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  • Radium, and other radio-active substances : polonium, actinium, and thorium. With a consideration of phosphorescent and fluorescent substances, the properties and applications of selenium, and the treatment of disease by the ultra-violet light / by William J. Hammer.
  • Albert Smith standing on the balcony of a chalet in front of the painted backdrop of Mont Blanc at midnight by William Beverley, addressing a large audience. Lithograph after J.O. Parry, 185-.
  • Albert Smith standing on the balcony of a chalet in front of the painted backdrop of Mont Blanc at midday by William Beverley, addressing a large audience. Lithograph after J.O. Parry, 185-.
  • Fox running out of the House of Commons in the middle of a debate with William Pitt the younger about the Regency crisis: he is excreting as he runs, which refers to a bout of dysentery he caught on route from Bologna. Etching by J. Gillray, 1788.
  • The body of a youth with his trunk dissected to reveal the ribs and viscera, especially the position of the heart. Coloured lithograph by J.B. Léveillé after William Fairland, 1869.
  • Every evening at 7.45, on a scale of grand magnificance, a new edition of the grand fairy spectacular opera, Babil & Bijou or, the lost regalia : by Dion Boucicault & J.R. Planche ... / Alhambra Theatre, manager, William Holland.
  • The body of a youth with his trunk dissected: two figures showing the ribs and viscera, especially the position of the heart in systole and diastole. Coloured lithograph by J.B. Léveillé after William Fairland, 1869.
  • The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan, originally prepared under the authority of the government of India, and reproduced by order of the secretary of state for India in council / edited by J. Forbes Watson and John William Kaye.
  • "The monster" (Renwick Williams) attacking a woman with a knife and fork. Etching by J. Gillray, 1790.
  • University Museum, Oxford: detail of the window. Wood engraving by J.M. Williams, 1860, after A.M. Williams.
  • Obstetrics : a textbook for the use of students and practitioners / by J. Whitridge Williams.
  • The British Museum: the Roman Saloon, with visitors. Wood engraving attributed to J. and A. Williams, 1857.
  • Two men sit drinking and smoking at a tavern table. Engraving by J. Williams, c. 1792, after a painting attributed to A. Brouwer.
  • King Charles I. Engraving by H. Bourne after J.L. Williams after A. van Dyck.
  • Barber-surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the interior of the Court-Room, with a reception taking place. Wood engraving by J. and A. Williams, 1856.
  • An old dragon tree (Dracaena draco) with a gash in its stem releasing its "dragon's blood" resin and a door in its trunk. Aquatint with etching by R. G. Reeve after J. J. Williams, c.1819.
  • Barber-surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the door of the hall, with a uniformed attendant standing to the left. Wood engraving attributed to J. and A. Williams, 1856.
  • A young man, in the presence of his father, is examined by an academic for admission to university. Etching by J. Williams, 1772, after H.W. Bunbury.
  • Death as a skeleton is about to cut down with a scythe two plants in which people are living. Wood engraving by J.L. Williams after E.K. Johnson.
  • The pathology and diagnosis of diseases of the chest; illustrated especially by a rational exposition of their physical signs. With new researches on the sounds of the heart / [Charles J.B. Williams].
  • Camassia leichtlinii (Baker)S.Watson Hyacinthaceae. Great Camas, Quamash. The species was named for Maximillian Leichtlin (1831-1910 of Baden , Germany, bulb enthusiast who corresponded with J.G. Baker at Kew. Bulbous herb. Distribution: North America. The bulbs of Camassia species were eaten by the Native Americans, the Nez Perce, after cooking by steaming for a day - which suggests they may be poisonous raw. They gave them to the American explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clerk, on their expedition (1804-1806) when they ran out of food. The bulbs of the similar looking 'Death camus', Toxicoscordion venenosum have been fatal when ingested by mistake (RBG Kew on-line). Steroidal saponins, which are precursors in the manufacture of steroids and cytotoxic activity has been detected in the sap of the bulbs. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Edinburgh University Group portrait. Including H.G. Dunbar , C.M. Campbell, A.N. Fell, Alexander Frew, R.G. Gordon, David Hepburn, A.W.M. Harvey, Mathew Holmes, E.B., M.B., Ch.B. Jamieson, E. L. Meynell, John Lovett, William Maclaren, Sir William Turner, K.C.B., William Lilico, B.P. Watson, S.A.K., Wilson, David Waterson, I. Scott, R.E. Russell, A.B. Ross, H.H. Robarts.
  • Austro-Prussian War: the Prussian King William I visiting wounded soldiers lying in a barn. Lithograph after H. Jenny, ca. 1866.
  • William Harvey demonstrating the palpitations of the foetal heart of a deer to Charles I. Engraving by H. Lemon, 1851, after an oil painting by R. Hannah, 1848.
  • William Harvey demonstrating the palpitations of the foetal heart of a deer to Charles I. Engraving by H. Lemon, 1851, after an oil painting by R. Hannah, 1848.
  • A room of Quakers gossiping about the marriage of William Allen to Mrs. Grizell Birkbeck, seen on the left, affirming their vows. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, 1827.
  • A room of Quakers gossiping about the marriage of William Allen to Mrs. Grizell Birkbeck, seen on the left, affirming their vows. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, 1827.
  • The secretes of the reverend Maister Alexis of Piemont [pseud.? i. e. Girolamo Ruscelli?] Containing excellent remedies against divers diseases, woundes, and other accidentes, with the manner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyinges, colours, fusions, and meltinges. A worke well approved, verye profitable and necessarie for everye man. Newely corrected and amended, and also somewhat enlarged in certaine places, whiche wanted in the fyrst edition / Translated oute of Frenche into Englyshe, by William Warde.
  • A sure guide; or, the best and nearest way to physick and chyrurgery .... Being an anatomical description of the whol [sic] body of man, and its parts, with their respective diseases .... In six books .... / Englished by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. and W.R. doctor of the liberal arts, and of physick [i.e. William Rand].
  • Matthiola incana (L.)W.T.Aiton Brassicaceae Distribution: The genus name commemorates Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500/1–77), physician and botanist, whose name is Latinised to Matthiolus.. Incana means hoary or grey, referring to the colour of the leaves. Mattioli's commentaries on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides were hugely popular. Matthiola incana was first described by Linnaeus as Cheiranthus incanus, being changed to Matthiola by William Aiton, at Kew, in 1812. It is in the cabbage family. Commercial seed packets contain a mixture of single and double forms. The latter are sterile, but selective breeding has increased the proportion of double forms from the seed of single forms to as much as 80%. ‘Ten week stocks’ are popular garden annuals, flowering in the year of sowing, whereas ‘Brompton stocks’ (another variety of M. incana) are biennials, flowering the following year. Gerard (1633), called them Stocke Gillofloure or Leucoium, and notes the white and purple forms, singles and doubles. About their medicinal value he writes ‘not used in Physicke except among certain Empiricks and Quacksalvers, about love and lust matters, which for modestie I omit’. The thought of a member of the cabbage family being an aphrodisiac might encourage the gullible to take more seriously the government’s plea to eat five portions of vegetable/fruit per day. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.