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  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with a wounded mouth and cheek, showing minimal scarring after plastic surgery, in profile. Photograph, 1918.
  • A breast operation to remove a lump, in progress: scarring to the armpit following the operation. Photograph by Félix Méheux, ca. 1900.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a man with a mishapen, scarred nose, before plastic surgery. Reproduction, ca. 1940 (?), of a photograph, ca. 1916.
  • Cosmetic surgery: post-operative stage: a woman's pubes, showing normal hair regrowth and minimal scarring following the operation. Photograph by Félix Méheux, 1903/1905.
  • Cranio-facial injury: the top of a man's head showing scarring, following plastic surgery. Reproduction, ca. 1940 (?), of a photograph, ca. 1916.
  • Cranio-facial injury: the back of a man's shaved head following plastic surgery, showing scarring. Reproduction, ca. 1940 (?), of a photograph, ca. 1916.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with scarring due to a skin graft to the bridge of the nose and face surgery. Photograph, 1916.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a man with scarring to his mouth, chin and neck following plastic surgery. Reproduction, ca. 1940 (?), of a photograph, ca. 1916.
  • A battle-scarred terrier with cropped ears is sitting on the doorstep of a butcher's shop. Steel engraving by H. Beckwith after E. H. Landseer.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a French soldier with scarring due to a skin graft to the bridge of the nose and face surgery: in profile. Photograph, 1916.
  • A baby boy with a scarred and swollen face with a warning in spanish about the risk of HIV mothers transmitting the AIDS disease to babies; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
  • Liver of a DEN (Diethylnitrosamine)-treated rat. DEN is a toxic chemical which quickly induces liver cirrhosis followed by HCC (Hepatocellular carcinoma, a primary liver cancer). Cirrhosis is an end result of fibrosis, the scarring of liver tissue. Fibrosis is caused by the overproduction of collagen, a component of the connective tissue forming the liver. To grade the amount of cirrhosis present in a liver sample, collagen is made visible using the dye sirius red. Under polarized light, collagen is observed as the golden to red color as shown in this image.
  • Cistus incanus ssp creticus Juss. Cistaceae. Rock Rose. Distribution: Crete. Interesting symbiosis with fungus called Tuber melanosporum which increases nutrient absorption for the plant and inhibits growth of other plants in the vicinity. It is a source of the resin ‘labdanum’ (a.k.a. ‘ladanum’) used in perfumes (similar smell to ambergris), as is Cistus ladanifer. It has no medical uses now, and such use was dwindling even in the 18th century. In the 16th century (Henry Lyte’s 1575 translation of Rembert Dodoen’s Cruydeboeck of 1554) its uses were described (directly copied from Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (70AD)) as: ‘Ladanum dronketh with olde wine, stoppeth the laske [periods], and provoketh urine. It is very good against the hardness of the matrix or mother [uterus] layde to in the manner of a pessarie, and it draweth down the secondes or afterbirth, when it is layde upon quicke coles [hot coals], and the fumigation or parfume thereof be received up into the body of women. // The same applied to the head with Myrrhe and oyle of Myrrhe, cureth the scurffe, called Alopecia, and keepeth the heare [hair] from falling of [sic], but whereas it is already fallen away, it will not cause the heare to growe agayne. // ...' and goes on in this vein about its uses for pain in the ears, and removing sores and scars and other things. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Agrimonia eupatoria L. Agrimony, Eupatorium, Maudlein. Perennial herb. The species name comes from king Mithridates Eupator VI of Pontus (132-63 BC) who took regular doses of poison to develop an immunity to them. A 'Mithridate' was a medicine against poisons. Distribution: N. and S. Africa, N. Asia, Europe. '…provokes urine and the terms [periods], dries the brain, opens stoppings, helps the green sickness [iron deficiency anaemia], and profits such as have a cold weak liver outwardly applied it takes away the hardness of the matrix [=uterus] and fills hollow ulcers with flesh' (Culpeper, 1650). Dioscorides (Beck, 2005) recommends mashed leaves in hog's grease for healing scarring ulcers, and the seed in wine for dysentery and serpent bites. Goodyear's 1655 translation of Dioscorides (Gunther 2000) has this as cannabis, which Parkinson (1640) says is in error and summarises the manifold uses from classical authors, from removing splinters to stopping menorrhagia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • embryo wound healing SEM
  • embryo wound healing SEM
  • embryonic wound healing
  • Embryonic wound healing
  • embryo wound healing SEM
  • embryo wound healing SEM
  • Needle and thread stitching up a wound, artwork
  • Pseudo cowpox lesion on a cow's teat, with
  • Recurrent carcinoma of the breast
  • Tuberculoid leprosy
  • Rodent ulcer occurring on the nape of the neck
  • Triamcinolone crystals
  • Knee of a girl admitted with burns, showing lineae transversae on the skin
  • Arm of a girl admitted with burns, showing lineae transversae on the skin
  • Leprosy of the face: head and shoulders portrait of an Indian man with one eye closed. Watercolour (by Jane Jackson ?), 1921/1950 (?), after a (painting ?) by Ernest Muir, ca. 1921.
  • SEM of wounded mouse foetus