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  • Monument to memory of Vesalius, Zante, Greece
  • Syra (Siros, Syros), Greece. Steel engraving, ca. 1837.
  • Place Andre Vesale, Zante; Greece. Showing municipal library.
  • Zante, Greece, the new quay after earthquake of 1953
  • The Parthenon, Greece. Photograph (by Petros Moraites ?), ca. 1870.
  • Hairstyles through history. 4, Greece, ladies of a Cretan court.
  • Hairstyles through history. 4, Greece, ladies of a Cretan court.
  • Sounion, Greece: Plato and his disciples on the promontory. Engraving, 1817.
  • The Erechtheum, the Acropolis, Greece. Photograph (by Petros Moraites ?), ca. 1870.
  • Thessaloniki (formerly Salonica), Greece: pack ponies with Indian Transport Corps soldiers. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Santorini, Greece: men carrying hogskins full of water to a cistern. Photograph. 18--.
  • The Temple of Athena Nike, the Acropolis, Greece. Photograph by Petros Moraites (?), ca. 1870.
  • Aqueduct, near Pyrgos, Greece or Turkey. Etching by R. Wallis after W.H. Bartlett.
  • The Erechtheum, the Acropolis, Greece: detail showing the Caryatides. Photograph (by Petros Moraites ?), ca. 1870.
  • Arta, Albania (subsequently Greece): the town and surrounding mountains. Colour lithograph after G.D. Beresford, 1855.
  • The Arch of Hadrian, Athens, Greece; the Acropolis in the background. Photograph (by Petros Moraites ?), ca. 1870.
  • Philiates (Filiates), Albania (subsequently Greece): the town and surrounding mountains. Colour lithograph after G.D. Beresford, 1855.
  • Janina, Albania (subsequently Greece): the audience chamber of Ali Pasha. Colour lithograph after G.D. Beresford, 1855.
  • Janina, Albania (subsequently Greece): the seraglio and tomb of Ali Pasha. Colour lithograph after G.D. Beresford, 1855.
  • Greece or Turkey (?): rowing boats and ships in a harbour. Photograph (by Pascal Sébah ?), ca. 1870.
  • Homer; Thomas Hobbes; and warriors from Greece and Troy; representing Hobbes's translation of the works of Homer. Line engraving, 1677.
  • Paul tells the people of Greece about the last judgement; some mock and others believe. Engraving by C. Bloemaert, 1679, after C. Ferri.
  • Janina, Albania (subsequently Greece): the town seen through a gap in the city walls. Colour lithograph by R. Carrick after G.D. Beresford, 1855.
  • The cave of Trophonius in Livadeia, Greece; the cavities in the rock are for votive offerings. Etching by Elizabeth Byrne, 1813, after E.D. Clarke.
  • Parga, Albania (subsequently Greece): the castle, part of the town and the sea seen from the coast road. Colour lithograph after G.D. Beresford, 1855.
  • The Acropolis, Athens, Greece: distant view with the Temple of Olympian Zeus and the Arch of Hadrian in the foreground. Photograph (by Petros Moraites ?), ca. 1870.
  • Hypericum olympicum L. Clusiaceae. Mount Olympus St John's wort. Deciduous perennial herb. Distribution Greece, Asia minor. This is not the plant used for mood disturbances in herbal medicine which is Hypericum perforatum. However, all the 370 species of Hypericum are called 'St John's Wort' so a potential for confusion exists. It shares some of the chemicals thought to be active in Hypericum perforatum. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Collection des chirurgiens grecs avec dessins attribués au Primatrice.