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M0009574: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: "Hall of Primitive Medicine", treatment

Photograph of a section of the museum's "Hall of Primitive Medicine" featuring displays concerning treatment.

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0009538-M0009643

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0009538: Geminus: Compendiosa, 1545: 2nd muscle tabula

M0009539: Geminus: Compendiosa, 1545: organs of nutrition

M0009540: Geminus: Compendiosa, 1545: birth figures

M0009541: Geminus: Compendiosa, 1545: anatomical instruments

M0009542: Geminus: Compendiosa, 1545: secunda figura integra

M0009545: Male figure showing veins and arteries, from Vesalius: De fabrica, 1543

M0009547: Male nude figure showing proportion, from Veslius: Andreae Vesalii Suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome, 1543

M0009548: Female nude figure showing proportion, from Veslius: Andreae Vesalii Suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome, 1543

M0009549: Plan of the ancient Greek city of Miletus

M0009550: Plan of the ancient Greek city of Priene

M0009551: Panorama of the ancient Greek city of Priene, according to German excavations of 1895-8

M0009552: Plan of the Roman city of Timgad

M0009553: Sewer under Bailgate, Lincoln

M0009554: Plan of Silchester, England

M0009555: Section of ancient Greek red-figure pottery decorated with athletes

M0009556: Ancient Greek red-figure pottery decorated with athletes

M0009557: Ancient Greek red-figure pottery decorated with athletes

M0009558: Page of an 11th century manuscript of Hippocrates' works

M0009559: Stone relief of a votive offering found at Golgoi in Cyprus

M0009560: Wellcome Historical Medical Library: plan of library and reading room

M0009561: Wellcome Historical Medical Library: library elevations

M0009562: Wellcome Historical Medical Library: card cabinet and reading room furniture

M0009563: Wellcome Historical Medical Library: steel stacks, north end

M0009564: Wellcome Historical Medical Library: steel stacks, mezzanine floor store room

M0009565: Portrait of Joseph Thomas Clover (1825-1882)

M0009566: Dubois chloroform apparatus

M0009567: Collection of spinal fluid

M0009568: Injection of an anaesthetic solution during a spinal anaesthesia procedure

M0009569: Autograph letter from Henry Hill Hickman (1800-1830) to King Charles X of France (1757-1836)

M0009570: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: "Prehistoric gallery"

M0009571: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: "Hall of Primitive Medicine"

M0009572: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: "Hall of Primitive Medicine", injuries

M0009573: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: "Hall of Primitive Medicine", display of tsantsa, or shrunken heads

M0009576: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: classical gallery, 1946

M0009577: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: Medieval gallery

M0009578: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: Medieval gallery

M0009579: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: two nail effigies, Congo, West Africa

M0009580: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: traditional healer of the Idiong Secret Society surrounded by his equipment

M0009581: Diagram representing the degree of oxygenation of the blood

M0009582: Illustration of the technique of administering pentothal

M0009583: Portrait of George Washington Crile (1864-1943)

M0009584: Portrait of James Tayloe Gwathmey (1862-1944)

M0009585: Injection of the anaesthetic solution into the rubber tubing of an intravenous drip apparatus

M0009586: Portrait of Joseph-Francois Malgaigne (1806-1865)

M0009587: Portrait of Antoine Joseph Jobert de Lamballe (1799-1867)

M0009588: Portrait of Franz Schuh (1804-1865)

M0009589: A traditional healer surrounded by onlookers, Fika, Nigeria

M0009590: A traditional healer, Maiduguri, Nigeria

M0009591: A Kavirondo traditional healer holding salves for wounds, east Africa

M0009592: Bangongo traditional healer who discovers suitable treatments by divination, the Congo

M0009593: Asclepius by a sick bed, marble relief, 4th century B.C.

M0009594: Asclepius by a sick bed, marble relief, 4th century B.C.

M0009595: Cranial operation depicted in a 4th century B.C. marble relief, from Laignel-Lavastine: Histoire generale de la medecine

M0009596: Relief of a surgeon found at the Asklepieion of Athens

M0009597: Latrines in the House of the Silver Wedding (Casa delle Nozze d'Argento), Pompei

M0009598: Manuscript illumination of Galen writing at a desk

M0009599: Manuscript illumination of Galen at a bedside

M0009600: Manuscript illumination of Galen lecturing on the use of limbs

M0009601: Manuscript illumination of Galen lecturing on the use of parts of man and elephant

M0009602: Manuscript illumination of Hippocrates, Asclepiades, and Erasistratus debating cathartics before the chair of Galen

M0009603: Manuscript illumination of Galen lecturing on elements

M0009604: Manuscript illumination of Plato, Anaxagoras and Democritus

M0009605: Ancient Greek scarab showing a woman drawing water from a fountain. 6th century B.C.

M0009606: Ancient Greek scarab showing a naken youth with a strigil, sponge and oil flask, 6th century B.C.

M0009608: Ancient Greek scarab showing a fly, 4th century B.C.

M0009608: Ancient Greek scarab showing a Chalcedony locust, late 5th or early 4th century BC.

M0009609: Ancient Greek chalcedony scarab showing a  crouching woman washing her hair over a basin, late 5th or early 4th century B.C.

M0009610: Carnelian scarab, youth wringing out his hair over a basin, 5th century B.C.

M0009611: Italian jewelry showing wounded warriors with bandages, 5th century B.C.

M0009612: Three items of Italian jewelry showing wounded warriors, 5th century B.C.

M0009613: Italian jewelry showing a warrior drawing an arrow out of his right foot,  5th century B.C.,

M0009614: Hellenic garnet, decorated with a butterfly over a rose, 3rd or 2nd century B.C.

M0009615: Pieces of jaspar decorated with a toad and a locust, Greco-Roman

M0009616: Greco-Roman jewelry decorated with an image of a cicada on a wine leaf

M0009617: Portrait of Celestyn Opitz (1810-1866)

M0009618: Portait of John Collins Warren (1778-1856)

M0009619: Apparatus used for the treatment of facial neuralgia by the inhalation of ether

M0009620: Ether inhalation apparatus

M0009621: Ether inhalation apparatus in use

M0009622: Ether inhalation apparatus

M0009623: Pages 1 and 3 of letter from Henry Hill Hickman to Thomas Andrew Knight, 1824

M0009624: Pages 2 and 4 of letter from Henry Hill Hickman to Thomas Andrew Knight, 1824

M0009625: Illustration showing use of an inhaler

M0009626: Portrait of Edward William Murphy (1802-1877)

M0009627: Portrait of Crawford Williamson Long (1815-1878)

M0009628: The Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1846-47

M0009629: Crawford Williamson Long's office and drug store

M0009630: Wall painting of garden scene from the villa of the Empress Livia at Prima Porta, Rome, 1st Century B.C.

M0009633: The Cloaca Maxima in Rome: various sections and a plan of its course

M0009634: Hewitt modification of Junker's Apparatus in use

M0009635: Mason's gag and the Hewitt modification of Junker's apparatus in use

M0009636: Illustration of the heart and blood vessels, from Eustachi: Opuscula anatomica, 1564

M0009637: Portrait of Carl Koller (1857-1944)

M0009638: Portrait of Arthur Ernest Sansom (1838-1907)

M0009639: Portrait of Samuel W. J. Merriman (1771-1852)

M0009640: Portrait of George Thompson Gream (1811-1888)

M0009641: Portrait of Francis Sibson (1814-1876)

M0009642: Portrait of Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-1896)

M0009643: Portrait of James Young Simpson (1811-1870)

M0009574: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: "Hall of Primitive Medicine", treatment

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