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Black and white reproduction of a painting depicting Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) dissecting a body in secret by Ernest Board (1877-1934).

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0001809-M0001911

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0001809: Reproduction of an image with the caption "De molens voor het fijnmalen der monsters" from an unknown publication

M0001810: Reproduction of an image captioned "Oude Kina Etablissement (Entrepotdok)"

M0001811: Reproduction of two images captioned "Kisten met Snitsels" (top) and "Laboratorium van het Kinabureau te Amsterdam" (bottom)

M0001812: Reproduction of a photograph of a display case of cinchona samples from N. V. Blauw-Vriesveem's collection, from a publication

M0001813: Reproduction of two photographs of mills for crushing cinchona bark from a publication

M0001814: Reproduction of a photograph showing the machinery used to fill sacks with crushed cinchona bark, possibly taken during a visit to the Kina Bureau and establishments in Amsterdam, 1924

M0001815: Reproduction of a photograph showing the inside of a N.V. Blauw-Vriesveem cinchona warehouse, possibly taken during a visit to the Kina Bureau and establishments in Amsterdam, 1924

M0001816: Photograph of a man from a Catholic brotherhood (cofradía) during the annual tribute of the Passion of Jesus Christ called Holy Week (Semana Santa) in Seville, Andalucia during Easter

M0001817: Photograph of a procession of Catholic brotherhoods (cofradía) during the annual annual tribute of the Passion of Jesus Christ called Holy Week (Semana Santa) in Seville, Andalucia during Easter

M0001818: Reproduction of a photograph of a pair of "woad merchants" statues at Amiens Cathedral, France

M0001819: Reproduction of a photograph of a dried calabash vessel containing a concentrated extract of "quina" or cinchona

M0001820: Reproduction of an illustrated portrait in profile of Thomas Southwood Smith (1788 – 1861), English physician and sanitary reformer

M0001821: Reproduction of a portrait of Sir John Simon (1816-1904), English pathologist, surgeon and public health officer

M0001822: Reproduction of a portrait of Juan Luis Vives (1493-1540), Spanish (Valencian) scholar and Renaissance humanist

M0001823: Reproduction of a portrait of Thomas Robert Malthus (1766- 1834)/Reproduction of a photograph captioned "Joyce Green (Fever) Hospital, near Dartford"

M0001824: Reproduction of an oil painting on canvas depicting an abdominal section performed on a woman at Vienna, 10 November 1549 by Ernest Board (1877-1934)

M0001825: Reproduction of a portrait of Leeuwenhoek with his microscope, an oil painting by Ernest Board

M0001826: Reproduction of An invocation to I-em-hetep, the Egyptian deity of medicine, an oil painting by Ernest Board

M0001827: Reproduction of The Abbaye of Saint Antoine, the Sologne, France. Pilgrims suffering from ergotism (St Antony's fire) approaching the infirmary in which the relics and bones of the saint are preserved which were believed to cure the disease, an oil painting by Ernest Board

M0001829: Reproduction of a painting depicting Albucasis, also known as Al-Zahwari or Abul-Qasim Khalaf ibn Abbas al-Zahrawi (-1013?), blistering a patient in a hospital at Cordova 1100 AD, by Ernest Board

M0001830: Reproduction of an oil painting on canvas depicting Paracelsus (1493-1541) burning the books of the "fathers of medicine", 1526, by Ernest Board

M0001831: Reproduction of Mundinus, the Italian anatomist, making his first dissection in the anatomy theatre at Bologna, 1318, an oil painting by Ernest Board

M0001832: Reproduction of Rhazes (Razi), Persian physician and alchemist, in his laboratory at Baghdad, an oil painting by Ernest Board, circa 1912

M0001833: Reproduction of a painting depicting a woman visibly in pain reclining against a man, while another is holding her wrist to his mouth

M0001834: Reproduction of an oil painting on canvas depicting the healing art in pre-historic times by Ernest Board

