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  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore: Arturo Castiglioni with staff of the Institute for the History of Medicine. Photograph by Eduard Althausen, ca. 1928.
  • A brief history of medicine in Massachusetts / by Henry R. Viets.
  • William Henry Welch, Sir D'Arcy Power and Professor (Heinrich?) Sieveking at the 6th International Congress of the History of Medicine. Photograph, 1927.
  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore: the Institute for the History of Medicine: staff (?) seated around a large table. Photograph by Eduard Althausen, ca. 1947.
  • NCUACS : National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists under the guidance of the Royal Society's National Committee for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology : with compliments.
  • On superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery / By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew.
  • The doctor's oath : an essay in the history of medicine / by W.H.S. Jones.
  • The doctor's oath : an essay in the history of medicine / by W.H.S. Jones.
  • High matter, dark language : the philosophy of Robert Fludd (1574-1637) an exhibition at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine catalogue / [prepared by] Christine English, Michael Fend and Robert Jan van Pelt.
  • The history of inoculation and vaccination for the prevention and treatment of disease : lecture memoranda / XVIIth International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913.
  • The history of inoculation and vaccination for the prevention and treatment of disease : lecture memoranda / XVIIth International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913.
  • The history of inoculation and vaccination for the prevention and treatment of disease : lecture memoranda / XVIIth International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913.
  • Hygieia stands before a pyramid engraved with the names of famous figures in the history of medicine. Etching by B. Hübner, 1777.
  • Essays in the history of medicine / by Max Neuburger; translated by various hands and edited, with foreword by Fielding H. Garrison.
  • Aesculapius, representing medicine, receives homage from putti who bring him symbols of botany, natural history, chemistry and anatomy. Engraving by A. Nunzer, 1748.
  • History of Chinese medicine : being a chronicle of medical happenings in China from ancient times to the present period / by K. Chimin Wong and Wu Lien-Teh.
  • A medicinal dictionary; including physic, surgery, anatomy, chymistry, and botany, in all their branches relative to medicine. Together with a history of drugs ... and an introductory preface, tracing the progress of physic, and explaining the theories which have ... prevail'd in all ages / By R. James.
  • A medicinal dictionary; including physic, surgery, anatomy, chymistry, and botany, in all their branches relative to medicine. Together with a history of drugs ... and an introductory preface, tracing the progress of physic, and explaining the theories which have ... prevail'd in all ages / By R. James.
  • Valeriana officinalis L. Valerianaceae Valerianus, Phu, Nardus sylvestris, Setwal. Distribution: Europe. Popular herbalism attributes sedation to Valerian, but this is not mentioned by Coles (1657) or Gerard (1633) or Lobel (1576) or Lyte (1578) or Dioscorides (ex Gunther, 1959) or Fuchs (1553), where he quotes Pliny, Dioscorides and Galen, or Parkinson (1640), or Pomet (1712). The English translation of Tournefort (1719-1730) covers a whole page of the uses of all the different valerians, but never mentions sedation or treating anxiety. Quincy (1718) does not mention it. Because it was used in epilepsy, for which Woodville (1792) says it was useless, Haller, in his Historia stirpium indegenarum Helvetae inchoatae (1768) advocates it for those with irritability of the nervous system, as does Thomson's London Dispensatory (1811) although he lists it as an 'antispasmodic and stimulant' and for inducing menstruation. Lindley (1838) notes (as many did) that the roots smell terrible and that this makes cats excited, and in man, in large doses, induce 'scintillations, agitation and even convulsions' so used in asthenic fever, epilepsy, chorea, hysteria and as an antihelminthic.' Fluckiger & Hanbury (1879) give a wonderful account of the history of its names, but give its use as 'stimulant and antispasmodic' as do Barton & Castle (1877). but by 1936 (Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia) its only use was 'Given in hysterical and neurotic conditions as a sedative. Its action has been attributed to its unpleasant smell'. The European Medicines Agency (2006) approves its use as a traditional herbal medicine for mild anxiety and sleeplessness for up to 4 weeks. Despite what is written continuously about its use in ancient Greece and Rome, the only reason for its use has been because it was thought, for a brief while, to be good for epilepsy and therefore might deal with persons of a nervous disposition because of its foul smell. It has been suggested that even its Greek name, 'Phu' came from the expression of disgust which is made when one sniffs an unpleasant odour. For 1,800 years, before the last century, no-one had thought it sedative. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A dissertation on the natural history and medicinal effects of the secale cornutum, or ergot / By Oliver Prescott. Read at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, June 2, 1813.
  • A dissertation on the natural history and medicinal effects of the secale cornutum, or ergot / By Oliver Prescott. Read at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, June 2, 1813.
  • A treatise on the medicinal leech; including its medical and natural history, with a description of its anatomical structure; also remarks upon the diseases, preservation and management of leeches / [James Rawlins Johnson].
  • A treatise on the medicinal leech; including its medical and natural history, with a description of its anatomical structure; also remarks upon the diseases, preservation and management of leeches / [James Rawlins Johnson].
  • A medicinal dictionary; including ... chymistry, and botany ... Together with a history of drugs ... and an introductory preface, tracing the progress of physic, and explaining the theories which have ... prevail'd in all ages / [R. James].
  • The entire works of Dr Thomas Sydenham : newly made English from the originals: wherein the history of acute and chronic diseases, and the safest and most effectual methods of treating them, are faithfully, clearly, and accurately delievered. To which are added, explanatory and practical notes, from the best medicinal writers.
  • The entire works of Dr. Thomas Sydenham, newly made English from the originals: wherein the history of acute and chronic diseases, and the safest and most effectual methods of treating them, are faithfully, clearly, and accurately delivered. To which are added, explanatory and practical notes, from the best medicinal writers / By John Swan.
  • Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies : in which are inserted divers anatomical discoveries, and medicinal observations, with the history of the parts illustrated with above fourscore figures, drawn after the life and to every chapter a syllabus of the parts describ'd, for the instruction of young anatomists / by James Drake ... [Appendix].
  • Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies : in which are inserted divers anatomical discoveries, and medicinal observations, with the history of the parts illustrated with above fourscore figures, drawn after the life and to every chapter a syllabus of the parts describ'd, for the instruction of young anatomists / by James Drake ... [Appendix].
  • Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies : in which are inserted divers anatomical discoveries, and medicinal observations, with the history of the parts illustrated with above fourscore figures, drawn after the life and to every chapter a syllabus of the parts describ'd, for the instruction of young anatomists / by James Drake ... [Appendix].
  • Anthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy. Describing the animal oeconomy, and a short rationale of many distempers incident to human bodies : in which are inserted divers anatomical discoveries, and medicinal observations, with the history of the parts illustrated with above fourscore figures, drawn after the life and to every chapter a syllabus of the parts describ'd, for the instruction of young anatomists / by James Drake ... [Appendix].