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  • Six different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
  • Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Tanacetum Parthenium (Feverfew)
  • Ptolemaic pharaoh offering incense to Horus, wall relief
  • Tanacetum parthenium (Feverfew)
  • Carbolic acid... / Hirst, Brooke, & Tomlinson.
  • Inula helenium L. Asteraceae. Elecampine, Elecampane, Enulae campinae Distribution: Britain, S. Europe to the Himalayas. Used medicinally for 2,000 years. Culpeper (1650) writes ‘Elecampane, is ... wholesome for the stomach, resists poison, helps old coughs and shortness of breath, helps ruptures and provokes lust
  • Colombia: a shed on the banks of a lagoon of the River Cienega. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.