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Black and white reproduction of a photograph of a triptych illustrating three episodes in the life of Horace Wells (1815-1848), American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry.

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0001603-M0001706

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0001603: Photograph depicting a cleared field terraced to avoid the washing-away of the fertile top-soil by tropical rainfall

M0001604: Photograph of Cinchona ledgeriana in blossom

M0001605: Photograph of two men in the bough of a cinchona tree using a pulley to collect cinchona seeds

M0001606: Photograph depicting cinchona plantation workers selecting cinchona seeds

M0001607: Photograph depicting a cinchona plantation worker sowing the cinchona seed on the seed-beds

M0001608: Photograph of plantation workers tending to the young Cinchona plants in nurseries

M0001609: Photograph depicting female cinchona plantation workers grafting Cinchona ledgeriana on to Cinchona succirubra in a field

M0001610: Photograph of cinchona plantation workers in one of the nurseries with grafts of Cinchona ledgeriana, five months after grafting

M0001611: Photograph of 20-year old grafts of Cinchona ledgeriana in a plantation

M0001612: Photograph of plantation workers gathering bark from cinchona trees

M0001613: Photograph depicting the view across a cinchona plantation with workers drying cinchona bark in the sun in the foreground

M0001614: Photograph of two plantation workers inside a wooden building with a drying installation for cinchona bark

M0001615: Photograph of a group of plantation workers inside a wooden building cleaning dried cinchona bark

M0001616: Photograph of a group of plantation workers packing cinchona bark

M0001617: Photograph of a group of plantation workers and six horse-drawn used to transport cinchona bark to the station

M0001618: Photograph of a plantation worker leaning on the "famous" Cinchona ledgeriana grafted tree

M0001619: Photograph of a general view of the interior of a quinine extraction factory at Mangpoo, India, illustrating the cultivation of cinchona and the production of quinine

M0001620: Photograph of the view in a quinine purifying house, showing tilting pots and crude quinine crystallising troughs, illustrating the cultivation of cinchona and the production of quinine

M0001621: Photograph of the view in a quinine purifying house, showing crystallising troughs for the purified quinine, illustrating the cultivation of cinchona and the production of quinine

M0001622: Photograph of a disintegrator, with top half removed to show the disc with two of the beaters, illustrating the cultivation of cinchona and the production of quinine

M0001623: Photograph of the view in the grinding house, showing platform and one disintegrator with feeding bin, illustrating the cultivation of cinchona and the production of quinine

M0001624: Photograph of two plantation workers collecting seeds from a Cinchona tree on Munsong plantation, India

M0001625: Photograph of a Cinchona bark drying shed

M0001626: Photograph of a group of plantation workers collecting Cinchona bark on Munsong plantation, India

M0001627: Photograph of two plantation workers removing Cinchona bark from a selected tree for analysis, on Munsong plantation, India

M0001628: Photograph of a plantation worker standing in front of Cinchona succirubra trees on Munsong plantation, India

M0001629: Photograph of the view of a a ridge covered with Cinchona ledgeriana at Munsong plantation, India

M0001630: Photograph of two plantation workers sowing Cinchona seed, in a nursery bed, on Munsong plantation

M0001631: Photograph of the view over a Cinchona nursery on Munsong plantation, India

M0001632: Reproduction of an oil painting depicting Patrick Manson experimenting with filaria sanguinis-hominis in Amoy (Xiamen), China

M0001633: Reproduction of an oil painting of Joseph Bienaimé Caventou (1795-1877) by Catherine Buisson in 1930, after Elisa Desrivières in 1870

M0001634: Reproduction of an oil painting of Pierre-Joseph Pelletier (1788-1842) by Catherine Buisson in 1930, after Elisa Desrivières in 1870

M0001635: Portrait of Luke Howard, FRS (1772-1864), British manufacturing chemist and meteorologist

M0001636: Portrait of Sir Clement Robert Markham (1830–1916), British geographer

M0001637: Photographic portrait of Thomas N. R. Morson (1799-1874), English pharmaceutical entrepreneur

M0001641: Portrait of William Marsden (1796-1867), English surgeon and founder of the Royal Free Hospital, London

M0001642: Photographic portrait of Thomas Anderson, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta between 1861-1869

M0001643: Photograph of two statues depicting Aesculapius, Greco-Roman god of medicine, and Hygeia, Greco-Roman goddess of health and hygiene from Riccardi, Florence

M0001644: Photograph of an ink polygraph by Dr James Mackenzie (1853-1925), British heart surgeon

M0001645: Engraving of a blood transfusion from a dog (canine) to a patient (human), circa 1692

M0001646: Reproduction of a price list of new chemical preparations employed as medicines by T. Morson, 1882

M0001647: Portrait of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), British botanist and explorer

M0001648: Portrait of Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791-1868), English doctor

M0001649: Reproduction of a plan of Chelsea Physic Garden, engraving by Sutton Nicholls, 1725

M0001650: Reproduction of a plan of Chelsea Physic Garden, engraving by B. Cole, 1732

M0001651: Reproduction of a copper tablet recording the stone laid by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) in the Chelsea Physic Garden, London

M0001652: Reproduction of a watercolour drawing of the grinding mill of the Society of Apothecaries, 1788

M0001653: Reproduction of an illustration (fig. 1) of the anatomy and physiology of the eye from a manuscript by Roger Bacon (1214?-1294) from a journal article

M0001654: Reproduction of an illustration (fig. 2) of the anatomy and physiology of the eye from a manuscript by Roger Bacon (1214?-1294) from a journal article

M0001655: Reproduction of an illustration (fig. 3) of the anatomy and physiology of the eye from a manuscript by Roger Bacon (1214?-1294) from a journal article

