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  • Plate 8. Illustration of various eye diseases
  • Eye diseases and surgical instruments. Line engraving by F. Sesone, 1749.
  • The diagnosis and treatment of the diseases of the eye / by Henry W. Williams.
  • Special treatment and cure without operation : Mr. Ison's system of treatment of eye and ear diseases is simply perfection ... / Ison's Eye aand Ear Dispensary Ltd.
  • The ophthalmoscope : its mode of application explained, and its value shown, in the exploration of internal diseases affecting the eye / by Jabez Hogg.
  • A treatise of one hundred and thirteene diseases of the eyes, and eye-liddes. The second time published / with some profitable additions of certaine principles and experiments, by Richard Banister.
  • A treatise of the diseases of the horny-coat of the eye, and the various kinds of cataracts. To which is prefix'd, a method ... of scarifying the eyes / [Benedict Duddell].
  • A treatise of the diseases of the horny-coat of the eye, and the various kinds of cataracts. To which is prefix'd, a method ... of scarifying the eyes / [Benedict Duddell].
  • A treatise of the diseases of the horny-coat of the eye, and the various kinds of cataracts. To which is prefix'd, a method ... of scarifying the eyes / [Benedict Duddell].
  • A clinical memoir on certain diseases of the eye and ear, consequent on inherited syphilis : with an appended chapter of commentaries on the transmission of syphilis from parent to offspring, and its more remote consequences / by Jonathan Hutchinson.
  • Coat's disease, left eye
  • A treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders ... To which are addded, a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by ... J.R. Farre, M.D.
  • A treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders ... To which are addded, a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by ... J.R. Farre, M.D.
  • A section of a face (eyes and nose) with a disease affecting one eye. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton.
  • Head of a man with a disease affecting his eye. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1857.
  • To the left four people are sharing baths, in the centre a man pulls a worm from his leg, and to the right another man is being treated for an eye disease. Reproduction of an engraving.
  • Lectures on the parts concerned in the operations on the eye, and on the structure of the retina ... To which are added, a paper on the vitreous humor; and also a few cases of ophthalmic disease / By William Bowman.
  • A penis with a skin disease on the glans; and two examples of diseased eyes. Chromolithograph, c. 1888.
  • Head of a child with closed eyes and skin disease on the face. Watercolour, 1892.
  • A diseased eye. Drawing.
  • A diseased eye. Watercolour.
  • A soldier eyes a prostitute; the same soldier later suffers from syphilis or another sexually transmitted disease. Colour lithograph by Blas, 1936/1939.
  • A skull with eyes formed of the male and female symbols, representing sterility attributed to sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph, 196- (?).
  • Blister pack of chloroquine antimalarial tablets. Chloroquine is used to prevent and treat the infectious disease malaria. Malaria is caused by parasites (Plasmodium species) which enter the blood when inefcted mosquitoes feed. Side effects of chloroquine include vomitting, nausea and headache. Retinopathy (damage to the retina) is a rare eye condition associated with long term use over many years. Drug resistance against antimalarials is increasing.
  • Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. Ranunculaceae Distribution: Europe. Lindley (1838) and Woodville (1790) knew this as Anemone pulsatilla, the common name being Pasque (Easter) Flower. At the end of the 18th century it was recommended for blindness, cataracts, syphilis, strokes and much more, treatments which, as was clear to physicians at the time, were valueless. Gerard (1633) writes: ‘They serve only for the adorning of gardens and garlands, being floures of great beauty’. It is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, all members of which are poisonous. It was recommended, by mouth, for ‘obstinate case of taenia’ (tapeworms). One hopes it was more toxic to the worm than the patient. Flowers with a central disc and radiating florets were regarded as being good for eye complaints under the Doctrine of Signatures. Porta (1588) writes (translated): ‘Argemone [Papaver argemone], and anemone, have flowers of this shape, from this they cure ulcers and cloudiness of the cornea’. There were occupational diseases even before there were words like pneumoconiosis, and Lindley writes that ‘the powder of the root causes itching of the eyes, colic and vomiting, if in pulverising it the operator do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up.’ Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. Ranunculaceae. Pasque flower. Distribution: Europe. Lindley (1838) and Woodville (1790) knew this as Anemone pulsatilla, the common name being Pasque (Easter) Flower. At the end of the 18th century it was recommended for blindness, cataracts, syphilis, strokes and much more, treatments which, as was clear to physicians at the time, were valueless. Gerard (1633) writes: ‘They serve only for the adorning of gardens and garlands, being floures of great beauty’. It is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, all members of which are poisonous. It was recommended, by mouth, for ‘obstinate case of taenia’ (tapeworms). One hopes it was more toxic to the worm than the patient. Flowers with a central disc and radiating florets were regarded as being good for eye complaints under the Doctrine of Signatures. Porta (1588) writes (translated): ‘Argemone [Papaver argemone], and anemone, have flowers of this shape, from this they cure ulcers and cloudiness of the cornea’. There were occupational diseases even before there were words like pneumoconiosis, and Lindley writes that ‘the powder of the root causes itching of the eyes, colic and vomiting, if in pulverising it the operator do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up.’ Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. Ranunculaceae Pasque flower. Distribution: Europe. Lindley (1838) and Woodville (1790) knew this as Anemone pulsatilla, the common name being Pasque (Easter) Flower. At the end of the 18th century it was recommended for blindness, cataracts, syphilis, strokes and much more, treatments which, as was clear to physicians at the time, were valueless. Gerard (1633) writes: ‘They serve only for the adorning of gardens and garlands, being floures of great beauty’. It is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, all members of which are poisonous. It was recommended, by mouth, for ‘obstinate case of taenia’ (tapeworms). One hopes it was more toxic to the worm than the patient. Flowers with a central disc and radiating florets were regarded as being good for eye complaints under the Doctrine of Signatures. Porta (1588) writes (translated): ‘Argemone [Papaver argemone], and anemone, have flowers of this shape, from this they cure ulcers and cloudiness of the cornea’. There were occupational diseases even before there were words like pneumoconiosis, and Lindley writes that ‘the powder of the root causes itching of the eyes, colic and vomiting, if in pulverising it the operator do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up.’ Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Several examples of diseased eyes, throat (larynx) and face, numbered for key. Coloured lithograph by Batelli after Ottavio Muzzi, c. 1843.
  • A seated woman displaying areas of diseased tissue on her entire body, face, genitals and eye. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1858.
  • Diseased skin on the face and eye of a small boy suffering from herpes zoster (common shingles). Chromolithograph by E. Burgess (?), 1850/1880?.