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Title page of an unknown edition of The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna (Ibn Sina).

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0008270-M0008370

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0008270: Midwifery forceps, 5 instruments

M0008271: Midwifery forceps, 4 instruments.

M0008272: Barne's midwifery forceps, 4 instruments

M0008273: Axis traction midwifery forceps, 3 instruments

M0008274: Midwifery forceps, 3 instruments

M0008275: Single and double crotchets, 18th and 19th century

M0008276: Single and double crotchets, 7 instruments

M0008277: Single and double midwifery crotchets, 9 instruments

M0008278: Single crotchets, 8 instruments

M0008279: Whalebone obstetrical fillets, one with blunt hook, 6 instruments

M0008280: Hinged vectis, 8 instruments.

M0008281: Whalebone bstetrical fillets, 4 instruments.

M0008282: Vectis, crotchets and blunt hooks, 9 instruments

M0008283: Vectis, 19th century, 5 instruments

M0008284: Vectis, 19th century, 5 instruments

M0008285: Craniotomy forceps, 19th century, 6 instruments

M0008286: Craniotomy forceps, mid 19th century, 6 instruments

M0008287: Craniotomy forceps, 6 instruments

M0008288: Craniotomy forceps, 5 instruments

M0008289: Perforators, 18th century, 4 instruments

M0008290: Perforators, 19th century, 7 instruments

M0008291: Perforators, 19th century, 4 instruments

M0008292: WHMM display: "Evaluation of the Trepanning Instrument"

M0008293: Trephine, burs and scoops, 18th century

M0008294: Trepanning brace and burs

M0008295: Trepanation forceps, 14 instruments

M0008296: Trepanation forceps, 8 instruments

M0008297: Hypodermic syringes, 26 items

M0008298: Roman surgical instruments: probes and lancets

M0008299: Roman surgical instruments: probes and lancets

M0008300: Roman surgical instruments: probes and lancets

M0008301: Trepanning instruments: elevators and scoops

M0008302: Skull elevators, 18 instruments

M0008303: Elevators and trepanning instruments

M0008304: Osteotomy lenticulars, 11 instruments

M0008305: Lenticulars, 16 instruments

M0008306: Trochars, with silver cannulas and with side branches

M0008307: Trochars, various types

M0008308: Exploratory trochars

M0008309: Seton needles

M0008310: Lancets and knives for use in cauterising

M0008311: Cautery irons

M0008312: Roman cautery, 50 A.D.

M0008313: Cautery, 19th century

M0008314: Cauteries, 10 instruments

M0008315: Cauteries, 11 instruments

M0008316: Cauteries, 19th century, 7 instruments

M0008317: Cupping horn and 2 lancets, from Bunyoro, Western Uganda

M0008318: Bullet extractors, 14 instruments

M0008319: Bullet extractors, 9 instruments

M0008320: Bullet extractors, mid 16th century.

M0008321: Faentino's three prong lithotomy, 1763

M0008322: Trepanning instruments in case, early 18th century

M0008323: Trepanning instruments in case, 18th century

M0008324: Trepanning instruments in case, 18th century

M0008325: Trepanning instruments in case, 18th century

M0008326: Trepanning instruments in case, 18th century

M0008327: Trepanning instruments in case, c.18th century

M0008328: Trepanning instruments in case, 18th century

M0008329: Trepanning instruments in case, c.18th century

M0008330: Trepanning instruments in case, c.18th century

M0008331: Trepanning instruments in case, c.18th century

M0008332: Trephining instruments in case, 18th century

M0008333: Trepanning instruments in case, c.18th century

M0008334: Trepanning instruments in case, c.18th century

M0008335: Trepanning instruments, c.18th century

M0008336: Trepanning instruments in case, c.18th century

M0008337: Trepanning instruments in case, c.18th century

M0008338: Trepanning instruments in case, c.18th century

M0008339: Trepanning instruments in case, circa 18th century.

M0008340: Trepanning instruments in case, c.18th century

M0008341: Trepanning instruments in case,18th century

M0008342: Trepanning instruments in case, c.18th century

M0008343: Trepanning instruments in case, c.18th century

M0008344: Trepanning instruments, calliper type, early 19th century

M0008345: Trepanning instruments, c.19th century, French

M0008346: Trepanning instruments in case, c.19th century

M0008347: Trepanning instruments in case, c.19th century

M0008348: Rota trephines, in two cases, c.19th century

M0008349: Trepanning instruments in case, c.19th century

M0008350: Surgical instruments, including a trepanning set, in case, c.18th century

M0008351: Various surgical instruments, 17th and 18th century

M0008352: Various surgical instruments, 17th and 18th century

M0008353: Trepanning instruments in case, 18th century

M0008354: Trepanning instruments in case

M0008356: Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Wandsworth factory

M0008357: Mc Kesson & Robbins establishment

M0008358: Reconstruction of a parting laboratory (assay room), c.1550

M0008359: Distilling in a medicinal garden

M0008360: Distilling oven with conical condenser heads

M0008362: Detail from Avicenna's Canon of Medicine / M0008362EB: Title page to Avicenna's Canon of Medicine

M0008363: Letter of thanks from William Ewart Gladstone to Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

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M0008361: Title page of Avicenna's Canon of Medicine

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