M0001835: Reproduction of Ambroise Paré using the ligature when amputating at the siege of Damvillers, 1552, an oil painting by Ernest Board

M0001836: Reproduction of Dioscorides describing the mandrake, an oil painting by Ernest Board, 1909

M0001837: Reproduction of Albertus Magnus expounding his doctrines of physical science in the streets of Paris circa 1245, an oil painting by Ernest Board

M0001838: Reproduction of Anglo-Saxon surgery, an oil painting by Ernest Board

M0001839: Reproduction of Guy de Chauliac bandaging the leg of Pope Clement VI at Avignon, while Petrarch, his enemy, jealous of his influence, watches him, circa 1348, an oil painting by Ernest Board

M0001840: Reproduction of Roger Bacon in his observatory at Merton College, Oxford, an oil painting by Ernest Board

M0001841: Reproduction of a portrait of John Bell (1763-1820), an oil painting by an unknown artist

M0001842: Reproduction of a portrait of Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton (1844-1916), writer on pharmacology and therapeutics. Original oil painting by Harry Herman Salomon (1860-1936)

M0001843: Reproduction of a head and shoulders portrait of John Abernethy (1764-1831), English surgeon, circa 1830

M0001844: Reproduction of a portrait of John Haygarth in an oval frame, line engraving by W. Cooke in 1801, after J. H. Bell

M0001845: Reproduction of a portrait of John Haygarth in a rectangular frame, line engraving by W. Cooke in 1827, after J. H. Bell

M0001846: Reproduction of an oil painting of Galen, Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire, by Ernest Board

M0001847: Reproduction of an oil painting depicting Lord Lister and the advent of antiseptic surgery, by Ernest Board

M0001848: Reproduction of an oil painting depicting the first use of ether in dental surgery used by dental surgeon William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) in 1846, by Ernest Board

M0001849: Photographic portrait of Major Walter Reed, M.D. (1851-1902), U.S. Army physician

M0001850: Reproduction of an illustration of a wooden table representing a bird and a tortoise possibly from the West Indies by W. M. R. Quick

M0001851: Illustration of two ancestral figures from New Guinea

M0001852: Reproduction of a indigenous circular design from New Guinea

M0001853: Reproduction of a photograph of two coins, from A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum: Caria, Cos, Rhodes, etc. by Barclay Head, 1897

M0001854: Portrait of Charles Ledger (1818-1905)

M0001855: Portrait of Edward Morell Holmes (1843–1930), British botanist and lecturer in materia medica

M0001857: Photograph of Edward Morell Holmes' wheelchair and desk where he worked until his death

M0001858: Photograph of the top-side of a piece of gold jewellery, possibly a necklace, made up of metal spirals with three teardrop-shaped pendants at one end

M0001859: Photograph of the under-side of a piece of jewellery, possibly a necklace, made up of metal spirals with three teardrop-shaped pendants at one end

M0001860: Photograph of a bust profile portrait of Hippocrates, possibly in the British Museum

M0001861: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001862: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001863: Book illustration depicting depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001864: Book illustration depicting depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001865: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001866: Book illustration possibly depicting the induction of labour

M0001867: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001868: Book illustration depicting the last stage of childbirth with the newborn infant and umbilical cord attached

M0001869: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001870: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001871: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001872: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001873: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001874: Book illustration depicting the late stage of childbirth

M0001875: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001876: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001877: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001878: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001879: Book illustration relating to childbirth

M0001880: Book illustration relating to childbirth

M0001881: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001882: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001883: Book illustration depicting a child and calf drinking milk from a cow

M0001884: Book illustration depicting "different ways of carrying children in Egypt"

M0001885: Book illustration depicting "Egyptian mourners carrying their children in a fold of clothes"

M0001886: Book illustration depicting "Ethiopian women carrying their children in baskets, after a painting by Thebes"

