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  • Smyrnium olusatrum L. Apiaceae. Alexanders, Black Lovage, Horse Parsley. Distribution: W & S Europe, Mediterranean. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘Hipposelinum. Alexanders or Alisanders, provoke urine, expel the afterbirth, provoke urine, help the strangury, expel the wind.’ Culpeper has taken this mainly from Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (circa 100 AD). The genus name is said to derive from Smyrna, a city which was founded by Alexander the Great (although there was one which pre-dated his Smyrna). on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. The species name comes from the Latin olus meaning a pot herb (cooking vegetable) and atrum meaning black, in reference to the seeds. It is described as tasting like a rather bitter, second-class celery. The English name may derive from Alexandria or Alexander the Great. It is rarely used in herbal medicine now. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Elizabeth Alexander, aged 104. Engraving, 1806.
  • A woman (May) leads a man (January) under a tree in which there is somone hiding and some onlookers are pointing at the scene. Engraving by C. Mosley after S. Wale.
  • Medical Research Institute, Accra: medical researchers working on yellow fever. Photograph, 1928.
  • A man driving a a horse-drawn waggon has stopped to ask the way of a man at the side of the road carrying a bundle: he tells him to go back in the opposite direction. Lithograph atributed to E. Purcell after C. Vernet.
  • M0002337: Portrait of Alexander MacAlister (1844-1919)
  • M0002337: Portrait of Alexander MacAlister (1844-1919)
  • M0002337: Portrait of Alexander MacAlister (1844-1919)
  • M0004440: Portrait of Bartholomew Joseph Alexander Dominiceti (fl.1795)
  • M0004440: Portrait of Bartholomew Joseph Alexander Dominiceti (fl.1795)
  • M0004440: Portrait of Bartholomew Joseph Alexander Dominiceti (fl.1795)
  • Two Scotsmen flying on a witch's broomstick from Edinburgh to London; representing Scots usurping the positions of southerners under the government of Lord Bute. Etching by P. Sandby, 1762.
  • Two Scotsmen flying on a witch's broomstick from Edinburgh to London; representing Scots usurping the positions of southerners under the government of Lord Bute. Etching by P. Sandby, 1762.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) and Saint Joseph with the Christ Child and Saint John the Baptist. Engraving by A. Voet after N. Poussin.
  • The apparent revival of a dead man by galvanism. Drawing attributed to G.M. Woodward.
  • Death of Saint Francis Xavier, holding a crucifix, by the sea. Lithograph by L.E.Soulange-Teissier, 1854, after E.J. Lafon.
  • Civil engineering: the pier at Madras, India, built using screw piles (helical piles). Wood engraving, 1863.