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  • Medicina flagellata: or, the doctor scarify'd. Laying open the vices of the Faculty, the insignificancy of a great part of their materia medica; with certain rules to discern the true physician from the emperick, and the useful medicine from the noxious and trading physick. With an essay on health, or the power of a regimen. To which is added, a discovery of some remarkable errors in the late writings on the plague / by Dr. Mead, Quincey, Bradley, etc. With some useful and necessary rules to be observed in the time of that contagious distemper.
  • Lobelia cardinalis L Campanulaceae Cardinal lobelia Distribution: Americas, Colombia to south-eastern Canada. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. It was introduced from Virginia to John Parkinson in England by John Newton (1580-1647) a surgeon of Colyton (aka Colliton), Devon, who travelled to Virginia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Hacquetia epipactis DC Apiaceae. Small herbaceous perennial. No common name except Hacquetia Distribution: Europe. Named for the Austrian physician, Balthasar (or Belsazar) Hacquet (1739/40-1815). He studied medicine in Vienna, was a surgeon in the brutal Seven Years War (1756-1763) – a world-wide war in which up to 1,400,000 people died. Later he was professor at the University of Lemberg (1788-1810). He wrote widely on many scientific disciplines including geology. Parkinson (1640) grouped it with Helleborus and Veratrum, calling it 'Epipactis Matthioli, Matthiolus, his bastard black hellebore' but does not give any uses. It has no medicinal properties. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • An introduction to the whole practice of physick. Shewing the natures and faculties of medicines ... Directing the more unskilful in the true method of physick, according to the most succesful practice of several modern physicians in general, and of the late famous Dr. Willis in particular / Being chiefly a translation of ... Wedelius.
  • The examination hall of Medicine and Surgery, Savoy Place, London. Lithograph, [1885].
  • Acheivement of arms, by Heather Childs; c. 1970
  • A naked woman lies stretched out on the doctor's couch; she has swallowed a two sou piece; with two other scenes. Photomechanical reproduction, 1910.
  • Return of wounded Confederate prisoners, under a flag of truce, during the American Civil War. Wood engraving.
  • A lecture to medical staff in London in training for operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.
  • A lecture to medical staff in London in training for operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.
  • Boer War: an army surgeon at work on a battlefield where many lie injured. Halftone, c. 1900.
  • The examination hall of Medicine and Surgery, Savoy Place, London. Wood engraving by [F.W.], [1885].
  • Infirmary, Liverpool, Merseyside: a patient being carried on a stretcher along Brownlow Street. Line engraving by J.B. Allen after T. Allom.
  • Infirmary, Liverpool, Merseyside: a patient being carried on a stretcher along Brownlow Street. Line engraving by J.B. Allen after T. Allom.
  • David MacLagan. Photograph after J. Watson-Gordon.
  • Almanack da Corte do Rio de Janeiro para o anno de 1811.
  • Almanack da Corte do Rio de Janeiro para o anno de 1811.
  • The dissection of the body of Tom Nero. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1751.
  • The dissection of the body of Tom Nero. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1751.
  • A lecture at the Hunterian anatomy school, Great Windmill Street, London. Watercolour by R.B. Schnebbelie, 1839.
  • A lecture at the Hunterian anatomy school, Great Windmill Street, London. Watercolour by R.B. Schnebbelie, 1839.
  • A lecture at the Hunterian anatomy school, Great Windmill Street, London. Watercolour by R.B. Schnebbelie, 1839.
  • Buildings and alumni of St Thomas's Hospital, London. Colour lithograph by Beynon & Company.
  • Ten surgeons discussing the cause of death of George Clarke, who died in riots at an election at Brentford in 1768. Line engraving, 1769.
  • M0007295: A physician and surgeon treating a female patient
  • William Hunter (1718-1783) in his museum in Windmill Street on the day of resurrection, surrounded by skeletons and bodies, some of whom are searching for their missing parts. Engraving, 1782.