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  • An itinerant doctor, by a subterfuge, cures an undergraduate hoaxer of his supposed maladies of lying and bad memory. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1807, after G.M. Woodward.
  • First aid memory chart : designed for A.R.P. first aid workers & learners / by Harold E. Palmer, D. Litt. & W. Rougier Chapman, Surgeon Lieut. Commander R.N.V.R. ; approved by the St. John Ambulance Association.
  • Physiognomie, and chiromancie, metoposcopie, The symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body : fully and accurately explained; with their natural-predictive significations both to men and women ... With The subject of dreams made plain, whereunto is added The art of memory / [Richard Saunders].
  • Physiognomie, and chiromancie, metoposcopie, The symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body : fully and accurately explained; with their natural-predictive significations both to men and women ... With The subject of dreams made plain, whereunto is added The art of memory / [Richard Saunders].
  • Physiognomie, and chiromancie, metoposcopie, The symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body : fully and accurately explained; with their natural-predictive significations both to men and women ... With The subject of dreams made plain, whereunto is added The art of memory / [Richard Saunders].
  • Physiognomie, and chiromancie, metoposcopie, The symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body : fully and accurately explained; with their natural-predictive significations both to men and women ... With The subject of dreams made plain, whereunto is added The art of memory / [Richard Saunders].
  • Physiognomie, and chiromancie, metoposcopie, The symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body : fully and accurately explained; with their natural-predictive significations both to men and women ... With The subject of dreams made plain, whereunto is added The art of memory / [Richard Saunders].
  • Physiognomie, and chiromancie, metoposcopie, The symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body : fully and accurately explained; with their natural-predictive significations both to men and women ... With The subject of dreams made plain, whereunto is added The art of memory / [Richard Saunders].
  • Physiognomie, and chiromancie, metoposcopie, The symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body : fully and accurately explained; with their natural-predictive significations both to men and women ... With The subject of dreams made plain, whereunto is added The art of memory / [Richard Saunders].
  • Physiognomie, and chiromancie, metoposcopie, The symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body : fully and accurately explained; with their natural-predictive significations both to men and women ... With The subject of dreams made plain, whereunto is added The art of memory / [Richard Saunders].
  • Physiognomie, and chiromancie, metoposcopie, The symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body : fully and accurately explained; with their natural-predictive significations both to men and women ... With The subject of dreams made plain, whereunto is added The art of memory / [Richard Saunders].
  • A tree with a red heart pinned to the trunk and a piece of string attached to a needle pinned to the paper; with a border littered with numerous signatures; an advertisement for the Navneprojektet [The Names Project] in Århus, a project in memory of AIDS victims in Denmark. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Salvia coahuilensis Fernald Lamiaceae Coahuila Sage. Perennial shrub. Distribution: Mexico. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Its health giving properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Salvia nemorosa L. Lamiaceae Woodland sage. Balkan clary Distribution: Central Europe, Western Asia. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Linnaeus (1782) also: 'Timor, Languor, Leucorrhoea, Senectus [fear, tiredness, white vaginal discharge, old age]'. Its health giving and immortality conferring properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • AIDS memorial quilt
  • Adonis vernalis L. Ranunculaceae. Pheasant's eye, the golden flowered spring (or vernal) Adonis, is named in memory of Adonis, the Greek god of plants, who disappeared into the earth in the winter and reappeared in the spring. The flowers were said to have sprung from his blood when he was gored to death by a wild boar, but this plant must have been the blood red Adonis aestivalis, the summer Adonis. Distribution: Eurasia to Spain and Sweden. Gerard (1633) recommends it for renal stone and intestinal colic. Lewis & Elvin Lewis (2003) note it is poisonous, containing cardiac glycosides (adonitoxin, cymarin, K-strophanthin) and flavonoids. The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)) bans its use for ingestion 'no dose permitted' but allow it to be prescribed by a herbal practitioner on a one-to-one consultation. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Baked clay memorial head
  • Baked clay memorial head
  • Beit Memorial Fellowships Newscutting Album
  • Margaret Bennet Memorial Hospital, Wuchang
  • Prudhoe memorial convalescent home, Northumberland
  • The Fothergill Memorial Fountain, Darlington
  • Marble votive of memorial relief
  • Memorial card, David Livingstone, 1813-1873
  • Sir Philip Crampton's memorial in Dublin
  • Verso of AIDS memorial quilt poster
  • Sir Philip Crampton's memorial in Dublin
  • Henri Fialon: memorial plaque, 1918. Photograph.
  • The Ross memorial gate in Calcutta
  • The Names Project International Memorial AIDS quilt