M0001887: Book illustration of a mother carrying a baby in a sling

M0001888: Book illustration of a mother washing a child outdoors

M0001889: Book illustration relating to childbirth

M0001890: Book illustration of a mother carrying a baby in a sling

M0001891: Book illustration depicting childbirth

M0001892: Book illustration of a group of women with musical instruments circling a pregnant woman, possibly depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0001893: Book illustration depicting childbirth with surgical intervention

M0001894: Three photographs depicting different views of the Università di Padova [Padua University] in Italy

M0001895: Reproduction of a photograph depicting city sanitation in Minoan Crete circa 1900BC / M0001895EB: Reproduction of "Patients of a thirteenth century doctor", drawings from the Cambridge manuscript of Roger of Salerno

M0001897EA: Two panoramic photographs depicting Aqua Claudia, ("the Claudian water"), an ancient Roman aqueduct that was one of nine which supplied Rome in A.D. 38 / M0001897EB: Landscape showing the breeding places for mosquitoes, as places where malaria may be transmitted, in London

M0001899EA: Reproduction of a photograph depicting a medical centre at the Temple of Isis at Philae / M0001899EB: Reproduction of a illustration depicting Avicenna (980-1037), originally reproduced from a fifteenth century Hebrew translation of The Canon of Medicine

M0001900EA: Reproduction of a photograph depicting a drainage system, dating before 3000 B.C., at Mohenjo-Daro [Sindh, Pakistan] / M0001900EB: Reproduction of a painting depicting an Arabic physician in consultation with a patient

M0001901EA: Reproduction of a photograph of a traditional healer from the Kakadu tribe sucking on the torso of a patient to remove a foreign body or evil spirit, Australia / M0001901EB: Reproduction of two illustrations depicting the gathering of samples and compounding drugs

M0001902EA: Reproduction of a photograph of two Arrernte people (an Aboriginal group in Central Australia) practicing Kurdaitcha, or a bone-pointing ritual / M0001902EB: Reproduction of a photograph of the Cloaca Maxima, Rome, Italy, one of the world's earliest sewage systems

M0001903EA: Reproduction of a sanitisation system at the ruins of Timgad, North Africa / M0001903EB: Reproduction of a photograph of a charm or amulet from Northern Queensland, Australia

M0001904: Reproduction of a photograph of Kenyan medicine men in ceremonial dress and an illustration of "The worm in Saxon medicine"

M0001905EA: Reproduction of an illustration of the interior of Temple of Asclepius [possibly in Epidaurus, Greece] / M0001905EB: Reproduction of a photograph of Assyrian medical texts on clay tablets

M0001906: Reproduction of votive reliefs in honour of Asklepios, the Greek the god of medicine / M0001906EB: Reproduction of a photograph of an Australian Aboriginal traditional healer with a magic healing crystal

M0001907: Two book illustrations depicting a reconstruction of Aklepian Temple building, Epidaurus; and the code of Hammurabi, circa 2000 BC

M0001908EA: Reproduction of a plan showing a birds eye view of the disinfecting station, Nottingham / M0001908EB: Reproduction of the plan and elevation of a proposed Isolation Hospital, Scarlet Fever and Diptheria Blocks for the County Borough of Southport

M0001909EA: Reproduction of a map of the London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, London and houses in the surrounding area, which have been coded to represent those in which scarlet fever has occurred / M0001909EB: Reproduction of the complete plan and elevation of a "proposed Isolation Hospital, Tuberculosis Pavilion" for the County Borough of Southport

M0001910: Reproduction of an incomplete plan and elevation of a proposed Isolation Hospital, Tuberculosis Pavilion for the County Borough of Southport, with the cross-section and end elevation covered/removed

M0001911: Reproduction of a photograph of a carved stone relief of Greek physician and patient

M0001828: Reproduction of an oil painting depicting Andreas Vesalius dissecting a body in secret by Ernest Board

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M0001828: Reproduction of an oil painting depicting Andreas Vesalius dissecting a body in secret by Ernest Board

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