1930

M0003835: Interior of a hospital barge, France

M0003836: First aid station, Abelenhof, Beligum

M0003837: Photograph of a group of nurses

M0003838: Photograph of participants at the Ninth International Course of the League of Red Cross Societies, Bedford College, London, 1928-1929

M0003761: Various types of trephined openings in skulls

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