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Four display boards from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum titled "Egyptian Creation Myth".

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0005897-M0005999

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0005897: Thymus vulgaris, from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005898: Myristica fragrans (Nutmeg), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005899: Cinnamonum camphora (Camphor), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005900: Cinnamonum Zeylanicum (Cinnamon), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005901: Santalum Album, from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005902: Juniperus Communis (Juniper), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005903: Vanilla Planifolia (Vanilla), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005904: Iris Florentina (Orris root), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005905: Andropogan Nardus (Russa grass), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005906: The creation of Adam and Eve, Orvieto Cathedral

M0005907: The creation of Eve, Orvieto Cathedral

M0005908: God blesses the 7th day. Detail of the mosaic from the Cupola of Creation in St. Mark's Basilica, Venice

M0005909: Man receives the breath of life. Detail of the mosaic from the Cupola of Creation in St. Mark's Basilica, Venice

M0005910: The six days of the Creation

M0005911: Window design: the creation of the firmament and of the sun and moon

M0005912: Window design: the creation of birds and of light

M0005913: Window design: the creation of man and of trees

M0005914: Aconitum Ferox, from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005915: Papaver somniferum (opium poppy), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005916: Erythroxylon Coca, from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005917: Conium Maculatum (hemlock), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005918: Datura stramonium (jimsonweed), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005919: Atropa Belladonna (deadly nightshade), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005920: Humulus Lupulus (hops), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005921: Cannabis Sativa, from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005922: Veratrum Viride (Indian poke), from Bentley and Trimen: Medicinal plants (1880)

M0005923: Egyptian papyrus: section 1 of 6

M0005924: Egyptian papyrus: section 2 of 6

M0005925: Egyptian papyrus: section 3 of 6

M0005926: Egyptian papyrus: section 4 of 6

M0005927: Egyptian papyrus: section 5 of 6

M0005928: Egyptian papyrus: section 6 of 6

M0005929: Chloroform inhaler and nitrous oxide gas apparatus, from Coxeter: Catalogue of Surgical Instruments and Aparatus (1870)

M0005930: Nitrous oxide gas apparatus, from Coxeter: Catalogue of Surgical Instruments and Aparatus (1870) / M0005931: Nitrous oxide gas apparatus, from Coxeter: Catalogue of Surgical Instruments and Aparatus (1870)

M0005932: Nitrous oxide gas apparatus, from Coxeter: Catalogue of Surgical Instruments and Aparatus (1870) / M0005933: Nitrous oxide gas apparatus, from Coxeter: Catalogue of Surgical Instruments and Aparatus (1870)

M0005934: Spray producers, from Arnold: Catalogue of Surgical Instruments (1873) / M0005935: Nitrous oxide gas apparatus, from Arnold: Catalogue of Surgical Instruments (1873)

M0005936: Nitrous oxide gas apparatus, from Arnold: Catalogue of Surgical Instruments (1873) / M0005937: Nitrous oxide gas apparatus, from Arnold: Catalogue of Surgical Instruments (1873)

M0005938: Portrait of Sir Richard Quain (1816-1898)

M0005939: Portrait of Govert Bidloo (1649-1713)

M0005940: Fumigation hole used by Middle Eastern women before childbirth

M0005941EA: Two women undertaking a fertility rite

M0005941EB: A woman undertaking a fertility rite

M0005942: Medicina Curiosa (June 1684): title page

M0005943: Medicina Curiosa (June 1684): the organ of hearing

M0005944: Medicina Curiosa (June 1684): treatment of the ear

M0005945: Medicina Curiosa (October 1684): title page

M0005946: Portrait of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)

M0005947: Portrait of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)

M0005948: Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

M0005949: Medicina Curiosa (June 1684), volume 1

M0005950: Description of five cupping glasses

M0005951: Five cupping glasses

M0005952: Gallery of Shell posters / M0005952EB: Gallery of Shell posters

M0005953: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: "The Origin of the World by Creation Out Of Primeval Water"

M0005954: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: "Belief in Creation by a High God"

M0005955: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: "Babylonian and Assyrian Creation Myth"

M0005956: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: "Babylonian and Assyrian Creation Myth"

M0005957: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: "Babylonian and Assyrian Creation Myth"

M0005958: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: "The Ancient Mexican Creation Myth"

M0005959: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: "The Ancient Mexican Creation Myth"

M0005960: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: "The Origin of the World by Creation Out Of Primeval Water", key to map of the world

M0005961: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: "The Origin of the World by Creation Out Of Primeval Water", key to map of the world, accompanying text

M0005962: "Chart suggestive of the evolution of the mammals"

M0005963: "Diagram suggestive of the evolution of plant and animal life"

M0005964: "Diagram suggestive of the evolution of the primate"

M0005965: "Diagram suggestive of the further evolution of living forms"

M0005966: Display of four diagrams suggestive of the evolution of different living forms

M0005968: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: preface and prologue to the six days of creation

M0005969: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: Epilogue to the six days of creation and the creation of man and woman

M0005970: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: representations of the six days of creation

M0005971: Portrait of John William Ballantyne (1861-1923)

M0005972: Portrait of Alexander Bruce (1854-1911)

M0005973: Portrait of John Thomson (1856-1926)

M0005974: Portrait of Robert Milne Murray (1855-1904)

M0005975: Indian woman doctor selling medicaments by the roadside

M0005976: A group of men and women sitting outside a building, South Africa

M0005977: Hausa traditional healer, West Africa

M0005978: Head of the Guild of Herbalists, north Nigeria

M0005979: Traditional healer with surgical instruments, north Nigeria

M0005980: Nupe diviner, north Nigeria

M0005981: Traditional healer driving out sickness from a patient

M0005982: Men sweeping sickness away from two boys

M0005983: Traditional healer holding his surgery hour

M0005984: Traditional healer standing between his two female assistants

M0005985: Mapuche traditional healer treating a patient, South Chile

M0005986: Exterior of Pontes' Pharmacy in Granada, Spain

M0005987: Interior of Pontes' Pharmacy in Granada, Spain

M0005988: Interior of Pontes' Pharmacy showing back room, in Granada Spain

M0005989: Interior of Pontes' Pharmacy showing book case, in Granada, Spain

M0005990: Saint Agatha, carved panel from the monastery of Santo Domingo near Granada, 1580

M0005991: Saint Apollonia, carved panel from the monastery of Santo Domingo near Granada, 1580

M0005992: Saints Cosmas and Damian, oil painting

M0005993: Books purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum from Granada, Spain

M0005994 : Portrait of Noel Paton (1859-1928)

M0005995: Portrait of David Berry Hart 1(851-1920)

M0005996: Portrait of Sophia Jex-Blake (1840-1912)

M0005997: St. Keyne's Well, Cornwall, Rocking Stones, Pontypridd and Fontaine de Saint Servez, Breton

M0005998: Fairy charm painted on a wall.

M0005999: Fairy Charm, sign on a Cottage Wall

M0005967: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: "Egyptian Creation Myth"

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M0005967: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: "Egyptian Creation Myth"

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