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  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • Acanthus dioscoridis L. Acanthaceae. Distribution: Iran, Iraq, southern Turkey. Herbaceous perennial flowering plant. Named for Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, 1st century Greek physician and herbalist whose book, De Materia Medica, was the main source of herbal medicinal information for the next 1,600 years. He describes some 500 plants and their medicinal properties. His manuscript was copied and annotated over the centuries, and the earliest Greek text in existence is the illustrated Juliana Anicia Codex dated 512CE (Beck, 2005). The first English translation was made around 1650 by John Goodyear and published by Robert T. Gunther in 1934
  • Fuchsia magellanica Lam. Onagraceae. Hardy fuchsia. Semi-hardy shrub. Distribution: Mountainous regions of Chile and Argentina where they are called 'Chilco' by the indigenous people, the Mapuche. The genus was discovered by Charles Plumier in Hispaniola in 1696/7, and named by him for Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), German Professor of Medicine, whose illustrated herbal, De Historia Stirpium (1542) attempted the identification of the plants in the Classical herbals. It also contained the first accounts of maize, Zea mays, and chilli peppers, Capsicum annuum, then recently introduced from Latin America. He was also the first person to publish an account and woodcuts of foxgloves, Digitalis purpurea and D. lutea. The book contains 500 descriptions and woodcuts of medicinal plants, arranged in alphabetical order, and relied heavily on the De Materia Medica (c. AD 70) of Dioscorides. He was a powerful influence on the herbals of Dodoens, and thence to Gerard, L’Escluse and Henry Lyte. A small quarto edition appeared in 1551, and a two volume facsimile of the 1542 edition with commentary and selected translations from the Latin was published by Stanford Press in 1999. The original woodcuts were passed from printer to printer and continued in use for 232 years (Schinz, 1774). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Four hundred humorous illustrations / by George Cruikshank ; with portrait and biographical sketch.
  • Yangsheng graphic: Ming Chinese woodcut
  • Yangsheng graphic: Ming Chinese woodcut
  • Yangsheng graphic: Ming Chinese woodcut
  • C14 Chinese tongue diagnosis chart
  • The Yellow Emperor transmits medical books to Lei Gong
  • Chinese Materia medica, C17: Plant drugs, First page
  • C14 Chinese tongue diagnosis chart
  • C14 Chinese tongue diagnosis chart
  • C14 Chinese tongue diagnosis chart
  • C14 Chinese tongue diagnosis chart
  • C14 Chinese tongue diagnosis chart
  • Ming herbal (painting): Paeonia lactiflora Pall.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Chinese herbaceous peony
  • Ming herbal (painting): Owl
  • Ming herbal (painting): Stephania
  • Ming herbal (painting): Shrike
  • Ming herbal (painting): Chinese jungle mynah
  • Ming herbal (painting): Pigeons
  • Ming herbal (painting): Lindera
  • Ming herbal (painting): Stork
  • Ming herbal (painting): Crow
  • Ming herbal (painting): Quail
  • Ming herbal (painting): Paradise flycatcher
  • Lung channel of hand taiyin, Chinese woodcut, 1817
  • Ming herbal (painting): Omphalia lapidescens Schroet.)
  • Ming herbal (painting): Xichi (a water fowl)