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  • Hospital gangrene affecting the hip following a puncture of an abscess
  • Leg of a woman in an early stage of moist gangrene
  • Hospital gangrene affecting the hand following a lancet puncture of an abscess
  • A diseased penis showing symptoms of gangrene. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 18--.
  • A diseased penis showing symptoms of gangrene. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1857.
  • A diseased penis showing symptoms of gangrene. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1857.
  • A diseased penis, showing symptoms of gangrene. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 18--.
  • Hospital gangrene affecting the back of the hand following a puncture of an abscess
  • Dissections of diseased lungs affected by gangrene: two figures. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • A diseased penis, showing symptoms of inflammatory or moist gangrene. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1857.
  • A diseased penis, showing symptoms of inflammatory or moist gangrene. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1857.
  • A diseased penis, showing symptoms of inflammatory or moist gangrene. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 18--.
  • A diseased penis, showing symptoms of dry gangrene and sloughing phagedena. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1858.
  • The soft palate, epiglottis and nasal cavities, showing symptoms of gangrene. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • Chart showing deaths by gas gangrene when not treated with anti-gangrenous serum and when treated with it. Drawing after Hyacinthe Vincent, ca. 1934.
  • A diseased kidney (abscess) and diseased uterus (gangrene), numbered for key. Coloured lithograph by Batelli after Ottavio Muzzi, c. 1843.
  • La maniere de traicter les playes faictes tant par hacquebutes, que par fleches: et les accidentz d'icelles, comme fractures et caries des os, gangrene et mortificatoin: avec les pourtraictz des instrumentz necessaires pour leur curation: Et la methode de curer les combustions principalement faictes par la pouldre à canon / [Ambroise Paré].
  • Fowke & Aston's black oils are invaluable amongst horses and cattle, in all cases of bruises occasioned by the saddle, swellings, fistula, ulcer, sore shoulders : also to sheep when bitten by dogs, and ewes when bruised in lambing : or when applied in time to any serious wound, will prevent gangrene / prepared only by Fowke & Aston, chemists, Stafford.
  • Baker's Purified Driffield Oils : for preventing gangrene, or mortification after lambing or calving and for wounds in horses, cattle, calves, sheep and lambs, such as tumours, hard swellings, sprains, strains, broken knees, sore shoulders, saddle crushes, cracked heels, kicks, cuts, bruises, sore teats, fly galls and sore heads in sheep, and external inflammation of all kinds / Baker & Son (Geo. F. Bevis).
  • Gangrenous tonsils
  • Inflamed and gangrenous lung
  • Gangrenous cellulitis of the leg
  • Foot of a negro with gangrenous toes due to frostbite
  • A diseased penis showing symptoms of gangrenous chancre of the pubis. Watercolour with chalk by C. D'Alton, 1866.
  • Prunella vulgaris L. Lamiaceae Self Heal, Carpenter’s Herb, Sicklewort, Consolida minor. Distribution: Europe. Culpeper (1650): ‘See Bugle. So shall I not need to write the same thing twice, the vertues being the same.’ Under Bugle he writes: ‘Bugula. Bugle or middle Comfrey ... excellent for falls or inward bruises, for it dissolves congealed blood, profitable for inward wounds, helps the rickets and other stoppings of the Liver, outwardly it is of wonderful force in curing wounds and ulcers, though festered, as also gangrenes and fistulas, it helps broken bones and dislocations. To conclude, let my countrymen esteem it as a Jewel...’ Bugle is Ajuga reptans which has the same creeping habit, but is in another genus. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A boy with a wounded thigh seated on a bed; a crutch to his right. Coloured stipple etching by J. Grant after J. Bell, ca. 1815.
  • Smith's Lambing Oils / prepared by W. Smith.
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  • Advert, peritonitis treatment, Burroughs Wellcome, 1930
  • Tongue, tonsils, larynx, trachea and lungs from a case of diphtheria