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  • Yama holding the wheel of life. Distemper painting.
  • Yama holding the wheel of life. Distemper painting.
  • Yama holding the wheel of life. Distemper painting.
  • Yama holding the wheel of life. Distemper painting.
  • Photinia x fraseri 'Red Robin'
  • Acacia karoo
  • Coronilla valentina ssp glauca
  • Borneo: a Dyak man demonstrating the blowpipe. Photograph, 19--.
  • Tusk of the narwhal (Monodon monoceros), or horn of the unicorn.
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: ' Salt gall' water
  • Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases
  • Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
  • 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
  • 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 leave 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 [who wish to]: I know no danger in this syrup, so it be taken in moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Gouache.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Gouache.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Ink drawing.
  • Yama holding the Bhavacakra or Wheel of life. Ink drawing.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.