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  • A man visiting a health resort is bound and transported on a day bed by two men; bath tub in the background. Etching, May 1869.
  • A large gathering of patients and assistants to Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy, showing use of the special tub at his clinic. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat.
  • A large gathering of patients and assistants to Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy, showing use of the special tub at his clinic. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat.
  • A man visiting a health resort is being woken up by a man who is opening a window; bath tub in the foreground, snow outside. Etching, May 1870.
  • A man visiting a health resort is being woken up by a man who is opening a window; bath tub in the foreground, snow outside. Etching, May 1870.
  • A man on the staff of a health resort is pouring water in a bath tub in which a man covered with a sheet is seated. Etching, May 1870.
  • A man on the staff of a health resort is pouring water in a bath tub in which a man covered with a sheet is seated. Etching, May 1870.
  • A girl sitting on an upturned tub in a barn with a horse and two goats nursing the little goat in her lap. Line engraving by J. H. Engleheart after A. Cooper.
  • A man visiting a health resort is seated in a bath tub and being sprayed with water; in the background, a man is looking at the scene behind a curtain. Etching, May 1870.
  • A man visiting a health resort is seated in a bath tub and being sprayed with water; in the background, a man is looking at the scene behind a curtain. Etching, May 1870.
  • A woman is washing clothes in a tub in a farmyard while a herder drives sheep, cattle and a goat out to pasture. Engraving by L. Halbou after a painting attributed to D. Teniers.
  • Japanese funeral customs: in a wooden temple outbuilding, overseen by a Buddhist monk, three attendants dressed in loincloths uncover a tub-shaped coffin to reveal the body of a dead man. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Three good sources of vitamin E : 1. green vegetables : whole grain cereals 2 : lift here and save 10p on the third : and white plastic tubs : Flora / Van den Bergh Foods Limited.
  • Three good sources of vitamin E : 1. green vegetables : whole grain cereals 2 : lift here and save 10p on the third : and white plastic tubs : Flora / Van den Bergh Foods Limited.
  • Three good sources of vitamin E : 1. green vegetables : whole grain cereals 2 : lift here and save 10p on the third : and white plastic tubs : Flora / Van den Bergh Foods Limited.
  • Cistus incanus ssp creticus Juss. Cistaceae. Rock Rose. Distribution: Crete. Interesting symbiosis with fungus called Tuber melanosporum which increases nutrient absorption for the plant and inhibits growth of other plants in the vicinity. It is a source of the resin ‘labdanum’ (a.k.a. ‘ladanum’) used in perfumes (similar smell to ambergris), as is Cistus ladanifer. It has no medical uses now, and such use was dwindling even in the 18th century. In the 16th century (Henry Lyte’s 1575 translation of Rembert Dodoen’s Cruydeboeck of 1554) its uses were described (directly copied from Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (70AD)) as: ‘Ladanum dronketh with olde wine, stoppeth the laske [periods], and provoketh urine. It is very good against the hardness of the matrix or mother [uterus] layde to in the manner of a pessarie, and it draweth down the secondes or afterbirth, when it is layde upon quicke coles [hot coals], and the fumigation or parfume thereof be received up into the body of women. // The same applied to the head with Myrrhe and oyle of Myrrhe, cureth the scurffe, called Alopecia, and keepeth the heare [hair] from falling of [sic], but whereas it is already fallen away, it will not cause the heare to growe agayne. // ...' and goes on in this vein about its uses for pain in the ears, and removing sores and scars and other things. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A man holding a hypodermic syringe over a tub of diluted bleach; diagrams showing the use of bleach to clean hypodermic needles, with telephone details; advertising hygienic practices when using syringes. by , a support group for those with AIDS. Colour lithograph by Photo Co-op, Glover/Hughes and Big-Active Ltd. for Mainliners, 1990/1995.
  • Anemone blanda Schott & Kotschy, Ranunculaceae. Grecian windflower. Genus name may derive from Greek for wind, blanda being Latin for mild or pleasing. Perennial tuberous herb. Distribution SE Europe, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria. Not described until 1854 so no early herbal records under this name. However all species of Ranunculaceae are poisonous, containing protoanemonin, which causes blistering if sap gets on the skin and indigestion if ingested. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A plant, possibly a Corydalis species: entire flowering plant. Watercolour.
  • Solomon's seal (Polygonatum multiflorum): rootstock. Watercolour.
  • Three flowering plants, including common heather (Calluna vulgaris) and an orchid (Orchidaceae species). Colour nature print by A. Auer, c. 1853.
  • Celandine (Ranunculus ficaria): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • A clump of mushrooms and two Chinese artichokes (Stachys affinis). Watercolour.
  • Two water chestnuts (Eleocharis dulcis) and a root of Shan kui. Watercolour.
  • Fifteen different forms of plant root and two anatomical sections. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
  • HARPAGOPHYTUM PROCUMBENS (DEVILS CLAW)
  • Two examples of different root systems: a denticulate primrose rootstock and a creeping couch grass root. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • Botanical classification; 227 figures of plant anatomical segments with descriptive text. Colour process print (?).
  • Bunium bulbocastanum L.: entire flowering and fruiting plant with separate flower, fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1778.
  • Food processing: pounding yam