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  • 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.
  • [A new booke entyteled the regiment of lyfe: with a syngular Treatise of the pestilece].
  • Ḥeleḳ riʼshon [shelishi] mispar ha-ʻolamot o maʻaśeh ṭoviyah / [Tobias Cohen].
  • Ḥeleḳ riʼshon [shelishi] mispar ha-ʻolamot o maʻaśeh ṭoviyah / [Tobias Cohen].
  • Ḥeleḳ riʼshon [shelishi] mispar ha-ʻolamot o maʻaśeh ṭoviyah / [Tobias Cohen].
  • Ḥeleḳ riʼshon [shelishi] mispar ha-ʻolamot o maʻaśeh ṭoviyah / [Tobias Cohen].
  • Ḥeleḳ riʼshon [shelishi] mispar ha-ʻolamot o maʻaśeh ṭoviyah / [Tobias Cohen].
  • Ḥeleḳ riʼshon [shelishi] mispar ha-ʻolamot o maʻaśeh ṭoviyah / [Tobias Cohen].
  • The elements of medicine / Translated from the Latin, with comments and illustrations, by the author.
  • Disputationes ad morborum historiam et curationem facientes / quas collegit, edidit et recensuit Albertus Hallerus.
  • The regiment of life, wherevnto is added a treatise of the pestilence, with the booke of children / newly corrected and enlarged by Thomas Phaire.
  • Opera omnia, sive ars medicinalis. In qua cuncta quae ad humani corporis valetudinem praesentem tuendam, et absentem reuocandam pertinent, methodo exactissima explicantur / Quae per Vidum Vidium iuniorem diligentissime recognita, ac multis, quae ad eam perficiendam desiderabantur, partibus aucta, diuque expetita, nunc primum in Germaniâ tota simul luci data, tribusque tomis, quorum contenta altera exhibet pagina, comprehensa ; cum indicibus selectiorum accuratissimis.
  • Opera omnia. Nitidius, quam unquam hactenus edita, plurimum emendata, indicibus rerum copiosissimis, ac distinctione characterum exornata / Studio et opera Gerardi Blasii.
  • The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • Opera omnia. Nitidius, quam unquam hactenus edita, plurimum emendata, indicibus rerum copiosissimis, ac distinctione characterum exornata / Studio et opera Gerardi Blasii.
  • The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • Thomae Sydenham med. doct. ac practici Londinensis celeberrimi Opera medica / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • Processus integri in morbis ferè omnibus curandis / A. D..̊ Thoma Sydenham, M.D. conscripti. Quibus accessit graphica symptomatum delineatio.
  • Dr. Sydenham's practice of physick: the signs, symptoms, causes and cures of diseases. With many additions from the second edition of the Latin copy. His discourses of consumptions and gouts, etc. never before published / Faithfully translated into English, with large annotations and practical observations. By William Salmon.
  • The regiment of life, wherevnto is added a treatise of the pestilence, with the booke of children / newly corrected and enlarged by Thomas Phaire.
  • Frederici Dekkers ... Exercitationes practicae circa medendi methodum, auctoritate, ratione, observationibusve plurimis confirmatae ac figuris illustratae ... / Editio altera priori duplò auctior.
  • Friderici Hoffmanni consiliarii regis Borussiae intimi, et archiatri ... Opera omnia physico-medica denuò revisa, correcta et aucta, in sex tomos distributa, quibus continentur doctrinae solidis principiis physico-mechanicis, et anatomicis, atque etiam observationibus clinico-practicis superstructae. Methodo facili ac demonstrativa deductae, & per experientiam LVII. annorum stabilitae : Cum vita auctoris [by J. H. Schultze] et ejus praefatione de differente medicinae et medicorum statu. Atque conditione, & criteriis boni ac periti medici / [Friedrich Hoffmann].
  • Frederici Dekkers ... Exercitationes practicae circa medendi methodum, auctoritate, ratione, observationibusve plurimis confirmatae ac figuris illustratae ... / Editio altera priori duplò auctior.
  • Friderici Hoffmanni consiliarii regis Borussiae intimi, et archiatri ... Opera omnia physico-medica denuò revisa, correcta et aucta, in sex tomos distributa, quibus continentur doctrinae solidis principiis physico-mechanicis, et anatomicis, atque etiam observationibus clinico-practicis superstructae. Methodo facili ac demonstrativa deductae, & per experientiam LVII. annorum stabilitae : Cum vita auctoris [by J. H. Schultze] et ejus praefatione de differente medicinae et medicorum statu. Atque conditione, & criteriis boni ac periti medici / [Friedrich Hoffmann].
  • Medical extracts: on the nature of health, with practical observations: and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems / By a friend to improvements [R.J. Thornton].
  • The works of Aristotle : in four parts. Containing I. His complete master-piece ... II. His complete and experienced midwife ... III. His book of problems ... IV. HIs last legacy / [Aristotle].
  • Medical extracts: on the nature of health, with practical observations: and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems / By a friend to improvements [R.J. Thornton].
  • Historia medicinae, in qua, si non omnia, pleraque saltem, medicorum ratiocinia, dogmata, hypotheses, sectae, &c. ... quae ab exordio medicinae usque ad nostra tempora inclaruerunt, pertractantur / J. Conr. Barchusen.
  • Les œuures d'Ambroise Paré, conseiller, et premier chirurgien du roy : Diuisees en vingt sept liures, auec les figures et portraicts, tant de l'anatomie que des instruments de chirurgie, et de plusieurs monstres.