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M0000464: George A. Combe (1788-1858), Scottish lawyer and phrenologist

Portrait of George A. Combe (1788-1858), Scottish lawyer and phrenologist.

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0000409-M0000573

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0000409: Anatomy; skeleton from a Dresden manuscript, from Choulant: History and bibliography of anatomic illustration

M0000410: Skeleton, 14th century, from Choulant: History and bibliography of anatomic illustration

M0000411: Skeleton by Richard Helain, 1493, from Choulant: History and bibliography of anatomic illustration

M0000412: Pregnant woman and foetus, from Choulant: History and bibliography of anatomic illustration

M0000414: Male figure showing proportions, from Choulant: History and bibliography of anatomic illustration

M0000415: arterial system of a pregnant woman, from Choulant: History and bibliography of anatomic illustration

M0000416: Osteologic plate: male figure with proportions, from Choulant: History and bibliography of anatomic illustration

M0000418: Dr David Livingstone with his daughter

M0000422: Anatomical figure: skeleton, 17th century, from Choulant: History and bibliography of anatomic illustration

M0000423: Female anatomical figure, showing proportions.

M0000424: Male anatomical figure, showing proportions.

M0000425: Anatomical chart showing male and female proportions.

M0000426: Male anatomical figure, showing proportions.

M0000427: Anatomy: human proportions: female

M0000428: Female figure showing proportions.

M0000429: Male figures showing proportons in five ages.

M0000430: Male anatomical figure, showing proportions of a child and man

M0000431: A Khoekhoen woman displaying steatopygia

M0000432: Sheeps liver diagram with modern anatomical and Babalonian terms, from Choulant: History and bibliography of anatomic illustration

M0000435: Ventricles of the brain, 15th century

M0000436: Woodcut of head showing cerebral ventricles, from Reisch: Margarita philosophica (1503)

M0000437: The brain, and ways of excretion of humours, from Singer: Studies in the history and method of science

M0000438: Example of the general idea of anatomy during the Renaissance

M0000439: Drawing of cave paintings found in the Sierra Morena, Spain

M0000440: Female Paleolithic figurine: Venus of Willendorf

M0000441: Female Paleolithic figurine: Venus of Lespugue

M0000442: horned female figure from Predmost, Moravia.

M0000443: Examples of Palaeolithic human figures

M0000444: Bronze age human figure from Lake Onega region, North Russia

M0000445: Conventionalised Neolithic human forms from Spain

M0000446: Egyptian figurine, side and front view

M0000447: Egyptian figurine

M0000451: Interior of a Drug-store at Klattau, 1733, from Peters: Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy

M0000452: Portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

M0000453: Interior of a Drug-store, 1663, from Peters: Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy

M0000454: Interior of a Drug-store, 1568, from Peters: Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy

M0000455: Interior of a Drug store, 1548, from Peters: Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy

M0000456: Interior of a pharmacy in the Middle Ages, from Peters: Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy

M0000457: Interior of a drug-store, 1450, from Peters: Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy

M0000458: Interior of a pharmacy, 1505, from Peters: Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy

M0000459: Interior of a pharmaceutical laboratory, 1500, from Peters: Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy

M0000460: Interior of a drug-store, 1536, from Peters: Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy

M0000461: Franz Joseph Gall (1758 - 1828), German neuroanatomist

M0000462: Portrait of John Elliotson (1791-1868)

M0000466: Portrait of Jean Lannes (1769-1809)

M0000467: View of the Hudson Bay, Fort Simpson, Canada.

M0000468: The Stockade, Fort Simpson, Hudson Bay, Canada

M0000469: The Stockade, Fort Simpson, Hudson Bay, Canada

M0000471: Roman steelyard and weight

M0000472: copy of the Alfred Jewel, an Anglo-Saxon jewel

M0000473: metal Ptolemaic armillary sphere

M0000474: Henry Wellcome's College of Doctors of Madrid insignia

M0000475: Model of a a mud and thatch African hut, Gold Coast

M0000476: Pewter feeding bottle, 18th century

M0000477: Pewter feeding bottle, 18th century

M0000478: Pewter feeding bottle, 18th century

M0000479: Pewter feeding bottle, 18th century

M0000480: Pewter feeding bottle, 18th century

M0000481: White, china feeding bottle, English.

