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  • A disease causing inflammation of the kidneys and pelvis. Colour etching by Oudet for Rayer.
  • Pathway of sound reception : for inflammation and infection in the ear Locorten-Vioform Eardrops.
  • Foot and leg of a boy who had acute inflammation of the upper epiphysis of the tibia
  • A disease causing inflammation of the kidneys and pelvis, numbered for key. Colour etching by Oudet for Rayer.
  • Newmarket embrocation, or White oils : recommended for allaying swellings, inflammation, sprains, bruises, stiff joints, &c., &c. ... / Alfred Parker.
  • Leçons sur la pathologie comparée de l'inflammation faites à l'Institut Pasteur en avril et mai 1891 / par Élie Metchnikoff.
  • Chymoral resolves inflammation relieves pain speeds recovery : AAA throat spray for the quick relief of sore throat pain and discomfort.
  • Chymoral resolves inflammation relieves pain speeds recovery : AAA throat spray for the quick relief of sore throat pain and discomfort.
  • Des inflammations spéciales du tissu muqueux, et en particulier de la diphthérite, ou inflammation pelliculaire. Connue sous le nom de croup, d'angine maligne, d'angine gangréneuse, etc / [Pierre Fidèle Bretonneau].
  • Illustrations of the power of emetic tartar, in the cure of inflammation, and asthma; and in preventing consumption and apoplexy / [William Balfour].
  • Illustrations of the power of emetic tartar, in the cure of inflammation, and asthma; and in preventing consumption and apoplexy / [William Balfour].
  • On bone-setting (so called), and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury, rheumatism, inflammation, &c. &c / by Wharton P. Hood.
  • On bone-setting (so called), and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury, rheumatism, inflammation, &c. &c / by Wharton P. Hood.
  • On bone-setting (so called), and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury, rheumatism, inflammation, &c. &c / by Wharton P. Hood.
  • On bone-setting (so called), and its relation to the treatment of joints crippled by injury, rheumatism, inflammation, &c. &c / by Wharton P. Hood.
  • Foot-rot paste : invaluable for foot-rot in sheep, thrush, inflammation or ulcers in horses feet : directions: to be applied to the affected parts.
  • Fowke & Aston's white oils are most approved in cases of stiffness, swelling, strains, inflammation of the lungs or throat &c. / prepared only by Fowke & Aston, chemists, Stafford.
  • Physiologie pathologique ou recherches cliniques, expérimentales et microsopiques sur l'inflammation, la tuberculisation, les tumeurs, la formation du cal, etc / par H. Herbert, accompagné d'un atlas de vingt-deux planches gravées.
  • Physiologie pathologique ou recherches cliniques, expérimentales et microsopiques sur l'inflammation, la tuberculisation, les tumeurs, la formation du cal, etc / par H. Herbert, accompagné d'un atlas de vingt-deux planches gravées.
  • Physiologie pathologique ou recherches cliniques, expérimentales et microsopiques sur l'inflammation, la tuberculisation, les tumeurs, la formation du cal, etc / par H. Herbert, accompagné d'un atlas de vingt-deux planches gravées.
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / By the late John Hunter. To which is prefixed a short account of the author's life by his brother-in-law, Everard Home.
  • Horse & cattle medicine for colic, gripes, stoppage of bowels, inflammation, spasms, indigestion, hoven, hide bound, felon, overworking, fever, for all cases attended with pain, for mares after foaling, cows after calving ... / H.H. Rushbrook.
  • Pratt's gripe mixture : the mixture has proved itself in thousands of instances, the very best which can be given to a horse suffering either from gripes or inflammation ... / prepared only by T. Pratt, veterinary surgeon, Masham & Ripon.
  • Baker's Purified Driffield Oils : for preventing gangrene, or mortification after lambing or calving and for wounds in horses, cattle, calves, sheep and lambs, such as tumours, hard swellings, sprains, strains, broken knees, sore shoulders, saddle crushes, cracked heels, kicks, cuts, bruises, sore teats, fly galls and sore heads in sheep, and external inflammation of all kinds / Baker & Son (Geo. F. Bevis).
  • Achillea millefolium L. Asteraceae. Yarrow or sneezewort, the latter because ground up it made a snuff to induce sneezing. Evergreen, herbaceous perennial. Distribution: Europe, Asia and North America. Dioscorides calls it Achilles’ woundwort, sideritis, writing that the ground-up foliage closes bleeding wounds, relieves inflammation and stops uterine bleeding. Gerard (1633) says that put up one’s nose it causes a nosebleed and so stops migraines. Named for the Greek warrior, Achilles, who used this plant for healing wounds – having been taught its properties by his teacher, Chiron the centaur. Millefolium because of the thousands of fronds that make up the leaf, and which, when applied to a bleeding wound, facilitate coagulation by platelets. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Acanthus spinosus L. Acanthaceae. Bears breeches. Distribution: Southern Europe to Western Turkey. Herbaceous perennial flowering plant. Named for spiny leaves. Dioscorides recommended the roots applied for inflammation and spasms, and -when drunk- to promote urine, check diarrhoea, and for phthysis, ruptures and convulsions. The leaves are the model for those at the top of Corinthian columns. Tetraglycosides isolated from the plant show cytotoxicity in sea urchin eggs and crown gall tumour on potato disks. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Papaver rhoeas L. Papaveraceae Corn Poppy, Flanders Poppy. Distribution: Temperate Old World. Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959) recommended five or six seed heads in wine to get a good night's sleep the leaves and seeds applied as a poultice to heal inflammation, and the decoction sprinkled on was soporiferous. Culpeper (1650) ' ... Syrup of Red, or Erratick Poppies: by many called Corn-Roses. ... Some are of the opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other - believe them that list [wishes to]: I know no danger in this syrup, so it be taken in moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts