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  • A worthy treatise of the eyes; containing the knowledge and cure of one hundreth and thirtene diseases, incident unto them / first gathered & written in French ... and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie [by J. Weyer]; & another of the cancer [by B. Textor] by A. H[unton]. Also ... a work touching the preservation of the sight, set forth by W. Bailey D. of Phisick.
  • A worthy treatise of the eyes; containing the knowledge and cure of one hundreth and thirtene diseases, incident unto them / first gathered & written in French ... and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie [by J. Weyer]; & another of the cancer [by B. Textor] by A. H[unton]. Also ... a work touching the preservation of the sight, set forth by W. Bailey D. of Phisick.
  • A worthy treatise of the eyes; containing the knowledge and cure of one hundreth and thirtene diseases, incident unto them / first gathered & written in French ... and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie [by J. Weyer]; & another of the cancer [by B. Textor] by A. H[unton]. Also ... a work touching the preservation of the sight, set forth by W. Bailey D. of Phisick.
  • A worthy treatise of the eyes; containing the knowledge and cure of one hundreth and thirtene diseases, incident unto them / first gathered & written in French ... and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie [by J. Weyer]; & another of the cancer [by B. Textor] by A. H[unton]. Also ... a work touching the preservation of the sight, set forth by W. Bailey D. of Phisick.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Paris quadrifolia L. Trilliaceae Herb Paris Distribution: Europe and temperate Asia. This dramatic plant was known as Herb Paris or one-berry. Because of the shape of the four leaves, resembling a Burgundian cross or a true love-knot, it was also known as Herb True Love. Prosaically, the name ‘Paris’ stems from the Latin ‘pars’ meaning ‘parts’ referring to the four equal leaves, and not to the French capital or the lover of Helen of Troy. Sixteenth century herbalists such as Fuchs, who calls it Aconitum pardalianches which means leopard’s bane, and Lobel who calls it Solanum tetraphyllum, attributed the poisonous properties of Aconitum to it. The latter, called monkshood and wolfsbane, are well known as poisonous garden plants. Gerard (1633), however, reports that Lobel fed it to animals and it did them no harm, and caused the recovery of a dog poisoned deliberately with arsenic and mercury, while another dog, which did not receive Herb Paris, died. It was recommended thereafter as an antidote to poisons. Coles (1657) wrote 'Herb Paris is exceedingly cold, wherupon it is proved to represse the rage and force of any Poyson, Humour , or Inflammation.' Because of its 'cold' property it was good for swellings of 'the Privy parts' (where presumably hot passions were thought to lie), to heal ulcers, cure poisoning, plague, procure sleep (the berries) and cure colic. Through the concept of the Doctrine of Signatures, the black berry represented an eye, so oil distilled from it was known as Anima oculorum, the soul of the eye, and 'effectual for all the disease of the eye'. Linnaeus (1782) listed it as treating 'Convulsions, Mania, Bubones, Pleurisy, Opththalmia', but modern authors report the berry to be toxic. That one poison acted as an antidote to another was a common, if incorrect, belief in the days of herbal medicine. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Speculum ægrotorum: the sicke-mens glasse: or a plaine introduction wherby one may giue a true and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke bodie, the originall cause of the griefe, how he is tormented and afflicted, what thinges are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which he shall recouer, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors, and how they are ingendered and distributed in our humane bodies; with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of whate complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking, rest and exercise, worketh in euery person: with certain speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight / Composed by John Fage.
  • Table XXXVIII-XXXIX. A medicinal dictionary, 1743-45.
  • A boy washing his face beneath a leaky tin hanging from a tree: saving and use of water in Kenya. Colour lithograph by AMREF, ca. 2000.
  • Inflamed bloodshot eye defects: three figures. Coloured stipple engraving by H. Adlard.
  • Inflamed eye defects: three figures. Coloured stipple engraving by H. Adlard.
  • Inflamed bloodshot eye defects: three figures. Coloured stipple engraving by H. Adlard.
  • Inflamed eye defects: three figures. Coloured stipple engraving by H. Adlard.
  • A sheet of eye examinations and diagrams of the eye with a numbered key. Wood engraving.
  • Die Lehre von den Augenoperationen. Ein Handbuch für angehende Aerzte und Wundärzte ... / [Johann Christian Jüngken].
  • Traité théorique et pratique des maladies des yeux / par L.-A. Desmarres.
  • A sheet showing eye defects, apparatus and an examination. Engraving by Prévost, 1763, after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations, diagrams to show the effect of lenses and diagrams of the eye with a numbered key. Wood engraving.
  • A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations, and diagrams of the eye surgery with a numbered key. Wood engraving.
  • A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations, diagrams to show the effect of lenses and diagrams of the eye with a numbered key. Wood engraving.
  • A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations and anatomical diagrams of the eye with a numbered key. Wood engraving.
  • Chirurgia parua. Guidonis. Cyrurgia Albucasis cũ cauterijs [et] alijs instrumentis. Tractatus de oculis Iesu Hali. Tractatus de oculis Canamusali / [Guy de Chauliac].
  • Chirurgia parua. Guidonis. Cyrurgia Albucasis cũ cauterijs [et] alijs instrumentis. Tractatus de oculis Iesu Hali. Tractatus de oculis Canamusali / [Guy de Chauliac].
  • Chirurgia parua. Guidonis. Cyrurgia Albucasis cũ cauterijs [et] alijs instrumentis. Tractatus de oculis Iesu Hali. Tractatus de oculis Canamusali / [Guy de Chauliac].
  • Chirurgia parua. Guidonis. Cyrurgia Albucasis cũ cauterijs [et] alijs instrumentis. Tractatus de oculis Iesu Hali. Tractatus de oculis Canamusali / [Guy de Chauliac].
  • Chirurgia parua. Guidonis. Cyrurgia Albucasis cũ cauterijs [et] alijs instrumentis. Tractatus de oculis Iesu Hali. Tractatus de oculis Canamusali / [Guy de Chauliac].