M0000482: Infants feeding bottle made from cow horn

M0000483: Manuscript illustration of an infant being fed with a cow horn

M0000484: Black terracotta Roman feeding bottle

M0000485: Roman infant feeeding bottle made of clay

M0000486: Roman infant feeeding bottle made of clay

M0000487: Roman infant feeeding bottle made of rough buff ware

M0000488: Dental chair., green plush and mahogany, 19th century

M0000489: Charm necklace of human teeth: incisors and milk teeth, Sudan

M0000490: Early metal denture with strings

M0000491: Teeth decorated with turquoise insets, Ecuador / M0000492: Teeth decorated with gold insets, Ecuador

M0000493: Early toothbrush made from split cane, Nyasaland [Malawi]

M0000494: Set of modern dentures / M0000495: Ivory plate with natural teeth

M0000496: Human skull with trephination marks and a sharks tooth trephine

M0000497: Zulu toothbrush

M0000498: Replica set of Etruscan dentures, gold band with space for six teeth / M0000499: Replica of two Etruscan dentures

M0000500: Replica Egyptian denture / M0000501: Roman lower denture: crown for a lower incisor

M0000502: Human skull fitted with upper teath

M0000503: Maxilla and mandible showing evidence of food packing

M0000504: Radiograph of maxilla and mandible showing food packing

M0000505: Radiograph of maxilla showing food packing

M0000506: Radiograph of mandible showing periodontal disease

M0000507: Illustration of the Scandinavian conception of the relationship between heaven, earth and hell

M0000508: Babylonian conception of the universe

M0000509: Illustration of the Egyptian conception of the universe and sectional view of the earth and heavens

M0000510: Illustration of the Akkadian idea of the form of the universe

M0000511: Illustration of the Brahminical idea of the universe

M0000514: The world with the four Bacabs, from a Mayan manuscript

M0000516: Inca Universe

M0000517: The world with the four Bacabs, from a Mayan manuscript

M0000520: Kalmuck World Picture

M0000522: Lap shaman drum

M0000536: Peruvian bottle made of pottery

M0000537: Peruvian bottle made of pottery

M0000538: Portrait of F. F. Thompson (fl.1845)

M0000539: Portrait of Mrs Thompson nee Hickman

M0000540: Interior of a replica of a Granada pharmacy

M0000541: Interior of a replica of a Granada pharmacy

M0000542: Interior of a replica of a Granada pharmacy

M0000543: Decoration from a vase dedicated to the Sumerian god Ningishzida, by King Gudea of Babylonia

M0000544: Portrait of William Harvey (1578-1657)

M0000545: Portrait of Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829)

M0000547: Portrait of John Abernethy (1764-1831)

M0000548: Portrait of Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826)

M0000549: Portrait of Marie Jean Pierre Flourens (1794-1867)

M0000550: Portrait of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

M0000553: Portrait of Jacques Loeb (1859-1924)

M0000555: Portrait of Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842)

M0000558: Albertus Magnus or Albert Le Grand (c.1200-1280)

M0000560: Autograph letter written and signed by William Harvey (1578-1657) dated 1635

M0000562: Autograph letter written by Edward Jenner, 10 July 1797

M0000563: Old vicarage at Berkeley, birthplace of Edward Jenner

M0000564: Two Japanese tortoiseshell condoms

M0000565: Box containing Japanese tortoise-shell condoms and other items

M0000566: Two Japanese tortoiseshell condoms

M0000567: Two Japanese tortoiseshell condoms

M0000568: Symbols of the Zodiac: Sagittarius, the archer and Capricorn the goat

M0000569: Symbols of the Zodiac Scorpio the scorpion, Virgo the virgin, Libra the balance, Aquarius the water-bearer and Pisces the fish

M0000570: Symbols of the Zodiac, Cancer the crab, Leo the lion, Gemini the twins, Torus (Taurus) the bull and Aries the ram

M0000571: "Des Metaux", woodcut

M0000572: People in boats and in water

M0000573: Two figures at a table

M0000464: George A. Combe (1788-1858), Scottish lawyer and phrenologist

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