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  • "Here's your bonus- I'm glad it's a good one this time" : as usual we are giving a special bonus of 5% on all Oxo purchases (cubes and bottles) during the Autumn bonus period ... September /October 1954 ... / Oxo Limited.
  • Mr. Bernard Cavanagh, the Fasting Man ... will receive company at his rooms, 263, Strand ... : His first long fast commenced at the death of his mother, which took place nearly six years ago, since that period he has not tasted any food whatever ...
  • Mr. Bernard Cavanagh, the Fasting Man ... will receive company at his rooms, 263, Strand ... : His first long fast commenced at the death of his mother, which took place nearly six years ago, since that period he has not tasted any food whatever ...
  • Banded iron formations (BIFs) contain well developed iron-rich thin alternating layers or laminations as seen here. This formation occurs due to the lack of burrowing species in the Precambrian period in which this sedimentary rock was created. The name comes from the various coloured layers.
  • Banded iron formations (BIFs) contain well developed iron-rich thin alternating layers or laminations as seen here. This formation occurs due to the lack of burrowing species in the Precambrian period in which this sedimentary rock was created. The name comes from the various coloured layers.
  • Extraordinary Peruvian relic : just arrived and now exhibiting at the late Mr. Youngs office High St. Rochester : the entire body of a Peruvian woman, perfect as when in life ; supposed to have been buried alive at the remote period of 500 years ago.
  • The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands, from the earliest periods to the sixth century; to which is added, that of the Gothic nations on the western coasts of the Baltic, the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes / By Samuel Rush Meyrick ... and Charles Hamilton Smith, Esq.
  • The book of the feet, a history of boots and shoes. With illustrations of the fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks and Romans, and the prevailing style throughout Europe during the Middle Ages down to the present period; Also hints to last makers and remedies for corns, etc., etc / J. Sparkes Hall.
  • The book of the feet, a history of boots and shoes. With illustrations of the fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks and Romans, and the prevailing style throughout Europe during the Middle Ages down to the present period; Also hints to last makers and remedies for corns, etc., etc / J. Sparkes Hall.
  • For three nights only. Tuesday, thursday and Saturday, August 11th, 13th, & 15th, 1846 : The manager has the gratification of announcing to the nobility and gentry visiting Buxton, and to the inhabitants generally, that he has entered into an arrangement for the above lilited period, with England's native wonder, Field Marshal Tom Thumb! / Theatre, Buxton.
  • Temple offering of antelope and gazelle. These were captured alive by means of a lasso or bolas but only available for the nobility. From a wall relief at the temple at Kom Ombo in Southern Upper Egypt. This temple mostly dates from the Ptolemaic Period although New Kingdom (1570-1070 BCE) remains have been found on the site.
  • Mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut (reigned 1498-1483 BCE, dynasty XVIII), Deir el-Bahri, Thebes. The temple is a partly rock-cut and partly free-standing terraced structure. during the Graeco-Roman Period (332 BCE - CE 395) the temple became a centre for healing and the upper terrace was consecrated to Imhotep. Numerous graffiti are evidence of the large number of invalids who visited it until the second century CE.
  • Mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut (reigned 1498-1483 BCE, dynasty XVIII), Deir el-Bahri, Thebes. The temple is a partly rock-cut and partly free-standing terraced structure. during the Graeco-Roman Period (332 BCE - CE 395) the temple became a centre for healing and the upper terrace was consecrated to Imhotep. Numerous graffiti are evidence of the large number of invalids who visited it until the second century CE.
  • Mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut (reigned 1498-1483 BCE, dynasty XVIII), Deir el-Bahri, Thebes. The temple is a partly rock-cut and partly free-standing terraced structure. during the Graeco-Roman Period (332 BCE - CE 395) the temple became a centre for healing and the upper terrace was consecrated to Imhotep. Numerous graffiti are evidence of the large number of invalids who visited it until the second century CE.
  • Plate 10. The developmental changes in human teeth with age. Several temporary (deciduous) canine teeth (Fig. 1), temporary molars (Fig. 2), the formation of permanent teeth (Figs. 3 and 4), changes that take place during different periods of growth (Fig. 5), cross-section of a jaw of a six-year-old child (A) and an eight to nine-year-old child (B), the appearance of the canine and second permanent molars (C), part of an adult jaw (D), the upper jaw of a foetus (Fig. 6).
  • Abelia x grandiflora R.Br. Caprifoliaceae. Distribution (A. chinensis R.Br. × A. uniflora R.Br.). Mexico, Himalayas to Eastern Asia. Ornamental flowering shrub. The name celebrates the short life of Dr Clarke Abel FRS (1789-1826), one of the first European botanists to collect in China, which he did when attached as physician to the Canton embassy in 1816-17. It has no medicinal uses but is a popular ornamental shrub in the honeysuckle family because it attracts butterflies and has a long flowering period. From June to October it produces a profusion of small, fragrant, pink-flushed, white flowers on long, arching branches. 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.
  • Chinese woodcut: Life-prolonging nine revolutions, 1
  • Chinese woodcut: Life-prolonging nine revolutions, 9
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Shen Nong
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Wang Shuhe
  • Chinese woodcut: Life-prolonging nine revolutions, 6
  • Chinese woodcut: Life-prolonging nine revolutions, 5
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Zhang Zhongjing
  • Chinese woodcut: Life-prolonging nine revolutions, 4
  • Chinese woodcut: Life-prolonging nine revolutions, 2
  • Chinese woodcut: Life-prolonging nine revolutions, 7
  • Chinese woodcut: Life-prolonging nine revolutions, 8
  • Chinese woodcut: Life-prolonging nine revolutions, 3
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Sun Simiao