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  • Acute pathologies, thoracic coagulation, Chinese lithograph
  • A moon above a queen dressed in blue, and a sun above a king dressed in red; representing two alchemical principles: the dissolving 'lac virginis' (mercury) and the coagulating masculine principle (sulphur). Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • Achillea millefolium L. Asteraceae. Yarrow or sneezewort, the latter because ground up it made a snuff to induce sneezing. Evergreen, herbaceous perennial. Distribution: Europe, Asia and North America. Dioscorides calls it Achilles’ woundwort, sideritis, writing that the ground-up foliage closes bleeding wounds, relieves inflammation and stops uterine bleeding. Gerard (1633) says that put up one’s nose it causes a nosebleed and so stops migraines. Named for the Greek warrior, Achilles, who used this plant for healing wounds – having been taught its properties by his teacher, Chiron the centaur. Millefolium because of the thousands of fronds that make up the leaf, and which, when applied to a bleeding wound, facilitate coagulation by platelets. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Origanum dictamnus L. Lamiaceae Dittany of Crete, Hop marjoram. Distribution: Crete. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘... hastens travail [labour] in women, provokes the Terms [menstruation] . See the Leaves.’ Under 'Leaves' he writes: ‘Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, ... brings away dead children, hastens womens travail, brings away the afterbirth, the very smell of it drives away venomous beasts, so deadly an enemy is it to poison, it’s an admirable remedy against wounds and Gunshot, wounds made with poisoned weapons, draws out splinters, broken bones etc. They say the goats and deers in Creet, being wounded with arrows, eat this herb, which makes the arrows fall out of themselves.' Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (c. 100 AD, trans. Beck, 2005), Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants all have this information, as does Vergil’s Aeneid where he recounts how Venus produced it when her son, Aeneas, had received a deadly wound from an arrow, which fell out on its own when the wound was washed with it (Jashemski, 1999). Dioscorides attributes the same property to ‘Tragium’ or ‘Tragion’ which is probably Hypericum hircinum (a St. John’s Wort): ‘Tragium grows in Crete only ... the leaves and the seed and the tear, being laid on with wine doe draw out arrow heads and splinteres and all things fastened within ... They say also that ye wild goats having been shot, and then feeding upon this herb doe cast out ye arrows.’ . It has hairy leaves, in common with many 'vulnaries', and its alleged ability to heal probably has its origin in the ability of platelets to coagulate more easily on the hairs (in the same way that cotton wool is applied to a shaving cut to hasten clotting). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Coagumin "Lusa" : medicatión regulador funcional de la coagulación sanguinea / Laboratorios Unidos, S.A. ; distribuidores: Henri le Bienvenu, S.A.
  • Cibalgina, analgésico poderoso de acción rápida y segura ... : Hemostático fisiológico Coaguleno / CIBA.
  • Cibalgina, analgésico poderoso de acción rápida y segura ... : Hemostático fisiológico Coaguleno / CIBA.
  • Coagulen-Ciba : for the prevention and treatment of haemorrhage.
  • Plasma Normal Humano Liofilizado ... : para clínicas y sanatorios, especialidades "Sanyn" / Sanyn Cia.
  • Plasma Normal Humano Liofilizado ... : para clínicas y sanatorios, especialidades "Sanyn" / Sanyn Cia.
  • Hirudoid ... : Clauden es de efecto rápido y seguro ... / Luitpold-Werk Munich ; literatura a petición Edmundo Stahl & Cia., S.A.
  • Hirudoid ... : Clauden es de efecto rápido y seguro ... / Luitpold-Werk Munich ; literatura a petición Edmundo Stahl & Cia., S.A.
  • Hochschule und praxis... : geben dem Arzt die Gründlage für die kritische Prüfüng von Heilmitteln.
  • Hochschule und praxis... : geben dem Arzt die Gründlage für die kritische Prüfüng von Heilmitteln.
  • Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata L.) with swollen trunk. Lithograph after R. McCormick, c. 1884.
  • Chinese C18 woodcut: External medicine - syphilitic sores
  • Heart valve prototype made from cattle tissue
  • Medicinal leech Hirudo verbena
  • Moutparts from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena
  • Cocoon from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena
  • Advertisement for Dr Steer's Chemical Opodeldoc, c 1794
  • Araneus diadematus orb web Spider (female)
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscess obstructing the throat
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscesses -- fugu and duikou abscess
  • Formation of the human foetus: five figures, showing the development from embryo at conception, to foetus of four months gestation. Colour engraving by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.
  • Chinese woodcut: Obstruction of the urinary tract
  • Chinese woodcut: Various abscesses
  • Mid C20 Chinese medical illustration in trad. style: Smallpox