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  • A large gathering inside a galleried ballroom. Tinted photograph after a painting by J.C. Wake, 1878.
  • Milk&more : wake up to a new service from your milkman / Dairy Crest.
  • Milk&more : wake up to a new service from your milkman / Dairy Crest.
  • Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi Lamiaceae. Baikal skullcap. Distribution: China. There are several hundred species of Scutellaria, also known as skull caps, so correct identification is important - in particular from Scutellaria lateriflora an American species known as Blue skullcap. The latter is used as an abortifacient and to expel placenta by the Cherokee and for cleaning the throat by the Iroquois (Austin, 2004). Much vaunted as a treatment for rabies with unlikely statistics (1,400 cases cured by one doctor alone). Also as ‘antispasmodic, nervine, [for] chorea, convulsions, tetanus, tremors, delirium tremens, [and as a] diaphoretic and diuretic'. Toxicity symptoms include mental confusion, stupor, headache, vertigo, photophobia, dilated pupils, difficulty in micturition, bradycardia, tremulousness and languor, followed by wakefulness and restlessness (Milspaugh, 1974). Hutchens (1991) reported that it reduces sexual desire and was used for almost every nervous illness. Scutellaria baicalensis contains baicalin, baicalein and wogonin (European Medicines Agency, September 2010). It is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for treating inflammation, cancer, bacterial and viral infections of the lungs and gut and is one of the '50 Chinese herbs' in the lists of some authors. Scutellaria lateriflora (combined with Verbena officinalis, Passiflora incarnata and the seed of Avena sativa (oats) is licensed for use in Britain as a herbal medicine for temporary relief of mild symptoms of stress such as mild anxiety and to aid sleep, based upon traditional use only. Scutellaria baicalensis is not licensed for use in the UK (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A nurse attempts to wake up one of her patients who has just died. Wood engraving by G. King, 1906.
  • Two young men wake up in bed with headaches on Sunday morning after much drinking the night before. Colour lithograph, 1913.
  • Two young men wake up in bed with headaches on Sunday morning after much drinking the night before. Colour lithograph, 1913.
  • The dissecting room of an anatomist, with a man thought to be dead waking up and sitting up in his coffin. Drawing, 183- (?).
  • Wake up to milk : whole milk, semi-skimmed, skimmed / produced by the National Dairy Council in association with the Health Education Authority and Heartbeat Wales.
  • Wake up to milk : whole milk, semi-skimmed, skimmed / produced by the National Dairy Council in association with the Health Education Authority and Heartbeat Wales.
  • Wake up to milk : whole milk, semi-skimmed, skimmed / produced by the National Dairy Council in association with the Health Education Authority and Heartbeat Wales.
  • Wake up to milk : whole milk, semi-skimmed, skimmed / produced by the National Dairy Council in association with the Health Education Authority and Heartbeat Wales.
  • A teenage girl wakes up in a strange bed after drinking too much the previous night. Colour lithograph for Nationaal Instituut voor Gezondheidsbevordering en Ziektepreventie, ca. 2000.
  • A woman waking up in her bed being attended to by two maidservants. Process print after A.L. Romanet, 1776, after S. Freudeberg after J.H. Eberts.
  • A surgeon bleeding Ragotin's arm - upon waking and attempting to get dressed he discovered his clothes were too tight and he believes his body has swollen in the night. Engraving.
  • A little boy wakes up a sleeping man with noisy banging of a drum; the boy sleeps and the man swats flies away from him with a fan. Colour process print, 1909.
  • A young man is shouting at a man playing the trombone at 2.30 in the morning, for waking him and his family up during the night. Engraving by Robert Graves, 1834, after R.W. Buss.
  • A man with a lamp shade on his head surrounded by a halo of light with the words "réveillez-vous" (Wake up!) across his jumper; representing enlightenment about AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Glen Baxter, 1993.
  • Shake up your wake up... by changing one thing : It's fuel for the brain and gets your metabolism motoring - so raise a toast to the first dish of the day and change one thing to make your morning meal a healthier one.
  • Shake up your wake up... by changing one thing : It's fuel for the brain and gets your metabolism motoring - so raise a toast to the first dish of the day and change one thing to make your morning meal a healthier one.
  • Horlick's Malted Milk : barley, wheat & milk : an efficient corrective of insomnia / [Horlick's Malted Milk Co.].
  • Horlick's Malted Milk : barley, wheat & milk : an efficient corrective of insomnia / [Horlick's Malted Milk Co.].
  • Hooker's Malted Milk (in soluble powder) : delicious & nutritious, highest quality / Thew, Hooker & Gilbey, Ltd.
  • Hooker's Malted Milk (in soluble powder) : delicious & nutritious, highest quality / Thew, Hooker & Gilbey, Ltd.
  • Hooker's Malted Milk (in soluble powder) : delicious & nutritious, highest quality / Thew, Hooker & Gilbey, Ltd.
  • Hooker's Malted Milk (in soluble powder) : delicious & nutritious, highest quality / Thew, Hooker & Gilbey, Ltd.
  • Ovaltine in influenza / A. Wander Ltd.
  • "Doctor, can you help me to sleep better?".
  • "Doctor, can you help me to sleep better?".
  • Psychological sleep : suspension of cerebral activity and muscular resolution with...Dial "Ciba" : specific in nervous insomnia and agitation of the overworked neuropathic patients, etc.