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Portrait of Joseph-Francois Lafitau (1681-1746) French missionary and naturalist

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0011145-M0011254

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

M0011145: Cylinder seal showing suppliants approaching a shrine, seeking health / M0011146: Cylinder seal showing animals in combat and sacred symbols

M0011147: Clay model of a sheep's liver, Babylonian Temple School

M0011148: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: Assyro-Babylonian cylinder seals and sketches

M0011149: Assyro-Babylonian oil beaker

M0011150: Sketch of decoration shown on Assyro-Babylonian oil beaker.

M0011151: Jurin: An account of the success of inoculating the small pox, 1725

M0011152: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: the manufacture of Magdalenian bone needles

M0011153: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: three screw tourniquets

M0011154: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: acupressure pins introduced by James Young Simpson in 1859

M0011155: Case of suture needles, 18th century

M0011156: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: artery forceps

M0011157: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: pressure and torsion forceps for the control of haemorrhage, 19th century

M0011159: Relief in the tomb of Mereruka, Sakkara (Saqqara): feeding of poultry / M0011160: Relief in the tomb of Ptahhotep, Sakarra (Saqqara): hunting scene and boat building: right side

M0011161: Relief in the tomb of Ptahhotep, Sakarra (Saqqara): hunting scene and boat building: left side / M0011162: Relief in the tomb of Kegemni (Kagemni), Sakarra (Saqqara): Bird Snaring

M0011163: Relief in the tomb of Ty, Sakarra (Saqqara): agricultural scene / M0011164: Relief at the Botanical Garden of Thutmose III, Egypt: animals, birds and plants

M0011166: An alchemist in his laboratory

M0011167: A physician examining a urine flask brought by a young woman

M0011169: Circular saw for removing a portion of the tibia

M0011170: Circular saw designed by T. Machell, surgeon of Wolsingham

M0011171: Circular saw designed by T. Machell, surgeon of Wolsingham

M0011172: Circular saw with spare blade, sometimes called a skull plough

M0011173: Modification of the chain saw by Jacob von Heine

M0011175: Binaural stethoscope with differential and simple tubes

M0011176: Binaural stethoscope designed by Camman, 19th century

M0011177: Binaural stethoscope improved by George Herschell

M0011178: Balkan Beam and Thomas knee splint in use

M0011180: Surgical Instruments of the 16th century

M0011181: Medical Caricature

M0011182: R. Read "Brief account of the origin and progress of the patent syringe"

M0011183: Woodcut illustration of a syringe, 16th century

M0011184: Woodcut illustration of a syringe, 16th century

M0011185: Administration of an enema by means of a syringe

M0011186: Portrait of John Leake (1729-1792)

M0011187: Woman performing cupping on a person's bottom, early 14th century

M0011188: Hygiene Section: 17th International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913

M0011189: Portrait of William Withering (1741-1799)

M0011190: Portrait of Sir Dominic Corrigan (1802-1880)

M0011191: Portrait of Sir Thomas Lewis (1881-1945)

M0011192: Tabula of veins (upper half), by Vesalius

M0011193: Tabula of veins (lower half), by Vesalius

M0011194: Last section of the index to the tabula of veins, by Vesalius

M0011195: Portrait of Joseph von Mering (1849-1908)

M0011196: Portrait of Paul Langerhans (1847-1888)

M0011198: Captain James Cook setting out on his voyage

M0011199: Vertical section of a sailing ship.

M0011200: Hartlib: Chymical, medicinal, and chyrurgial, 1655: title page

M0011201: Hartlib: Chymical, medicinal, and chyrurgial, 1655: contents page

M0011202: Hartlib: Chymical, medicinal, and chyrurgial, 1655: first page of "Philaretus to Empyricus"

M0011203: Portrait of John Sims (1749-1831)

M0011204: Dental chair designed by Henry Gilbert

M0011205: "Tugging at a (high) eye-tooth" by Cruikshank, 1821

M0011206: "Handicraft" by Peake after Bunbury

M0011207: "Le baume d'acier" [The Steel Balm] by Boilly

M0011208: A dentist looking at a tooth of a female patient

M0011209: Portrait of Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794)

M0011210: Portrait of John Frere (1740-1807)

M0011211: Portrait of Bernard de Montfaucon (1655-1741)

M0011212: Reconstruction of an apothecary's shop

M0011214: Portrait of Hugh Falconer (1808-1865)

M0011215: Six cerauniae (thunder-bolts or thunderstones)

M0011216: Montfaucon: L'antiquité expliquée, 1719: title page

M0011217: Carl Friedrich W. Ludwig's haemodynamometer and kymograph

M0011218: "L'anxiété maternelle" [Maternal anxiety], E. de Barescut after Lebot

M0011219: "La pauvre femme en couche" [The poor woman in childbirth]

M0011220: A man showing his wife a newborn baby: illustration inspired by the work Guillaume le franc-parleur by Étienne Jouy

M0011221: A monthly nurse, who looks after a mother and a newborn baby for the first month after birth, c.1840

M0011222: "The Nurse"; anonymous

M0011223: A mother breastfeeding her child in a cottage while her dog sits at her feet

M0011224: "The Monthly Nurse", by J. Thompson, 1840, after D. Wilkie

M0011225: "Nothing Uncommon", by T. Fairland, 1842, after N.J. Crowley

M0011226: Portrait of Eduard Friedrich Weber (1806-1871) and Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795-1878)

M0011227: Portrait of Carl Ludwig (1816-1895)

M0011228: Comparitive series of simple stomach from different animals

M0011229: Comparative series of complex stomachs from different animals

M0011230: Comparative series of compound stomachs from different animals

M0011231: Skeleton of the flying Lemur

M0011232: Skeleton of the Tupinambis (Tegus)

M0011233: Skeleton of the Cassowary

M0011234: Skeleton of the Skate

M0011235: Skeleton of the Balistes (Triggerfish)

M0011236: Portrait of Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809-1885)

M0011237: Ramified nerve-cell

M0011238: Ciliated epithelium from the human windpipe

M0011239: The development of a hair

M0011240: Cells of fibrous tissue from a sheep embryo

M0011241: The cell structure of tissues

M0011242: Early form of camera applied to the microscope

M0011243: International table of Atomic weights

M0011244: Table of Atomic weights determined by Berzelius, 19th century

M0011245: James Prescott Joule (1818-1889)

M0011246: Portrait of Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836)

M0011247: Portrait of Joseph Skoda (1805-1881)

M0011248: Portrait of Carl von Rokitansky (1804-1878)

M0011249: Portrait of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885)

M0011250: Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

M0011251: Liebig's apparatus for organic analysis, 19th century

M0011252: Liebig's condensers, 19th century

M0011253: Liebig's combination tube and drying apparatus, 19th century

M0011254: Poiseuille's haemodynamometer for the measurement of blood pressure

M0011213: Portrait of Joseph-Francois Lafitau (1681-1746)

M0011213: Portrait of Joseph-Francois Lafitau (1681-1746)

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