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  • Two sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. Say after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Two sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. Say after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Two sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. Say after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Two sections of diseased brain. Colour stipple etching by W. Say after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Several sections of diseased brain, numbered for key. Coloured lithograph by Bénard et Frey after A. Chazal, c. 1825.
  • Three sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. T. Fry after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Three sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. T. Fry after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Three sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. T. Fry after F. R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Five sections of diseased brain. Colour stipple etching by W. T. Fry after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Four sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. T. Fry after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1830.
  • Five sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. T. Fry after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Five sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. T. Fry after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Several examples of diseased brain and spinal column, numbered for key. Coloured lithograph by Batelli after Ottavio Muzzi, c. 1843.
  • Three sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. T. Fry after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Four sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by C. J. Canton after E. (?) R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Four sections of diseased brain. Colour stipple etching by C. J. Canton after E. (?) R. Say for Richard Bright, 1829.
  • Several sections of diseased brain and spine. Coloured stipple etching by W. Say after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1830.
  • Three sections of diseased brain: hernia cerebri. Coloured stipple etching by W. T. Fry after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1830.
  • A diseased brain; and two sections of spine. Lithograph by T. & W. Fairland after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1831.
  • Six sections of diseased brain. Coloured stipple etching by W. T. Fry after F. R. Say & C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1830.
  • Four sections of diseased brain; and a section of spine. Coloured stipple etching by W. Say after C. J. Canton after F. F. Giraud for Richard Bright, 1831.
  • Four sections of diseased brain; and a section of spine. Colour stipple etching by W. Say after C. J. Canton after F. F. Giraud for Richard Bright, 1831.
  • A diseased brain of an eleven year old child; and a section of it in detail. Coloured stipple etching by W. T. Fry after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1830.
  • A diseased brain of an eleven year old child; and a section of it in detail. Colour stipple etching by W. T. Fry after C. J. Canton for Richard Bright, 1830.
  • Galanthus nivalis L. Amaryllidaceae Snowdrop. Hardy, bulbous herb. Distribution: Europe. A chemical, galantamine, is sourced principally from the Caucasian snowdrop, Galanthus woronowii but is present in our ‘English’ snowdrop and related genera. It is a competitive, reversible, acetylcholinesterase inhibitor so increases brain acetylcholine, a chemical of great importance in cerebral function. As such it has been recommended for ameliorating the symptoms of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease, but not for mild cognitive impairment as in US clinical trials there was an increased mortality. Johnson (Gerard, 1633) calls it the bulbous violet, Viola theophrasti
  • Dr. Willis's Practice of physick, being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician: containing these eleven several treatises, viz. I. Of fermentation. II. Of feavers. III. Of urines. IV. Of the accension of the blood. V. Of musculary motion. VI. Of the anatomy of the brain. VII. Of the description and use of the nerves. VIII. Of convulsive diseases. IX. Pharmaceutice rationalis, the first and second part. X. Of the scurvy. XI. Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes. Wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same. Fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader. With forty copper plates / The Pharmaceutice new translated [as also the remainder, by Samuel Pordage], and the whole carefully corrected. And amended.
  • Dr. Willis's Practice of physick, being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician: containing these eleven several treatises, viz. I. Of fermentation. II. Of feavers. III. Of urines. IV. Of the accension of the blood. V. Of musculary motion. VI. Of the anatomy of the brain. VII. Of the description and use of the nerves. VIII. Of convulsive diseases. IX. Pharmaceutice rationalis, the first and second part. X. Of the scurvy. XI. Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes. Wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same. Fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader. With forty copper plates / The Pharmaceutice new translated [as also the remainder, by Samuel Pordage], and the whole carefully corrected. And amended.
  • The compleat surgeon, or, The whole art of surgery explain'd in a most familiar method : containing the principles of that art; and, an exact account of tumours, ulcers, and wounds, simple and complicated, with those by gunshot: As also of venereal diseases, the scurvy, fractures, and luxations: With all sorts of chirurgical operations; the bandages and dressings, which are illustrated in forty copper plates; the method of dissecting the brain, by M. Duncan; several reflections and new machines by M. Arnaud. Likewise, a chirurgical dispensatory; shewing the manner of preparing all such medicines as are most necessary for a surgeon; and particularly the mercurial panacea / Written in French, by M. Le Clerc.
  • Observationes medico-practicae de affectibvs capitis internis et externis : Nunc demum publici juris redditæ. Studio et opera nepotum, Bernhardini Wepferi ... et Georgii Mich. Wepferi / [Johann Jakob Wepfer].
  • Inside the brain / Wellcome Trust.