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M0005638: Illustration of a plant from Histoire Admirable des Plantes, 1605

Illustration published in Duret, Charles: <i>Histoire admirable des plantes et herbes esmerueillables et miraculeuses en nature</i>, Paris : N. Bvon, 1605

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0005590-M0005690

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0005590: Baamba women wearing neck rings and lip rings

M0005591: Andamanese man sitting cross-legged, Andaman Islands

M0005592: A Hopi girl and her mother, Arizona

M0005593: Photograph of the gifts brought to the church for the Coster Harvest Festival, London

M0005594: Vaccination during the 1921 smallpox epidemic, Palestine

M0005595: Circle of twisted palm leaves fixed to a palm stem, used to give a farm the protection of Udo, Nigeria

M0005596: A woman from Cairo, Egypt, reputed to possess the evil-eye

M0005597: Woman consulting an oracle in a Chinese temple

M0005598: An 8 year old Sotho, or Basotho, boy drinking asse's milk

M0005599: Ashanti girl with a traditional Akuaba doll, Ghana

M0005600: Bust of a Kayan Lahwi woman wearing neck-rings to lengthen the neck

M0005601: Greek terracotta Boeotian vase or pyxis, 4th or 5th century B.C.

M0005602: Greek terracotta Boeotian vase or pyxis, 4th or 5th century B.C.

M0005603: Robert Liston performing the first surgical operation in England with ether as an anaesthetic, 21 December 1846

M0005603EB: Key of the individuals featured in a painting of Robert Liston performing the first surgical operation in England with ether as an anaesthetic, 21 December 1846

M0005604: Portrait of Robert Liston (1794-1847)

M0005605: Portrait of William Cadge (1822-1903)

M0005606: Portrait of Sir Rickman John Godlee (1849-1925)

M0005607: Portrait of Sir Alfred Garrod (1819-1907)

M0005608: Portrait of Sir William Roberts (1830-1899)

M0005609: Portrait of Sir William Henry Flower (1831-1899)

M0005610: Portrait of Sir Henry Thompson (1820-1904)

M0005611: Portrait of William Squire (1825-1899)

M0005612: Portrait of William Sharpey (1802-1880)

M0005613: Portrait of Sir John Eric Erichsen (1818-1896)

M0005614: Portrait of Thales of Miletus (c.624-c.548 B.C.)

M0005615: Portrait of Pliny the Elder (c.23-79 A.D.)

M0005616: Bust of Plutarch (46-c.119 A.D.)

M0005617: Bust of Epicuris (341-270 B.C.)

M0005618: Bust of Plato (c.425-c.348 B.C.)

M0005619: Bust of Homer

M0005620: Bust of Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

M0005621: Bust of Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C.-65 A.D.)

M0005622: Portrait of Sir John Russell Reynolds (1828-1896)

M0005623: Portrait of Sir George Buckston Browne (1850-1945)

M0005624: Portrait of Voltaire (1694-1778)

M0005625: Portrait of Felix Archimede Pouchet (1800-1872)

M0005626: Portrait of Theodor Schwann (1810-1882)

M0005627: Portrait of Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck (1744-1829)

M0005628: Portrait of Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576)

M0005629: Portrait of Henry Charlton Bastian (1837-1915)

M0005630: Hildegard, receiving the light from Heaven

M0005631: Saint Augustine in his study

M0005632: Model of the Leeuwenhoek microscope in Utrecht University

M0005633: Mosaic portrait of Virgil (70-21 B.C)

M0005634: A barber's dish or bleeding bowl

M0005635: Man with leeches on his leg, manuscript illumination

M0005636: Portrait of Francesco Redi (1626-1697)

M0005637: The microscope animalcules seen in white wine vinegar, Leeuwenhoek

M0005639: Birds generating from rotting wood, woodcut

M0005640: Tree producing a bird, woodcut

M0005641: Trees with leaves in the form of shells from which fly birds, woodcut

M0005642: Trees that generate both fishes and birds, woodcut

M0005643: Trees on the isle of Cimbubon, woodcut

M0005644: The boramets: a creature that grows from melon like seed, 1605

M0005645: "Barnacle Geese": being born then swimming away, 1606

M0005646: "Barnacle Goose": showing the process of development, 1606

M0005647: Saint Blaise blessing a baby with a throat disease

M0005648: Saint Blaise's candles, used for the Blessing of the Throats sacrament

M0005649: A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg

M0005650: Coloured engraving of Saint Clare of Assisi (1194-1253)

M0005651: Saint Amand blessing the healing well of Bascons

M0005652: Reliquary for Saint Francis de Sales

M0005653: Engraving of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (c.1491-1556)

M0005654: Engraving of Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552)

M0005655: Engraving of Saint Placidus (6th century)

M0005656: The tongue of Saint John of Nepomuk surrounded by five episodes of his life

M0005657: Martyrdom of Saint John of Nepomuk

M0005658: Basilica della Santa Casa, Loreto, Italy

M0005659: Saint John Nepomucen with Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch

M0005660: Angels performing a "spiritual bloodletting"

M0005661: The fountain of life

M0005662: Byzantine plaque of the fountain of life

M0005663: Saint Francis Xavier preaching and healing

M0005664: The fountain of life

M0005665: Votive relief: Asclepius his daughter Hygiea and several supplicants / M0005666: Relief of Saint Charles Borromeo praying for the cessation of the plague in Milan, Pierre Puget

M0005667: Portrait of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917)

M0005668: Portrait of Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

M0005669: Experimental cabinet presented to Joseph Lister in 1859 and used by him

M0005672: Portrait of Pope Pius IX (1792-1878)

M0005673: Two photographs of scarified Tiv women, Katsina-Ala, Nigeria

M0005674: A Banara man and a Sara man displaying their teeth

M0005675: Sara woman with greatly distended upper and lower lips

M0005676: Portrait of John Woodall (1570-1643)

M0005677A: Bronze acupuncture figure on a wooden stand

M0005677EB: Woodcut of the human body illustrating acupuncture points

M0005678: Ifugaos warrior standing in front of a structure, Philippines

M0005679: Skulls adorned with horns and a pierced human hand and foot hanging from the branches of a tree

M0005680: Illustration of a circumcision clamp used in Kordofan, Sudan

M0005681: Mongol on Turkic Shaman with drum, Central Asia

M0005682: Subincision operation, Central Australia

M0005682EB: Operation of Subincision, Warrumanga Tribe, Central Australia

M0005683: Representations of animals carved onto various items

M0005684: A Zande man operating a rubbing board oracle, North Central Africa

M0005685: A member of the Ekpe Society in the costume of Ekpe, a spirit who presides at society ceremonies, southern Nigeria

M0005686: Intichiuma ceremony of the Unjiamba and Intichiuma ceremony of the Quatcha, Central Australia

M0005687: Rain shrine, Torres Straits

M0005688: Eleusine plant growing in the centre of a homestead and a pile of eleusine leaves drying, North Central Africa

M0005690: Albanian anthropomorphic grave cross with saw and crescent at ends of cross arms

M0005638: Illustration of a plant from <i>Histoire Admirable des Plantes</i>, 1605

M0005638: Illustration of a plant from Histoire Admirable des Plantes, 1605

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