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  • Ten flowering plants, all types of trefoil or clover (Trifolium species). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Japanese clover (Lespedeza sp.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate leaf, flower, fruit and seed. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • Dartmoor Prison seen from above: troops firing on American prisoners of war during an insurrection in April 1815. Coloured lithograph after Clover Broughton.
  • Lantern slides; Commercialized, Electric medal. Ring made from horseshoe-nail, 3 hunchback, ring with skull, imitation 4-leaf clover under glass. Coll. Hl. 3827
  • Water clover (Marsilea macropus): leafy stem with details of the sporocarp and embryonic plant. Coloured lithograph by W. Fitch, c. 1863, after himself, after Nanstein.
  • Trifolium rubens L. Leguminosae. [Note the Family Leguminosae is preferred over Family Fabaceae as the former allows all the legumes to be in one Family and not three - one Family being the current consensus among botanists]. Red Feather Clover. Distribution: Europe. The white clover, Trifolium repens, is listed as a treatment for arthritis by Linnaeus (1782). This and Trifolium pratense, Red Clover, are the ones most used for pastures. All the clovers have root nodules which fix nitrogen from the air into the soil so have an important role in ensuring soil fertility. Trifolium rubens has the same nitrogen fixing ability, and is used as an ornamental garden plant where it still acts to improve fertility. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • CloverCream is not merely a brand of cream powder but a life's ideal : make it yours / with the compliments of the sole manufacturer, the Associated Phosphate Manufacturers Ltd.
  • CloverCream is not merely a brand of cream powder but a life's ideal : make it yours / with the compliments of the sole manufacturer, the Associated Phosphate Manufacturers Ltd.
  • Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant (clover) with leaves resembling the horns of a goat, and (below) a goat's head. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.
  • A figure with an orange beak and a vest bearing the words 'Leo' moving three coloured cups around a green playing board bearing a skull, a pink heart and a clover leaf; an advertisement for the Mainz 'Stop AIDS' Festival on 23 August 1989 at the Kulturzentrum [Mainz], organised by the Landeszentrale für Gesundheitserziehung in Rheinland-Pfalz e.V. Colour lithograph by Klaus.
  • Garlic, axial view, MRI
  • Garlic, sagittal view, MRI
  • A plant (Eugenia corymbosa Lam.): branch with flowers and fruit, separate flowers and fruit and section of fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
  • Wood avens (Geum urbanum): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • HAMILTON: DIRECTIONS FOR TAKING AND USING
  • Bulbs of garlic
  • Smokers should use Calvert's Dento-Phenolene : a pleasant and fragrant liquid dentifrice and mouth wash prepared with Calvert's purest phenol (carbolic) / F.C. Calvert & Co.
  • Pomander
  • Pomander
  • Pomander
  • Collage of mixed fruits and vegetables, MRI
  • Anaesthetic Apparatus. Manufacturer's catalogue, p. 325.
  • Operation at University College Hospital 1899
  • Czech anaesthetic exhibition, Prague, May 1948.
  • Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
  • Christ holding a lily. Lithograph by W.C. Maguire.
  • Four flowering plants, all types of dodder (Cuscuta species). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • An artist dreams that he is painting the portrait of the Devil disguised as a virtuoso: episode in a fable by John Ogilby. Etching attributed to F. Barlow, 1673.
  • Melilotus officinalis (Common melilot)