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  • The scattering of the ashes of John Wycliffe's bones after his body had been exhumed and his bones burnt 41 years after his death. Etching.
  • Japanese funeral customs: watched by two mourners, an attendant prepares to place the urn containing the ashes in the opened grave. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Japanese funeral customs: after the cremation: three women and a child pick bones from the ashes with chopsticks and place them in an urn. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Above, John Wycliffe preaching to a crowd in Oxford; below, the scattering of the ashes of John Wycliffe's bones after his body had been exhumed and his bones burnt 41 years after his death. Etching.
  • A horse disturbs a dying bonfire with its hooves, ignoring its rider's whip and the angry shouts of two women whose laundry is being covered in ashes. Coloured lithograph by A. Strassgschwandtner after himself, ca. 1860.
  • The patriarch Asher milking a goat, men ploughing and sowing the fields, and the goddess Ceres holding a scythe; a cornucopia lies on the ground. Etching by D. Coornhert after M. van Heemskerck.
  • A man (Po Ashing) with a tumour on his left arm. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, 1836.
  • A man (Leang Ashing), in profile, with a tumour on the right side of his face. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, 1837.
  • Asphodeline lutea Rchb. Yellow asphodel, King's spear, Hastula regia. Hardy rhizomatous perennial. Distribution Mediterranean and Caucasus. It is the flower of the dead, as Homer writes that it carpets an area in the gloomy darkness of the underworld (Hades), in Greek mythology where the souls of the dead are found. However this may be a misinterpretation of the Greek where 'Asphodel' has been read instead of 'ash-filled'. In the etymology of flower names, it is suggested that the yellow 'daffodil' is a corruption of French or Flemish 'de asphodel' (both ex Steve Reece, 2007). An Aristotelian epigram, refers to it growing on tombs: 'On my back I hold mallow and many-rooted asphodel ...' The asphodel was sacred to Persephone, goddess of the underworld, who was seized and wed by Hades, god of the underworld, and taken to his kingdom. Her disappearance brings the winter, and her reappearance each year, the spring. The only reliable source of information about its early medical uses is, probably, Dioscorides although the plant in his De Materia Medica may be A. ramosus or A. albus. He gives its properties as diuretic, induces menses, good for coughs and convulsions, an antidote to snake bite, applied as a poultice for sores of all sorts, and in compounds for eye, ear and tooth pains, and to cure alopecia and vitiligo, but induces diarrhoea and vomiting and is an anti-aphrodisiac. Fuchs (1542), as Ruel’s commentaries (1543) note, makes a big mistake as he has Lilium martagon as his concept of A. luteus. Ruel only illustrates its leaves and roots, calling it Hastula regia (Latin for King’s spear) but Matthiolus's Commentaries (1569 edition) has a reasonable woodcut also as Hastula regia (1569). Dodoen's Cruydeboeck (1556) does not mention or illustrate Asphodelus luteus. L'Escluse's French translation Histoire des Plantes (1557) follows the Cruydeboeck. Dodoen's Latin translation Stirpium Historia Pemptades Sex (1583) adds A. luteus with text and woodcut, with no uses. Henry Lyte's (1578) translation illustrates Asphodelus luteus as Asphodeli tertia species and 'Yellow affodyl' (vide etymology of 'daffodil') and also does not describe any uses for it. Gerard's translation The Herbal (1597 and 1633) continues the muddle and does not give any uses for this plant. Parkinson's comments (1640) on the lack of medicinal properties of asphodels, refer to quite different plants coming from wet areas in Lancashire, Scotland and Norway . He calls them pseudoasphodelus major and minor which he writes are called Asphodelus luteus palustris by Dodoens, and not 'King's Spear' which he illustrates with a good woodcut of A. luteus and calls it Asphodelus luteus minor. Once herbals started to be written in northern Europe, the knowledge of the arid loving, Asphodelus luteus of south east Europe was lost. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Vicia faba L. Fabaceae. Broad beans, Fava bean. Distribution: N. Africa, SW Asia. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Fabarum. Of Beans. Of Bean Cods (or Pods as we in Sussex call them) being burned, the ashes are a sovereign remedy for aches in the joints, old bruises, gout and sciaticaes.’ The beans are perfectly edible for the majority, but 1% of Caucasians, predominantly among Greeks, Italians and people from the Eastern Mediterranean regions, have a genetic trait in that they lack the ability to produce the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. As a consequence, eating broad beans or even inhaling the pollen, causes a severe haemolytic anaemia a few days later. This condition is known as favism. The whole plant, including the beans, contains levodopa, a precursor of dopamine, and some patients with Parkinsonism report symptomatic improvement after commencing on a diet that contains these beans regularly. A case of neuroleptic malignant-like syndrome (fever, rigidity, autonomic instability, altered consciousness, elevated creatine phosphokinase levels) consequent on abrupt discontinuation of a diet containing plenty of broad beans, has been described in a patient with Parkinsonism. This is usually seen when patients abruptly discontinue L-dopa therapy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A diseased section of bone. Watercolour, 1822.
  • Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1885.
  • Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1885.
  • Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1885.
  • Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1885.
  • A tiger (Felis tigris). Etching by T. Landseer, ca 1823, after E Spilsbury.
  • An Egyptian philosopher teaching his pupil the art of iconology. Etching.
  • Guy's Hospital 1724-1902 : a tribute to its founder and a record of its work.
  • Guy's Hospital 1724-1902 : a tribute to its founder and a record of its work.
  • Guy's Hospital 1724-1902 : a tribute to its founder and a record of its work.
  • Guy's Hospital gazette. Special number, In commemoration of the bicentenary of the hospital & the centenary of the medical school, 1725-1925 / editor: Leslie George Housden ; sub-editor: Gordon Gould Cameron.
  • Guy's Hospital gazette. Special number, In commemoration of the bicentenary of the hospital & the centenary of the medical school, 1725-1925 / editor: Leslie George Housden ; sub-editor: Gordon Gould Cameron.
  • Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1824, after J.P. Neale.
  • Yarmouth Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England: interior. Line engraving by R. Sands, 1824, after J.P. Neale.
  • Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge: interior towards the west end. Line engraving by J. Le Keux, 1824, after J.P. Neale.
  • Manufacturer's catalogue for dental metals & fillings, 1908.
  • Manufacturer's catalogue for dental metals & fillings, 1908.
  • Manufacturer's catalogue for dental metals & fillings, 1908.
  • Manufacturer's catalogue for dental metals & fillings, 1908.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Horse