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  • Mr. Mantle is hung on a gibbet with the rope breaking under his weight while men carrying halberds are looking on. Etching.
  • A dyer of cloth is dipping fabric into a large barrel as other sheets are hung up to dry. Woodcut by J. Amman..
  • Letter from Li Hung-Chang to the Directorship of the Honk Kong College of Medicine concerning his election as President to the College
  • The interior of a gallery hung with paintings and with tables laden with sculpture and curiosities. Etching by A.J. von Prenner after H. Jordaens III.
  • An animated pedestrian crossing sign hung with a blackboard containing a message of caution in crossing the road. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden, ca. 1940-1950.
  • The martyrdom of the Irish Protestants: the Protestants are dragged naked through the bogs, hung on tenter hooks, tied to poles and left to die. Etching by T. Stothard.
  • Four rows of washing lines on which coloured condoms are hung against a black background, advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Marco Pellanda, 1992, for Wizard & Genius-Idealdecor.
  • Executions of Huguenots after the Huguenot conspiracy of Amboise in 1560: some conspirators are hung by the neck from a tower, others are beheaded. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
  • Two children examining a hare and a fowl hung up after a hunt while a younger child sits on the ground eating bread. Engraving by C. W. Sharpe after H. Browne.
  • (left) A man who has hanged himself, (right) a man who has drowned being reuscitated. A manuscript with details describing techniques to resuscitating people who have drowned, hung themeselves, collapsed or lost consciousness.
  • In a room hung with black drapes to show mourning, Ramble Gripe, in the company of a pregnant woman holding out a ring, and her mother with a letter, is measured by a tailor; a coffin lid leans against the fireplace. Engraving by Thomas Bowles, 1735.
  • Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Leipzig, Germany: medical historians: group portrait. Photograph, 1929.
  • Leipzig, Germany: medical historians: group portrait. Photograph, 1929.
  • Leipzig, Germany: medical historians posing on the steps of a building: group portrait. Photograph, 1929.
  • Leipzig: medical historians on the steps of a building. Photograph, 1929.
  • Leipzig: medical historians on the steps of a building. Photograph, 1929.
  • Leipzig: medical historians posing in a garden with watering cans. Photograph, 1929.
  • A doctor examining a patient and enquiring about his health, leading to a mis-apprehension. Coloured lithograph, c.1848(?), by Gnat.
  • One of the seven Acts of Mercy: Feed the hungry. Line engraving by S. Bourdon after himself.
  • Paris: a rich couple walk away in disgust at the feeding of poor and hungry soldiers. Wood engraving.
  • Hamburg: four poor people accused of idleness are suspended in a basket over a table of diners in a workhouse. Engraving, 1779.
  • An angel saves a thirsting Elijah. Engraving by A. Zucchi, c. 1720, after S. Manaigo after G. Porta, il Salviati.
  • An angel gives Elijah cake and water. Line engraving by W. Panneels after P.P. Rubens.
  • Leipzig, Germany: medical historians: group portrait. Photograph, 1929.
  • The people of Moses receive manna from heaven in the wilderness. Engraving by B. Audran I after N. Poussin, 1637-1639.
  • James Scott, Australian medical student, lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food. Drawing by Martin Howard Boscott, 1993.
  • Oliver Twist, holding a bowl and a spoon, asks for more food, while other children and a woman look surprised. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • Bernardus Paludanus. Line engraving by H. Bary after Jan van de Velde after H.G. Pot.