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  • King Edward VI granting his Royal Charter to Bridewell Hospital. Engraving by G. Vertue, 1750, after a painting by G. Scrots.
  • The two Angel Brothers, acrobats posing in leopard-skin leotards. Photographic postcard, ca. 192-.
  • The two Angel Brothers, acrobats posing in leopard-skin leotards. Photographic postcard, ca. 192-.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • Upper Egypt, temple at Dendara, 1989
  • Upper Egypt, temple at Dendara, 1989
  • Upper Egypt, temple at Dendara, 1989
  • Peony pollen
  • Peony pollen grain
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian being taken to martyrdom (above) and Saint Damian (below). Oil painting by a Spanish painter, ca. 1600 (?).
  • Gentiana asclepiadea L. Gentianaceae. Gentian. Perennial herb. Distribution. Southern Europe and Caucasus. Named after Gentius, King of Illyria (the western Balkan Peninsula) in 181–168 BC. Gentius had a powerful navy of 270 warships (lembi) and like most kings of this era he fought constant wars, fighting with the Romans against Macedonia, and then changing sides only to be defeated and brought captive to Rome in 168 BC
  • Caricatural Mediaeval / Renaissance medical practitioners.
  • Common elder (Sambucus nigra): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
  • Levisticum officinale or Ligusticum sp (Lovage)
  • Laurus nobilis (Bay laurel)
  • The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.
  • The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.
  • Hesperantha coccinea syn. Schizostylis coccinea
  • Tricyrtis 'Togen' with hoverfly
  • Tricyrtis formosana subsp. stolonifera
  • Teucrium fruticans L. Lamiaceae. Tree germander Distribution: Western Mediterranean. Teucrium is named after king Teucer (who lived in the era between 1400 and 1000 BC) the first King of Troy. Dioscorides named a medicinal herb after Teucer, and Linnaeus consolidated this in 1753
  • Rhamnus frangula 'Asplenifolia'
  • The medical practitioner appearing as Christ when he arrives to treat sick people. Engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • Xanthorhiza simplicissima Marshall Ranunculaceae. Yellow root. Distribution: North America, where it was discovered by the plant collector and explorer William Bartram in 1773. Yellow-root. Austin (2004) reports that of the Native Americans, the Cherokee use the crushed plant to make a yellow dye
  • Paeonia suffruticosa 'Bai Yu'
  • Paeonia suffruticosa 'Bai Yu'
  • Paeonia suffruticosa 'Chang Zhi Hong'
  • Eucomis comosa 'Sparkling Burgundy'
  • Aesculapius (Asklepios). Oil painting.
  • Aesculapius (Asklepios). Oil painting.