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  • Scabies porcina; from Delineations of Cutaneous... 1817
  • Scabies: sores on a hand, palm upwards. Photograph by S. H. Cannon, ca. 1920 (?).
  • Hand and arm infected with scabies. Process print.
  • The scabies mite as a danger to soldiers. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1942.
  • Eruptions on the hands of a patient suffering from scabies. Colour lithograph after Mracek (?), ca. 1905.
  • A mite (cause of asthma or scabies in humans?); advertising Bestioline product for killing mites. Drawing, 192- (?).
  • A bath-house for galley-slaves, in which the first treatment of scabies was said to have been undertaken. Process print after a drawing.
  • Scabiosa columbaria L. Dipsacaceae. Small scabious. Distribution: Europe. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘The roots either boiled or beaten into powder and so taken, helps such as are extremely troubled with scabs and itch, are medicinal in the French-pocks [syphilis], hard swellings, inward wounds ...’ The genus name comes from the Latin word scabies, meaning ‘itch’. According to the Doctrine of Signatures, the rough leaves indicated that it would cure eczematous skin. However, the leaves are not really very rough... Not used in herbal medicine at the present time except in Southern Africa where it is used for colic and heartburn, and the roots made into an ointment for curing wounds (van Wyk, 2000). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ointment for the scab in sheep / prepared by Cary Cocks and Roper.
  • Skin diseases: a child's head with symptoms of favus; bottom left, pemphigus; bottom right, scabs on sores. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • Helleborus x hybridus Hort. Ex Vilmorin Ranunculaceae. A range of hybrids from Helleborus orientalis the Oriental hellebore. Distribution: Europe through to the Caucasus. All very poisonous. Culpeper (1650) says: “The roots (boiled in vinegar) ... be an admirable remedy against inveterate scabs, itch and leprosy, the same helps the toothache, being held in the mouth
  • Helleborus x hybridus Hort. Ex Vilmorin Ranunculaceae. A range of hybrids from Helleborus orientalis the Oriental hellebore. Distribution: Europe through to the Caucasus. All very poisonous. Culpeper (1650) says: “The roots (boiled in vinegar) ... be an admirable remedy against inveterate scabs, itch and leprosy, the same helps the toothache, being held in the mouth: dropped into the ears, helpeth deafness coming of melancholy and noises in the ears
  • Prurisedine.
  • Prurisedine.
  • Prurisedine.
  • Prurisedine.
  • Fly and maggot oil : poison : a most effective preparation.
  • Fowke & Aston's mange wash : for the cure of mange in horses, cattle and dogs ... / prepared only by Fowke & Aston.
  • Fowke & Aston's mange wash : for the cure of mange in horses, cattle and dogs ... / prepared only by Fowke & Aston.
  • Chinese woodcut: Shingles and other itchy rashes
  • The face of a woman looks out with side profiles of three other male and female faces and the back view of another woman's head; a warning that AIDS is not the only sexually transmissible disease by the AIDS/STD Unit, Health Department Victoria. Colour lithograph, July 1992.
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  • A hand with a skin disease; and three patches of skin showing types of skin disease. Coloured stipple etching by J. Pass, c. 1822.
  • Ming herbal: (painting): Sweet wormwood
  • Pharmascript : bad taste pays off!.
  • Pharmascript : bad taste pays off!.
  • Pharmascript : bad taste pays off!.
  • Knautia macedonica Griseb. Dipsacaceae. Distribution: Macedonia. This honours the brothers Knaut, both physicians and botanists: Christof Knaut (also Knauth, 1638–94) and his brother Christian Knaut (1654–1716). The plant was traditionally used as a compress in its native Balkans to relieve dermatitis and itching. This use is a local survival of what was once a widespread application of this plant and its relations, and is an example of the doctrine of signatures in which the therapeutic benefit of a plant is suggested by some aspect of its anatomy
  • Tanacetum cinerariifolium Sch.Blp. Asteraceae Dalmation chrysanthemum, Pyrethrum, Pellitory, Tansy. Distribution: Balkans. Source of the insecticides called pyrethrins. The Physicians of Myddfai in the 13th century used it for toothache. Gerard called it Pyrethrum officinare, Pellitorie of Spain but mentions no insecticidal use, mostly for 'palsies', agues, epilepsy, headaches, to induce salivation, and applied to the skin, to induce sweating. He advised surgeons to use it to make a cream against the Morbum Neopolitanum [syphilis]. However he also describes Tanacetum or Tansy quite separately.. Quincy (1718) gave the same uses
  • Drug advertising ephemera. Box 18.