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M0004972: Woman receiving a foot bath: Roman bas-relief

Reproduction of a photograph of a bas relief reproduced in in Laignel-Lavastine, M: <i>Histoire generale de la medecine, de la pharmacie, de l'art dentaire et de l'art veterinaire</i>, Paris : Albin Michel éditeur, 1936

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Photographic library: "M" series

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0004909-M0005014

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0004909: Bas relief depicting the adoration of a heroic doctor

M0004910: Greek vase dpicting Telephus with a wounded thigh

M0004911: Votive bas relief depicting a family offering a bull as sacrifice to Aesculapius (Asclepius) and Hygeia

M0004912: Small Greek vase depicting patients waiting for a consultation

M0004913: Greek vase depicting young men and servants in the gymnasium

M0004914: Ganymede playing with a hoop whilst holding a fighting cock

M0004915: An Athenian in the gymnasium, pulling a stake out of the ground which marked the spot where his discus fell

M0004916: Section of a stamnos (pitcher) decorated with an image of men boxing

M0004917: Section of a bowl decorated with an image of a gymnasium scene

M0004918: Section of Greek pottery decorated with an image of a gymnasium scene: an attendant massaging the ankle of an athlete and a youth being scraped with a strigil

M0004919: Illustration of a reconstruction of the Asclepeion at Kos

M0004920: Funerary stele depicting a woman who has died during childbirth, 6th century BC

M0004921: Fainting woman, bronze from the Acropolis

M0004922: Decoration on a Greek cup by Sosias: Achilles binding the arm of Patrocle

M0004923: Section of a Greek vase decorated with a scene of women at the shower baths

M0004924: Section of Greek pottery showing a woman at her toilette

M0004925: Section of Greek pottery showing a woman tying her sandle.

M0004927: Section of an Attic cup showing a young girl preparing for her bath

M0004928: Funeral stele depicting a doctor and his wife

M0004929: Set of six lancets for scarification, Alexandrian period

M0004930: Decoration on an Attic cup: a mother holding out her arms to a baby

M0004931: Section of a hydria decorated with a scene of men at the shower baths

M0004932: Greek mirror with a tanagra relief showing two women at their toilette

M0004933: Ivory sculpture of a childbirth scene, found at Pompeii

M0004934: Decoration on a Greek vase depicting two women washing in front of a satyr

M0004935: Antique bas relief found on the wall of Themistocles: youths playing with a ball

M0004936: Section of an amphora decorated with an image of a male and female figure standing either side of a musician, late 7th century

M0004937: Portrait of Hippocrates (c.460-c.370 BC), 14th century

M0004938: Statue of female figure, right arm severed at the elbow

M0004939: Roman bust of Theophrastus (c.371-c.287 BC)

M0004940: Joseph von Fraunhofer demonstrating his spectroscope

M0004941: Greek woman bathing

M0004942: Young Greek man with bathing accessories

M0004943: Section of a Greek vase showing women bathing

M0004944: Alipte of the baths

M0004945: Women at a Grecian baths, from a Grecian urn in the Berlin Museum

M0004946: Portrait of Guido Patin (1601-1672)

M0004947: Portrait of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)

M0004948: Portrait of Thomas Linacre (1460-1524), English humanist scholar and physician

M0004951: Greek vase depicting a seated man examining a standing man's arm

M0004952: Greek pottery depicting a man waiting to be bled

M0004953: Aesculapius (Asclepius) in the form of a serpent landing at the Isle of Tibue

M0004954: Lid of an Etruscan carved to show an aruspice (haruspex) lying down holding a liver in his left hand

M0004955: High relief of the goddess of childhood, 2nd century BC

M0004956: Apollo, the centaur Chrion and Asclepius: fresco at Pompei

M0004957: Lid of an Etruscan sargophagus, middle 3rd century BC

M0004958: Funery bas relief of three free people who practised medicine

M0004959: Greco-Roman pilaster depicting a child in swaddling clothes with parents and a doctor

M0004960: Mother breastfeeding a child, from sarcophagus of Cornelius Statius

M0004961: Bronze Roman statue of an intersex person

M0004962: Gallo-Roman ex-voto: child in swaddling clothes

M0004963: Death mask of a Parisian child, 4th century

M0004964: Childbirth scene, stone carving

M0004965: Woman preparing a love potion, mosaic

M0004966: Funerary stele with Greek verse

M0004967: Alto relief showing four servants assisting at the toilet of a woman seated in a wickler chair

M0004968: Bas relief of a mother on her death bed surrounded by children

M0004969: Terracotta votive offering: a man's face coverd in sores

M0004970: Old Semite physician: decoration on an Ancient Greek bowl

M0004971: Hypnos and Thanatos carrying the corpse of Mennon: decoration on a Greek vase

M0004973: Death of Meleagne, detail of an antique sarcophagus

M0004974: Carved Gallo-Roman head of a man with blindness

M0004975: Bronze Graeco-Roman statue of an intersex person

M0004976: Gymnast binding up his fist: a detail of a Greek amphora signed Epiktetos

M0004977: Carving of a woman who has died during child birth

M0004978: Engraved mirror showing women at their toilet

M0004979: Wounded soldiers bandaging each other after the battle

M0004980: Ironmonger's shop with surgical instruments

M0004981: Marble bas relief of the physician Aurelius Alexander

M0004982: Section of a stamnos showing women bathing

M0004983: Statue of a woman bandaging her breast

M0004984: Healing blindness, 7th century ivory carving

M0004985: "The Paralytic of Capernium" being let down through the roof, 7th century mosaic

M0004986: Woman kneeling at a saint's feet, mosaic

M0004987: Jesus healing two men with blindness in Jerico, 7th century mosaic

M0004988: Jesus healing a woman with dropsy, mosaic in Monreale Cathedral, Italy

M0004989: Jesus healing ten lepers, mosaic in Monreale Cathedral, Italy

M0004990: Patient consulting doctor, 15th century miniature

M0004991: Bas-relief of two figures with an inscription above

M0004992: Potrait of Alexios Apokaukos (d.1345)

M0004994: Colour plate of fresco Banquet Funebre

M0004995: Roman surgical instruments from Pompeii

M0004996: Roman surgical instruments from Pompeii

M0004997: Roman surgical instruments from Pompeii

M0004998: Roman surgical instruments from Pompeii

M0004999: Roman surgical instruments from Pompeii

M0005000: Roman surgical instruments from Pompeii

M0005001: Roman surgical instruments from Pompeii

M0005002: Roman surgical instruments found at Pompeii (Edne Alinari) P. A.

M0005003: Map of the world

M0005004: Map of Oceania and Pacific Ocean

M0005006: Section of a plan of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum 3rd floor west gallery

M0005007: Section of a plan of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum 3rd floor west gallery

M0005008: "Separation of the sheep and the goats", mosaic from the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Italy, 6th century

M0004972: Woman receiving a foot bath: Roman bas-relief

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