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  • Certificate awarded to Christopher Martin by the Royal College of Surgeons in 1891.
  • The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving.
  • The body of Earl Ferrers, displayed upright in his coffin at the Royal College of Surgeons. Engraving by Valois.
  • A meeting of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in the Council Chamber, 1927. Photograph after M. Ayoub, 1927.
  • A meeting of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in the Council Chamber, 1927. Photogravure, after M. Ayoub, 1927.
  • A meeting of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in the Council Chamber, 1927. Photograph after M. Ayoub, 1927.
  • The atmospheric germ theory : a lecture delivered to the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, January 17, 1868 / by John Hughes Bennett.
  • The atmospheric germ theory : a lecture delivered to the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, January 17, 1868 / by John Hughes Bennett.
  • The atmospheric germ theory : a lecture delivered to the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, January 17, 1868 / by John Hughes Bennett.
  • A general list of the members of the Royal College of Surgeons in London : who reside or who have resided in or within seven miles of the City of London.
  • International medical symposium : "Early intervention in human immunodeficiency virus infection" at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 6, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 : Friday, November 30th, 1990.
  • A treatise on the formation, constituents, and extraction of the urinary calculus. Being the essay for which the Jacksonian prize for the year 1833 was awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons in London / by John Green Crosse.
  • A treatise on the formation, constituents, and extraction of the urinary calculus. Being the essay for which the Jacksonian prize for the year 1833 was awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons in London / by John Green Crosse.
  • A general list of the members of the Royal College of Surgeons in England : members who reside and practise, or who have resided and practised, in or within seven miles of the City of London ... members who do not reside or practise, in or within seven miles of the City of London.
  • On rest and pain : a course of lectures on the influence of mechanical and physiological rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical diseases, and the diagnostic value of pain delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862 / by John Hilton ; edited by W.H.A. Jacobson.
  • On a new method of managing fractures : from the address in surgery, delivered at the Twentieth Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Oxford, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 21st and 22nd, 1852 / by James Torry Hester, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.
  • Dactylorhiza aff fuchsii Druce ex Soo Orchidaceae Common Spotted orchid. Distribution: Ireland to Mongolia. Roots look like a hand. Coles (1657) calls them Palma Christi sive [or] Satyrion (to distinguish it from Ricinus communis which he calls Palma Christi sive Ricinus. This plant is probably his Female Satyrion and another Dactylorhiza, probably one of the English Marsh orchids, is his Male Satyrion Royal, with purple flowers. In common with Orchis he writes 'The full and plump roots of the Satyrium or Orchis, whereof the Electuary Diasatyrium is made, are of mighty efficacy to provoke to venery, which they that have bulbous roots [meaning the testicle shaped roots of Orchis] do by Signature.'. Terrestrial orchids continue, to be harvested by the millions annually in the Middle East for the production of Salep, including Salep ice cream, because of their mythological aphrodisiacal property. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Hacquetia epipactis DC Apiaceae. Small herbaceous perennial. No common name except Hacquetia Distribution: Europe. Named for the Austrian physician, Balthasar (or Belsazar) Hacquet (1739/40-1815). He studied medicine in Vienna, was a surgeon in the brutal Seven Years War (1756-1763) – a world-wide war in which up to 1,400,000 people died. Later he was professor at the University of Lemberg (1788-1810). He wrote widely on many scientific disciplines including geology. Parkinson (1640) grouped it with Helleborus and Veratrum, calling it 'Epipactis Matthioli, Matthiolus, his bastard black hellebore' but does not give any uses. It has no medicinal properties. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Lobelia cardinalis L Campanulaceae Cardinal lobelia Distribution: Americas, Colombia to south-eastern Canada. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. It was introduced from Virginia to John Parkinson in England by John Newton (1580-1647) a surgeon of Colyton (aka Colliton), Devon, who travelled to Virginia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • Graphical visualisation of tweets containing #breastcancer.
  • Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.
  • Two men placing the shrouded corpse which they have just disinterred into a sack while Death, as a nightwatchman holding a lantern, grabs one of the grave-robbers from behind. Coloured drawing by T. Rowlandson, 1775.