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  • Figures and vignettes: above, a swineherd tending pigs and a herd of cows, below, peasants hauling a carved stone on a pushcart and sportsmen and hussars riding horses. Coloured chalk lithograph by the Becquet brothers after V. J. Adam, 1853.
  • A cowshed in Drury lane about 1850. About eight cows were kept in these premises in order to supply families in the nieghbourhood with milk. They were kept in almost complete darkness and so close together that they were almost touching. Some were even kept in the cellar.
  • Devon drench : a famous and invaluable remedy for the disorders of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs : Especially so for red water, scouring, cold, colic and influenza, milk fever, costiveness, etc. : also as a cleansing drench for cows and ewes after calving and lambing and preventative of milk fever.
  • Devon drench for cattle, horses, etc. : safe and certain : a famous and invaluable remedy for the disorders of horses, cattle, sheep and pigs. Especially so for red water, scouring, cold, colic and influenza, milk fever, costiveness, etc. and as a cleansing drench for cows and ewes after calving and lambing and preventative of milk fever.
  • Tobias cowers back as the angel points to the fire, flames and figures appear, and Sarah watches in the background. Engraving by S.F. Ravenet after R. Earlom after E. Le Sueur.
  • A milk maid with pig-tails, a waistcoat and a bunch of flowers with cows and a man sat in a barn beyond; she holds up a thumb bearing a blown-up condom with the message: 'Without? Without me'; German version of a series of 'Stop SIDA' [Stop AIDS] campaign posters by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz, in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • A physician, enema in hand, quotes Hippocrates on the importance of the stomach in the 'administration' of the body; a green-hued patient cowers behind. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by D.T. de Losques, 1910.
  • A milk maid with pig-tails, a waistcoat and a bunch of flowers with cows and a man sat in a barn beyond; she holds up a thumb bearing a blown-up condom with the message: 'Without? Without me'; one of a series of safe sex posters from a 'Stop AIDS' poster campaign by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph.
  • 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.
  • Galega officinalis L. Fabaceae. Goat's Rue. Distribution: Central and Southern Europe, Asia Minor. Culpeper (1650) writes that it ‘... resists poison, kills worms, resists the falling sickness [epilepsy], resisteth the pestilence.’ Galega officinalis contains guanidine which reduces blood sugar by decreasing insulin resistance and inhibiting hepatic gluconeogenesis.. Metformin and Phenformin are drugs for type II diabetes that rely on this group of chemicals, known as biguanidines. Its name gala, meaning milk plus ega meaning 'to bring on', refers to its alleged property of increasing milk yield, and has been used in France to increase milk yield in cows. officinalis refers to its use in the offices of the monks, and is a common specific name for medicinal plants before 1600 and adopted by Linnaeus (1753). The fresh plant tastes of pea pods. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Edward Jenner. Lithograph by L. Noël after P. R. Vignéron after J. R. Smith, 1800.
  • Pure clean milk : please rinse bottle and return daily.
  • Mr. Lambkin ill trying the recuperative powers of walking and drinking fresh milk. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Jenner, An inquiry into the causes & effects
  • Jenner, An inquiry into the causes & effects
  • Inoculation certificate from Smallpox
  • Royal College of Surgeons certificate - Smallpox
  • Address of the Charity School, Aldergate Ward
  • Extention of vaccination to the poor - Smallpox
  • Royal Infirmary and grounds, Dublin, Ireland. Aquatint by J. Malton, 1794, after himself.
  • Royal Infirmary and grounds, Dublin, Ireland. Aquatint by J. Malton, 1794, after himself.
  • Bovine kidneys
  • Boat approaching the fortress of Ibrim, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Cattle resting in open landscape. Colour reproduction of a painting by T. S. Cooper, 1872.
  • Landscape with fort at Latifpur, Bihar. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1785.
  • Bovine kidneys
  • DELEPINE: Investigations in the Public Healt
  • "Grazing" : moo not disturb : www.moojuce.com / Moo Juce.
  • "Grazing" : moo not disturb : www.moojuce.com / Moo Juce.