M0001656: Reproduction of an illustration (fig. 4) of the anatomy and physiology of the eye from a manuscript by Roger Bacon (1214?-1294) from a journal article

M0001657: Reproduction of an illustration (fig. 5) of the anatomy and physiology of the eye from a manuscript by Roger Bacon (1214?-1294) from a journal article

M0001658: Reproduction of two illustrations (fig. 6 and fig. 7) of the anatomy of the eye and brain by Johann Peckham or John Peckham (d.1292) possibly from a journal article

M0001659: Reproduction of an illustration (fig. 8) of the anatomy of the eye by Johann Peckham or John Peckham (d.1292) from a journal article

M0001660: Reproduction of an illustration (fig. 9) of the anatomy of the eye by Johann Peckham or John Peckham (d.1292) from a journal article

M0001661: Reproduction of an illustration (fig. 10) of the anatomy of the eye by Johann Peckham or John Peckham (d.1292) from a journal article

M0001662: Reproduction of an illustration (fig. 11) in a manuscript by Johann Peckham or John Peckham (d.1292) from a journal article

M0001663: Reproduction of of two illustrations (fig. 12 and fig. 13) of the anatomy of the eye by Johann Peckham or John Peckham (d.1292) from a journal article

M0001664: Reproduction of an illustration of the anatomy of the eye possibly from a manuscript by Witelo (approximately 1220-approximately 1279) from a journal article

M0001665: Reproduction of an illustration of the anatomy of the eye possibly from a manuscript by Witelo (approximately 1220-approximately 1279) from a journal article

M0001666: Reproduction of an illustration of the anatomy of the eye from a manuscript by Witelo (approximately 1220-approximately 1279) from a journal article

M0001667: Illustration of the eye by Johann Peckham or John Peckham (d.1292) from a journal article

M0001668: Illustration of the eye by Johann or John Peckham (d.1292) from a journal article

M0001669: Reproduction of an oil painting of an apothecary (a man using pestle and mortar)

M0001670: Reproduction of a photographic portrait of Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton (1844-1916), Scottish physician

M0001671: Photographic portrait of Dr. Carl Ferdinand Reichel (1800-1860), German pharmacist

M0001672: Photograph of the round tower and arch to gateway of the Castle of Chinchón, Spain

M0001673: Photograph depicting the entrance, and the crest above the gate, of the Castle of Chinchón, Spain

M0001674: Photograph of the ruined round tower on one of the corners of the Castle of Chinchón, Spain

M0001675: Photograph of a wide view of the walls and entrance of the Castle of Chinchón, Spain

M0001676: Photograph of a plant specimen of the leaves of Cinchona ledger anglica

M0001677: Photograph of a plant specimen of two leaves of Cinchona ledger anglica

M0001678: Photograph of a plant specimen of five leaves of Cinchona ledger anglica

M0001679: Photograph of a plant specimen of four leaves of Cinchona ledger anglica

M0001680: Photograph of Cinchona calisaya and Cinchona peruviana growing in the greenhouse of John Eliot Howard, Tottenham. Photographed by W[illiam] Dillworth Howard

M0001681: Photograph of Cinchona calisaya anglica, etc., growing in the greenhouse of John Eliot Howard, Tottenham. Photographed by W[illiam] Dillworth Howard

M0001682: Illustration of lignum febrium or tree of fevers

M0001683: Reproduction of a print titled Spiritus Paludum [the spirit of the marches] by Maurice Sand (1823-1889), French writer, artist and entomologist

M0001684: Self portrait of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) suffering from malaria

M0001685: Reproduction of a portrait of Sir Morell Mackenzie (1837-1892), British physician and one of the pioneers of laryngology

M0001686: Portrait of John Avery (1807-1855), surgeon

M0001687: Portrait of Johann Nepomuk Czermak (1828-1873), Austrian-German physiologist

M0001688: Printed silhouette of Robert Liston (1794-1847), Scottish surgeon

M0001689: Line illustration of a bust of "Cicéron" or Marcus Cicero (106 BC-43 BC)

M0001690: Reproduction of a line illustration of a bust of "Hérodote" or Herodotus, from La Rousse

M0001693: Reproduction of a medical licence entry for "Marie Rose"

M0001694: Reproduction of a medical licence entry for "Elizabeth Wheatland"

M0001695: Reproduction of a medical licence entry beginning "Thomas Heuile"

M0001696: Reproduction of a medical licence entry for "Eleanor Woodhouse"

M0001697: Reproduction of a medical licence entry beginning "Admisso George"

M0001698: Reproduction of an unidentified medical licence entry beginning "Johannes"

M0001699: Reproduction of an unidentified medical licence entry beginning "To all Christian people to whome…"

M0001700: Reproduction of a lithograph of a group of "La malaria" by Louis Français (1814-1897) in 1850, after the original artist Antoine-Auguste-Ernest Hébert (1817-1908)

M0001701: Reproduction of a chalk drawing of the Temple de la Fievres possibly made after a drawing by Charles-Michel-Ange Challe

M0001702: Reproduction of a oil painting of José Celestino Mutis (1732-1808), Spanish priest, botanist and mathematician

M0001703: Photograph of a bust of Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836), French botanist

M0001704: Photograph of a bust of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841), Swiss botanist

M0001705: Photograph of a plant specimen of Cinchona ledgeriana, Java, 1890

M0001706: Photograph of a plant specimen of Cinchona ledgeriana from a plantation in Lembang, Java

M0001692: Photograph of a triptych illustrating three episodes in the life of Horace Wells (1815-1848), American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry

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M0001692: Photograph of a triptych illustrating three episodes in the life of Horace Wells (1815-1848), American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry

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