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  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple) Also called Jimsonweed
  • Hyoscyamus niger (Henbane)
  • Hyoscyamus niger (Henbane)
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Rust on rose leaf
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Vicia faba (Broadbean). Also called horsebean
  • Helianthus annuus Greene Asteraceae. Sunflower, Marigold of Peru, Floure of the Sun. Distribution: Peru and Mexico. It was much recommended by Gerard (1633) who advises that the buds, covered in flour, boiled, and eaten with 'butter, vinegar and pepper, far surpass artichokes in procuring bodily lust’. Sadly, today only the seeds of sunflower are consumed, as the source of sunflower seed oil used in cooking. It contains mono and polyunsaturated fats, linoleic acid and oleic acid, and is low in saturated fats. As such it was thought to lower cholesterol and so the risk of heart disease, but it may increase the risk of breast and prostatic cancer. However a recent report BMJ2013
  • Astrantia major 'Hadspen Blood'.
  • Paeonia officinalis (Peony)
  • ABC of society / compliments of the Hunt's Remedy Co.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Ciliate desert grass
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Shanjiang (Alpinia japonica), medicinal plant. Chinese, 1655
  • Ming herbal (painting): Stephania
  • Ming herbal (painting): Horse
  • A coal mine in the human brain; representing medical assistance by Tomasz Judym to industrial workers. Colour lithograph by Wongel, 1976.
  • West Indian sugar-growers making gin for the British market at the expense of Scottish grain farmers. Aquatint by Samuel de Wilde, 1808.
  • Borago officinalis (Borage, Star flower)