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  • The first edition of Steward's healing art, corrected and improved by the original hand : to which he has added all his late improvements and new discoveries, both in physick and surgery, from the year 1812 to the year 1826 ... : to which he has added, A concise herbal ... / by William Steward.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • The blossom and fruit of a coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.
  • Wild garlic plant (Allium ursinum) with an associated beetle and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
  • Fever bark (a species of Croton): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower, fruit and seeds and sections of fruit. Coloured line engraving.
  • Bugloss (Echium lycopsis L.): entire flowering plant. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Comfrey (Symphytum tuberosum L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Cinchona plant (Cinchona caribbaea): flowering and fruiting branch. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1801, after J. Ihle.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • White bryony (Bryonia dioica): flowering and fruiting stem with floral segments. Coloured etching after J. Miller, 1791.
  • Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): flowering plant. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.): fruiting and flowering branch with separate numbered sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c.1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • A plant (Salvia virgata Ait.) related to sage: flowering and fruiting stem with separate flowering shoot. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
  • East Indian or Malabar Kino (Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb.): branch with flowers, separate shoot bearing flowers and fruit and sections of flowers. Coloured line engraving.
  • Tobacco (Nicotiana sp.): flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Comfrey (Symphytum officinale L.): flowering stem with separate leaf and rootstock. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • Flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus L.): flowering stem. Coloured engraving by H. Fletcher, c. 1730, after J. van Huysum.
  • Wood avens (Geum urbanum): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • White horehound (Marrubium vulgare): flowering stem, root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1797.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Fig (Ficus carica L.): fruit and leaves. Colour and coloured aquatint by G. Pera, c. 1825, after P. Tofani.
  • Mandrake roots in human form; the mandrake plant; ginseng. Engraving.
  • Foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea): flowering plants. Colour process print, c. 1924.