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  • Guy's Hospital reports.
  • Guy's Hospital, medical reports
  • Saint Bartholomew's Hospital reports.
  • Saint Bartholomew's Hospital reports.
  • Guy's Hospital, medical reports
  • Guy's Hospital, medical reports
  • Guy's Hospital, medical reports
  • Medical and surgical report of the Boston City Hospital.
  • A report on barracks and hospitals : with descriptions of military posts / [by John S. Billings].
  • A report on barracks and hospitals : with descriptions of military posts / [by John S. Billings].
  • A report on barracks and hospitals : with descriptions of military posts / [by John S. Billings].
  • A report on barracks and hospitals : with descriptions of military posts / [by John S. Billings].
  • A report on barracks and hospitals : with descriptions of military posts / [by John S. Billings].
  • Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into Greenwich Hospital : with the minutes of evidence and appendix.
  • Statistics of insanity : being a decennial report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1855 inclusive / by W. Charles Hood.
  • Statistics of insanity : being a decennial report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1855 inclusive / by W. Charles Hood.
  • Statistics of insanity : being a decennial report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1855 inclusive / by W. Charles Hood.
  • Statistics of insanity : being a decennial report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1855 inclusive / by W. Charles Hood.
  • Report on the formation and general management of Renkioi Hospital, on the Dardanelles, Turkey / addressed to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for War, by E.A. Parkes.
  • Report on the formation and general management of Renkioi Hospital, on the Dardanelles, Turkey / addressed to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for War, by E.A. Parkes.
  • Report on the formation and general management of Renkioi Hospital, on the Dardanelles, Turkey / addressed to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for War, by E.A. Parkes.
  • The concluding task of the disciples of homoeopathy: an address, delivered to ... the British Homoeopathic Association; together with a report of proceedings, connected with the formation of a London Homoeopathic Hospital, [and address on the transference of the future energies of the members of the British Homoeopathic Association to the maintenance of a London Homoeopathic Hospital] / [Marmaduke B. Sampson].
  • Veratrum nigrum L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and, when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying-in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum - and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Veratrum album L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum -and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Boer War: a soldier reads out good news from the front as others cheer and a barber stops work. Halftone, 1900, after F. Dadd after H. Egersdorfer.
  • Annual report for the year 1902 (fifth year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
  • Guy's Hospital, Southwark: an aerial view. Engraving by W. H. Toms after R. West, c.1738.
  • Guy's Hospital, Southwark: the entrance courtyard, with a man running and a dog barking. Engraving.
  • Case of ectopia vesicae
  • British journal of ophthalmology.