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  • Vade mecum: or, a companion for a chyrurgion: fitted for times of peace or war. Compendiously shewing ... the use of every severall instrument ... and the vertues and qualities of such medicines as are needfull ... with the maner [sic] of compounding them ... As also the perfect cure of green wounds, either incised or contused, ulcers, fistulaes, fractures, and dislocations. To which is added the maner [sic] of making reports before a Judge of Assize, of any one that hath come to an untimely end / [Thomas Brugis].
  • Vade mecum: or, a companion for a chyrurgion: fitted for times of peace or war. Compendiously shewing ... the use of every severall instrument ... and the vertues and qualities of such medicines as are needfull ... with the maner [sic] of compounding them ... As also the perfect cure of green wounds, either incised or contused, ulcers, fistulaes, fractures, and dislocations. To which is added the maner [sic] of making reports before a Judge of Assize, of any one that hath come to an untimely end / [Thomas Brugis].
  • Vade mecum: or, a companion for a chyrurgion: fitted for times of peace or war. Compendiously shewing ... the use of every severall instrument ... and the vertues and qualities of such medicines as are needfull ... with the maner [sic] of compounding them ... As also the perfect cure of green wounds, either incised or contused, ulcers, fistulaes, fractures, and dislocations. To which is added the maner [sic] of making reports before a Judge of Assize, of any one that hath come to an untimely end / [Thomas Brugis].
  • Paul tells the people of Greece about the last judgement; some mock and others believe. Engraving by C. Bloemaert, 1679, after C. Ferri.
  • The archangel Michael, holding a flaming sword and the scales of justice; in heaven the angels kneel before Christ; representing the Day of Judgement. Woodcut.
  • AIDS : is it God's judgement? : A Christian view of faith, hope and love from the Metropolitan Community Church / United Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.
  • AIDS : is it God's judgement? : A Christian view of faith, hope and love from the Metropolitan Community Church / United Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.
  • AIDS : is it God's judgement? : A Christian view of faith, hope and love from the Metropolitan Community Church / United Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.
  • AIDS : is it God's judgement? : A Christian view of faith, hope and love from the Metropolitan Community Church / United Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.
  • Lightning and stars fall on the earth on the day of Judgement; the sun and the moon hang simultaneously in the sky. Woodcut, 16th century.
  • AIDS : is it God's judgement? : A Christian view of faith, hope and love from the Metropolitan Community Church / United Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.
  • AIDS : is it God's judgement? : A Christian view of faith, hope and love from the Metropolitan Community Church / United Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.
  • Moses, with his rod and the table of the ten commandments; with scenes from the Passion and the Last Judgement to come. Mezzotint after S.W. Reynolds.
  • Ernest Grandier, a prisoner of the Zulus, stands naked and tied to a post before the tribe awaiting judgement from the chief he has been brought before. Wood engraving by J.C.D.
  • The prisoner, who is kept in a small slatted wooden box is has his judgement read to him while he stretches his hands through the slats in a pleading gesture. Lithograph after J.P. Moynet.
  • Left, a young man avoiding being burnt at the stake for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition by recanting; left, a young woman avoiding being burned alive by recanting after the judgement. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • The Key to unknowne knowledge. Or, a shop of five windowes ... Consisting of five necessarie treatises: namely, 1. The Judgement of urines. 2. Judiciall rules of physicke. 3. Questions of oyles. 4. Opinions for curing of harquebush-shot. 5. A discourse of humane nature.
  • The Key to unknowne knowledge. Or, a shop of five windowes ... Consisting of five necessarie treatises: namely, 1. The Judgement of urines. 2. Judiciall rules of physicke. 3. Questions of oyles. 4. Opinions for curing of harquebush-shot. 5. A discourse of humane nature.
  • An alphabetical book of physicall secrets, for all those diseases that are most predominant and dangerous (curable by art) in the body of man / Collected for the benefit, most especially of householders in the country ... as likewise for the help of such ladies ... who of charity labour to doe good. Whereunto is annexed a small treatise of the judgement of urines.
  • The surprising monsters : being the wonderful works of the divine judgement on a wicked proud young woman who for her game and despising of others was made herself an example of, for instead of three children at one birth, she had three of the most horrid objects that ever mortal eye beheld; and such that the oldest person living never before saw the like.
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • A warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers: faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others : with above one hundred and twenty sad and dreadful examples of Gods severe judgements upon notorious drunkards ... To which is added His Majesties proclamation against vicious ... persons ... Also some cautions of a learned doctor of physick [i.e. Everard Maynwaring], declaring how intemperate drinking destroyes our bodily health and strength.
  • A warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers: faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others : with above one hundred and twenty sad and dreadful examples of Gods severe judgements upon notorious drunkards ... To which is added His Majesties proclamation against vicious ... persons ... Also some cautions of a learned doctor of physick [i.e. Everard Maynwaring], declaring how intemperate drinking destroyes our bodily health and strength.
  • A warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers: faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others : with above one hundred and twenty sad and dreadful examples of Gods severe judgements upon notorious drunkards ... To which is added His Majesties proclamation against vicious ... persons ... Also some cautions of a learned doctor of physick [i.e. Everard Maynwaring], declaring how intemperate drinking destroyes our bodily health and strength.
  • Acinos alpinus (L.) Moench. Lamiaceae. Rock thyme. Small herbaceous perennial. Distribution: C. and S. Europe. This is Mountain wild Basill, Clinopodium alpinum, of Parkinson (1640), the Teucrium Alpinum and Clinopodium Alpinum hirsutum of Bauhin. Then as now, when it has the synonyms Thymus alpinus, Satureja alpina and Calamintha alpina, its nomenclature has been confused. It is unlikely to be the Acinos or Clinopodium of Theophrastus or Disocorides. Dioscorides gives opposing medicinal uses to the plants he knows by these two names, and Parkinson (1640) makes no judgement as to its uses. Reportedly drunk as a tea in Greece, but evidence for it being used historically for fevers is lacking. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Myrtus communis L. Myrtaceae Myrtle Distribution: Europe. Dioscorides (Beck, 2005) recommends the fruit for treating haemoptysis (‘spitting blood’) and cystitis, and, if boiled, he said it made a fine wine. In various forms it was used as a hair dye, for sore eyes, anal and uterine prolapse, dandruff and shingles, all sorts of inflammations, scorpion bites and even sweaty armpits. Our plant has white berries, but he regarded those with black berries (they become black later in the season) as being more effective. Lyte (1576) adds that the juice of the berries kept the hair black and stopped it falling out, and prevented intoxication. He notes that it only flowered in hot summers in England, but it is reliable in flower now, either due to global warming or selection of suitable clones. According to Lyte, it is named after Merlyne, a fair maiden of Athens in ancient Greece, who judged the athletic games. Slain by a disgruntled competitor, the goddess Minerva brought her back as the myrtle tree in perpetual memory. The myrtle tree is also an ancient Jewish symbol for peace and justice. Myrtle wine is still made in Tuscany and now even in China. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Clouds Hill, the residence of T.E. Lawrence. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • Clouds Hill, the residence of T.E. Lawrence. Photographic postcard, 19--.