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  • The "Knight" cheese safes exclude flies and dust, prevent shrinkage in weight by evaporation, and necessarily the crumbling which is caused by this evaporation / Peabody & Parks.
  • A gold miner using a rock drill with a water spray in an attempt to prevent the occupational disease silicosis, caused by dust inhalation. Watercolour by Jane Jackson.
  • E.D.P. : a most efficient bismuth formic-iodide dusting powder : promotes healing, prevents wounds becoming septic.
  • Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. Ranunculaceae Distribution: Europe. Lindley (1838) and Woodville (1790) knew this as Anemone pulsatilla, the common name being Pasque (Easter) Flower. At the end of the 18th century it was recommended for blindness, cataracts, syphilis, strokes and much more, treatments which, as was clear to physicians at the time, were valueless. Gerard (1633) writes: ‘They serve only for the adorning of gardens and garlands, being floures of great beauty’. It is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, all members of which are poisonous. It was recommended, by mouth, for ‘obstinate case of taenia’ (tapeworms). One hopes it was more toxic to the worm than the patient. Flowers with a central disc and radiating florets were regarded as being good for eye complaints under the Doctrine of Signatures. Porta (1588) writes (translated): ‘Argemone [Papaver argemone], and anemone, have flowers of this shape, from this they cure ulcers and cloudiness of the cornea’. There were occupational diseases even before there were words like pneumoconiosis, and Lindley writes that ‘the powder of the root causes itching of the eyes, colic and vomiting, if in pulverising it the operator do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up.’ Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. Ranunculaceae. Pasque flower. Distribution: Europe. Lindley (1838) and Woodville (1790) knew this as Anemone pulsatilla, the common name being Pasque (Easter) Flower. At the end of the 18th century it was recommended for blindness, cataracts, syphilis, strokes and much more, treatments which, as was clear to physicians at the time, were valueless. Gerard (1633) writes: ‘They serve only for the adorning of gardens and garlands, being floures of great beauty’. It is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, all members of which are poisonous. It was recommended, by mouth, for ‘obstinate case of taenia’ (tapeworms). One hopes it was more toxic to the worm than the patient. Flowers with a central disc and radiating florets were regarded as being good for eye complaints under the Doctrine of Signatures. Porta (1588) writes (translated): ‘Argemone [Papaver argemone], and anemone, have flowers of this shape, from this they cure ulcers and cloudiness of the cornea’. There were occupational diseases even before there were words like pneumoconiosis, and Lindley writes that ‘the powder of the root causes itching of the eyes, colic and vomiting, if in pulverising it the operator do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up.’ Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. Ranunculaceae Pasque flower. Distribution: Europe. Lindley (1838) and Woodville (1790) knew this as Anemone pulsatilla, the common name being Pasque (Easter) Flower. At the end of the 18th century it was recommended for blindness, cataracts, syphilis, strokes and much more, treatments which, as was clear to physicians at the time, were valueless. Gerard (1633) writes: ‘They serve only for the adorning of gardens and garlands, being floures of great beauty’. It is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, all members of which are poisonous. It was recommended, by mouth, for ‘obstinate case of taenia’ (tapeworms). One hopes it was more toxic to the worm than the patient. Flowers with a central disc and radiating florets were regarded as being good for eye complaints under the Doctrine of Signatures. Porta (1588) writes (translated): ‘Argemone [Papaver argemone], and anemone, have flowers of this shape, from this they cure ulcers and cloudiness of the cornea’. There were occupational diseases even before there were words like pneumoconiosis, and Lindley writes that ‘the powder of the root causes itching of the eyes, colic and vomiting, if in pulverising it the operator do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up.’ Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A clothed woman places a bucket on the ground and starts to sweep. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Pigments: mills for grinding colours, and a man grinding at a muller, with a ventilator hood above. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.
  • F. N. L. Poynter, A catalogue of incunabula
  • Nepal; air transport in the Khumbu, 1986. As N0022554C with aircraft taking off above the
  • A boy with a supernumerary arm, fighting off six assailants. Wood engraving.
  • Ground plan of Wild Court, Great Wild Street. Wood engraving, 1854.
  • The dance of death: the good and great. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A young man is looking distraught as he kneels at the feet of a woman and holds her hand, some soldiers stand nearby and others climb the steps. Etching.
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Difficult urination, dysentery
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Sweating, emesis and purgation
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Balancing and warming
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Cold, wind and heat
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Delirium etc.
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Pestilence and damp stroke
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Excess wind etc.
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Heatstroke etc.
  • A drunkard wearing a hat, seated, drinking. Watercolour and ink by S. Jenner, 1877.
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Vomiting, coughing etc.
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Fanzao, diarrhoea etc.
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Masses and accumulations etc.
  • The dance of death: Death sees a dustman. Colour lithograph by Edward Hull, 18--.
  • Inside a human bronchus
  • inside a human broncus
  • A cook-house surrounded by men in turbans, at a (military ?) ferry post, in the Suez Canal area (?). Photograph by J. D. Graham, 1914/1918.