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A page headed prologus from Maimonides, Moses: Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni, Bologna: F. (Plato) de Benedictis for Benedictus Hectoris, 1489.

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0007990-M0008094

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0007990: Drawing of Padua in the 15th century

M0007991: Physician lecturing to students: miniature from "The Chirurgie" of Guy de Chauliac, 15th century

M0007992: Two physicians examine a man with leprosy

M0007993: Plague scene

M0007994: First page of Hieronymus Fracastorius' poem Syphilis sive morbus gallicus

M0007995: Woodcut showing votive offerings of wax

M0007996: Hospital for Infants in Pistoia, Italy

M0007997: Portrait of Petrarch (1304-1374)

M0007998: Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340s-1400)

M0007999: Healing of Abbess and Nun by St. Cuthbert Girdle, early 12th century.

M0008000: St Cuthbert healing a young man with plague, 12th century

M0008001: Healing of St Cuthbert's knee by a stranger, 12th century

M0008002: St Cuthbert curing a child dying from plague, 12th century

M0008003: St. Cuthbert healing the wife of Hildmaer who was plagued by demons, 12th century.

M0008004: Note of a consultation of Michael Scot, Bologna, 1221

M0008005: Medical lecture at Bologna

M0008006: Proverbs of Solomon, Gutenberg Bible, 15th century

M0008007: Woman washing clothes and beating them in the stream with wooden "hands", 14th century

M0008008: King David's lust, Old Testament miniature

M0008010: The Dream of Saint Helena, by Paolo Veronese (1528-1588)

M0008011: The Arms given to the Company of Surgeons of London in 1492

M0008012: Diploma granted by Master and Warden of the Barber Surgeons of London to Robert Anson enabling him to practice as a surgeon, 8 August 1497

M0008013: Avicenna expounding pharmacy to his pupils

M0008014: Mediaval infirmary, from a 13th century manuscript

M0008015: Attack on a castle, c.1460, from Salzman: English life in the middle ages (1926)

M0008016: Sir Henry Wellcome's Diploma, Knight Templers

M0008017: Sir Henry Wellcome's certificate of life membership of the American Pharmaceutical Society

M0008018: Portrait of Florentinus Thaddaeus [Taddeo Alderotti] (1223-1303)

M0008020: Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498)

M0008021: Portrait of Pope John XXI (c.1215-1277)

M0008022: Portrait of Ramon Llull (c.1232-c.1315)

M0008023: Ramon Llull's scientific arbor in Barcelona

M0008024: Treatment of patients, from Thesaurus Pauperum

M0008026: Portrait of Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936)

M0008027: Portrait of Reverend Solomon Cummings Wellcome (1827-1876), Sir Henry Wellcome's father

M0008029: Portrait of William Worrell Mayo (1819-1911)

M0008030: Burroughs Wellcome and Co. wharf and warehouse

M0008031: Burroughs Wellcome and Co. storage warehouses, London.

M0008032: Business card and two labels for S. C. Wellcome & Co.

M0008033: Display of surgical instruments

M0008034: Log Cabin School Garden City, Minnesota

M0008035: Part of an altar from a Roman fort at Hadrian's Wall

M0008036: Pereira: Novae veraeque medicinae, title page

M0008037: Pereira: Novae veraeque medicinae, final page

M0008038: Isidore of Seville: Etymologiae (1472): first page

M0008039: Isidore of Seville: Etymologiae (1472): index page

M0008040: Ketham: Libro de medicina llamado compendio, 1517: title page

M0008041: Ketham: Libro de medicina llamado compendio, 1517: final page

M0008042: Saladino: El Compendio de los Boticarios, 1515: title page

M0008043: Saladino: El Compendio de los Boticarios, 1515: last page

M0008044: Nicolas Monardes: Dos libros, 1565: title page

M0008045: Nicolas Monardes: Dos libros, 1565: last page

M0008046: Lobera de Avila: Vanquete de nobles cavalleros, 1530: title page

M0008047: Lobera de Avila: Vanquete de nobles cavalleros, 1530: colophon

M0008048: Reproduction of the title page of Maimonides: Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni, 1489

M0008050: Maimonides: Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni, 1489: last page

M0008051: Pope John XXI: Libro de medicine llama..., 1535: title page

M0008052: Pope John XXI: Libro de medicine llama..., 1535: final page

M0008053: Rocha: Digna redargnito, 1523: title page

M0008054: Rocha: Digna redargnito, 1523: last page

M0008055: de Chauliac: El inventario…: title page

M0008056: de Chauliac: El inventario…: final page

M0008057: Ketham: Epilogo en medicina

M0008058: Ketham: Epilogo en medicina

M0008059: Pope John XXI: Thesaurus Pauperum, 1485: final page

M0008060: Pope John XXI: Thesaurus Pauperum, 1485

M0008061: Ketham: Fasciculus medicinae, 1495: title page

M0008062: Ketham: Fasciculus medicinae, 1495: last page

M0008063: Isidore of Seville: Etymologiae

M0008064: Isidore of Seville: Etymologiae

M0008065: Commentary of Avicenna, Salamanca, 1603-4

M0008066: Commentary of Avicenna. Salamanca, 1603-4.

M0008067: Libro de la Cofradia de los Gloriosos Maritres San Cosme San Damian…": cover

M0008068: Libro de la Cofradia de los Gloriosos Maritres San Cosme San Damian…": a folio

M0008069: Libro de la Cofradia de los Gloriosos Maritres San Cosme San Damian…": final folio

M0008070: Medieval amulet to protect mother and child during childbirth

M0008071: Map of Britain in 626 A.D.

M0008073: Illustration from a Gaelic medical manuscript, 15th century

M0008074: Gaelic Medical manuscript, 15th C

M0008075: Soutra Aisle: remains of the House of the Holy Trinity

M0008076: Interior of Trinity Hospital, Edinburgh, as it appeared in the early 19th century

M0008077: Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen with its chapel

M0008078: Hospital of Our Lady, Edinburgh

M0008079: Remains of the chapel attached to Maison Dieu, Scotland

M0008080: May of Edinburgh in 1544

M0008081: Blackfriars Wynd, looking from the Cowgate

M0008082: Old Tolbooth and St. Giles Church, Edinburgh

M0008083: Part of a map of Aberdeen in 1661

M0008084: Old college of Glasgow and Blackfriars Chapel, c.1690

M0008085: Amputation instruments, from Lowe: A discourse of the whole art of chyrurgerie

M0008086: A truss, from Lowe: A discourse of the whole art of chyrurgerie

M0008087: Kings College, Aberdeen c.1661

M0008088: Travelling medicine chest belonging to Sir Stuart Threipland (1716-1805)

M0008089: Old Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh: exterior

M0008090: Portrait of Sir James Sandilands (c.1511-c.1596)

M0008091: Portrait of Adam Drummond (1679-1758)

M0008092: Portrait of Prospero Sonsino (fl.1890s)

M0008093: Portrait of Andrew Plummer (1697-1756)

M0008094: Portrait of Alexander Wood (1725-1807)

M0008049: Maimonides: Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni, 1489: prologus

M0008049: Maimonides: Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni, 1489: prologus

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