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  • The magnetic and botanic family physician, and domestic practice of natural medicine : with illustrations showing various phases of mesmeric treatment, including full and concise instruction in mesmerism, curative magnetism, massage, and medical botany / by D. Younger.
  • Illustrations of madness: exhibiting a singular case of insanity and a no less remarkable difference in medical opinion ... with a description of the tortures experienced [by the patient, James Tilly Matthews, in hallucinations] / By John Haslam.
  • The magnetic and botanic family physician, and domestic practice of natural medicine : with illustrations showing various phases of mesmeric treatment, including full and concise instruction in mesmerism, curative magnetism, massage, and medical botany / by D. Younger.
  • Twenty five medical conditions humourously illustrated. Coloured etching.
  • Illustrations and text explaining how to live positively with AIDS; including getting medical help when you feel unwell to not getting pregnant; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Illustrated price list of electro-medical apparatus / K. Schall.
  • Four medical conditions humourously illustrated. Reproduction of an etching.
  • Seven medical conditions humourously illustrated. Reproduction of an etching.
  • Illustrated price list of electro-medical apparatus / K. Schall.
  • Illustrations of dissections : in a series of original colored plates the size of life, representing the dissection of the human body reduced on a uniform scale, and reproduced in facsimile, expressly for Wood's Library os standard medical authors / by George Viner Ellis and G.H. Ford.
  • Medical apparatus illustrating a notice for an event on oncology in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by the Ethiopian Medical Association, 2009.
  • Eranthis hyemalis Salisb. Ranunculaceae Winter Aconite Distribution: Europe. The reason it was called Winter aconite and linked to Aconitum napellus as being just as poisonous is because plants were classified according to leaf shape in the 16th century. L'Obel's Stirpium adversaria nova (1571) and Plantarum seu stirpium historia (1576) (with a full page illustration on page 384 showing Eranthis and Aconitum together) along with the knowledge that related plants have similar medical properties caused the belief that Eranthis are as poisonous as Aconitum. They are both in Ranunculaceae and while Eranthis (like all Ranunculaceae)is toxic if eaten, it does not contain the same chemicals as Aconitum. Caesalpino (Ekphrasis, 1616) pointed out the error in classifying according to leaf shape and recommended flower shape. It contains pharmacologically interesting chemicals such as khellin, also present in Ammi visnaga. This is a vasodilator but quite toxic, but can be converted into khellin analogues such as sodium cromoglicate – used as a prophylaxis against asthma attacks – and amiodarone which has anti-arrhythmia actions so is used for atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias. It is endangered and protected in the wild (Croatia) because of over-collecting for horticulture. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Eranthis hyemalis Salisb. Ranunculaceae Winter Aconite Distribution: Europe. The reason it was called Winter aconite and linked to Aconitum napellus as being just as poisonous is because plants were classified according to leaf shape in the 16th century. L'Obel's 'Stirpium adversaria nova' published in 1571 and 'Plantarum seu stirpium historia' published 1576 (with a full page illustration on page 384 showing Eranthis and Aconitum together) along with the knowledge that related plants have similar medical properties caused the belief that Eranthis are as poisonous as Aconitum. They are both in Ranunculaceae and while Eranthis (like all Ranunculaceae) is toxic if eaten, it does not contain the same chemicals as Aconitum. Caesalpino (Ekphrasis, 1616) pointed out the error in classifying according to leaf shape and recommended flower shape. It contains pharmacologically interesting chemicals such as khellin, also present in Ammi visnaga. This is a vasodilator but quite toxic, which can be converted into khellin analogues such as sodium cromoglicate – used as a prophylaxis against asthma attacks – and amiodarone which has anti-arrhythmia actions so is used for atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias. It is endangered and protected in the wild (Croatia) because of over-collecting for horticulture. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Exhibit illustrating Lord Lister's researches in bacteriology at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, 1927.
  • Physicians and surgeons of America (illustrated) : a collection of biographical sketches of the regular medical profession / edited and compiled by Irving A. Watson.
  • Physicians and surgeons of America (illustrated) : a collection of biographical sketches of the regular medical profession / edited and compiled by Irving A. Watson.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy / By Richard Bright.
  • The pig: a treatise on the breeds, management, feeding, and medical treatment, of swine; with directions for salting pork, and curing bacon and hams / By William Youatt. Illustrated with engravings drawn from life by William Harvey, esq.
  • The pig: a treatise on the breeds, management, feeding, and medical treatment, of swine; with directions for salting pork, and curing bacon and hams / By William Youatt. Illustrated with engravings drawn from life by William Harvey, esq.
  • Illustrated manual of operative surgery and surgical anatomy / by Cl. Bernard and Ch. Huette ; edited, with notes and additions, and adapted to the use of the American medical student, by W.H. Van Buren and C.E. Isaacs.
  • The private medical friend, or, A warning voice to young men : an essay on the errors of youth and the secret infirmities of the generative organs, resulting from solitary habits, youthful excess, or infection, with practical observations on the premature failiure of sexual power illustrated with many cases in proof of the Author's succesful mode of treatment / by Henry Smith.