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  • Iloffa, Nigeria: a Yoruba girl selling dried rats and mice for medicinal use, from a basket in the marketplace. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.
  • A native American grinding root vegetables to make the remedy marketed as Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills, and other native American activities. Colour lithographs, ca. 1900.
  • A native American grinding root vegetables to make the remedy marketed as Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills, and other native American activities. Colour lithographs, ca. 1900.
  • A native American grinding root vegetables to make the remedy marketed as Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills, and other native American activities. Colour lithographs, ca. 1900.
  • A native American grinding root vegetables to make the remedy marketed as Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills, and other native American activities. Colour lithographs, ca. 1900.
  • Peony pollen
  • Peony pollen grain
  • A native band owned by Lukala, [chiefteners] at Lusambo
  • Native American children in a variety of poses suggesting blindness and hiding representing a warning that we isolate ourselves from HIV/AIDS; advertisement about AIDS education and clinical services for native Indian women and children by the Seattle Indian Health Board. Colour lithograph.
  • Heuchera 'Silver Scrolls'
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Zhang Zhongjing
  • A Zulu medicine man dancing in order to detect which one of the women seated around them has bewitched their ruler. Gouache by W.R.S. Stott, 1928.
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Wang Shuhe
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Sun Simiao
  • Veronicastrum virginicum 'Pink Glow'
  • Veronicastrum virginicum 'Pink Glow'
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Portrait of Ge Hong
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Portrait of Bian Que
  • Oleander (Nerium oleander) leaf, LM
  • Darfur, Sudan: two men collecting mud from a lake in a volcanic crater; the mud is sold for cooking and medicinal purposes. Photograph by W.H. Greany, 1939.
  • Sudan: a surgical operation. Photograph, 19--.
  • Gaultheria procumbens Kalm Ericaeae. Wintergreen, teaberry, boxberry, chickerberry. Distribution: North American forests. Named for French physician/botanist Jean Francois Gaultier (1708-1756). Physician to the French King, emigrated to Quebec in 1742. Researched flora of North America, died of typhus (Oakeley, 2012). Source of oil of wintergreen. Ten pounds of oil can be extracted from a ton of leaves. Toxic effects: Stupidity, swelling of the tongue, food craving, epigastric tenderness, vomiting, dyspnoea, hot skin, tachycardia, restlessness (MiIlspaugh, 1974). Active chemical is methyl salicylate. Used topically for musculo-skeletal conditions, it is converted to salicylic acid when absorbed. Excess use has caused a death. Salicylic acid is also used for warts and corns (first described by Dioscorides in 70CE)
  • Wherever gout strikes Zyloric protects.
  • Wherever gout strikes Zyloric protects.
  • Wherever gout strikes Zyloric protects.
  • Wherever gout strikes Zyloric protects.
  • M0006975: Illustration of a Myroxylon Peruiferum leaf
  • M0006975: Illustration of a Myroxylon Peruiferum leaf
  • M0006975: Illustration of a Myroxylon Peruiferum leaf
  • M0006975: Illustration of a Myroxylon Peruiferum leaf