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  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Scadoxus multiflorus Raf. Amaryllidaceae. Blood Flower, Poison root, Fireball Lily. Distribution: Sub-Saharan Africa. The genus name is a concatenation of the Greek words, Sciadion meaning a parasol or umbel, and doxa meaning 'glorious'
  • Acorus gramineus 'Oborozuki'
  • Chinese Materia medica, C17: Plant drugs, Sophora flavescens
  • C19 Chinese MS moxibustion point chart: Quchi
  • Chinese Materia medica, C17: Birds, red-rumped swallow
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Warm spring water
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Snakes
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Plum rain water
  • Four British garden plants, including a clematis: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Head of a man with a severe disease affecting his face. Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Kate Mills, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • Congenital hairy mole affecting the lower stomach and thighs of a boy
  • Young boy with smallpox
  • Blood clot forming over a wound
  • Congenital hairy mole affecting the lower back, buttocks and thighs of a boy
  • Chimney sweep's cancer
  • Pustular eruption of smallpox on face
  • Inula helenium L. Asteraceae. Elecampine, Elecampane, Enulae campinae Distribution: Britain, S. Europe to the Himalayas. Used medicinally for 2,000 years. Culpeper (1650) writes ‘Elecampane, is ... wholesome for the stomach, resists poison, helps old coughs and shortness of breath, helps ruptures and provokes lust
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Bezoars, etc.
  • A woman (Le Sanying) with tumours on her forehead and under her left ear. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1838.