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  • Payne's Cavalry Ointment : heals and toughens the skin : as used by the British Army / J.H. Payne.
  • A girl playing at being a nurse by rubbing "Vick" ointment on the chest of a doll. Colour lithograph.
  • Dr. Roberts' celebrated medicines : that excellent ointment called the Poor Man's Friend ; Pilule Antiscrophule, or alterative pills.
  • Dr. Roberts' celebrated medicines : that excellent ointment called the Poor Man's Friend ; Pilule Antiscrophule, or alterative pills.
  • Dr. Roberts' celebrated medicines : that excellent ointment called the Poor Man's Friend ; Pilule Antiscrophule, or alterative pills.
  • Dr. Roberts' celebrated medicines : that excellent ointment called the Poor Man's Friend ; Pilule Antiscrophule, or alterative pills.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • A box, a bottle and a tube for ointment, pills and tablets. Pen and pencil drawing by E. Hodgkin, ca. 1969.
  • A box, a bottle and a tube for ointment, pills and tablets. Pen and pencil drawing by E. Hodgkin, ca. 1969.
  • Have handy Sherriffs Ointment : the great cure for eczema, erysipelas, herpes, nettlerash, itch, bad legs, old sores, cuts. It is healing, soothing and antiseptic / Alexander Sherriffs.
  • A physician in traditional costume holding an ointment jar is supervising an apprentice who is mixing a concoction in a pot over a fire, Germany 1500. Heliotype.
  • A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares. Etching.
  • Chinese woodcuts: Locations for applying ointments
  • Betnovate : Betnovate-N and Betnovate-C ointments : classic answers to dry infected dermatoses.
  • Betnovate : Betnovate-N and Betnovate-C ointments : classic answers to dry infected dermatoses.
  • Betnovate : Betnovate-N and Betnovate-C ointments : classic answers to dry infected dermatoses.
  • Betnovate : Betnovate-N and Betnovate-C ointments : classic answers to dry infected dermatoses.
  • Scabiosa columbaria L. Dipsacaceae. Small scabious. Distribution: Europe. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘The roots either boiled or beaten into powder and so taken, helps such as are extremely troubled with scabs and itch, are medicinal in the French-pocks [syphilis], hard swellings, inward wounds ...’ The genus name comes from the Latin word scabies, meaning ‘itch’. According to the Doctrine of Signatures, the rough leaves indicated that it would cure eczematous skin. However, the leaves are not really very rough... Not used in herbal medicine at the present time except in Southern Africa where it is used for colic and heartburn, and the roots made into an ointment for curing wounds (van Wyk, 2000). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Prostanthera ovalifolia R.Br. Lamiaceae Alpine anise bush, Oval leaf Mintbush, Purple mintbush. Woody shrub. Distribution: Australia. Minty flavoured leaves used in jams and jellies. Various essential oils are produced from commercially grown P. ovalifolia (cis-dihydroagarofuran, kessane, 1,8-cineole which is also known as eucalyptol, p-cymene,) and P. cuneata also contains eucalyptol. Concentrations of essential oils in the plants vary according to the clonal variety, growing conditions and time of year. Aboriginal peoples used Prostanthera leaves in medicinal ointments and washes, but one species, P. striatiflora, was used to poison waterholes to kill visiting emu (Hegarty, 2001). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Patent Medicines
  • "Pride of London" Paste : London's greatest success!.
  • A foppish man looking at an advertisement for Sloan's Liniment. Colour lithograph, 19--.
  • Die Rezeptur der Salben : 47 bewährte Vorschriften für Salben unter Verwendung der Eucerin-Salbengrundlagen.
  • Die Rezeptur der Salben : 47 bewährte Vorschriften für Salben unter Verwendung der Eucerin-Salbengrundlagen.
  • Die Rezeptur der Salben : 47 bewährte Vorschriften für Salben unter Verwendung der Eucerin-Salbengrundlagen.
  • Die Rezeptur der Salben : 47 bewährte Vorschriften für Salben unter Verwendung der Eucerin-Salbengrundlagen.
  • Saint Mary Magdalene. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after T. Viti.