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  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Diagrams illustrating: bandaged legs in splints, bandaged upper bodies and bandaged heads and eyes. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1811, after J. Farey, the younger (?).
  • Methods of bandaging a broken leg: eight figures, showing femur and tibia bones broken at various points and the appropriate methods of applying bandages and splints. Lithograph, 18--?.
  • Diagrams illustrating: five bandaged legs (three with different sorts of splints), two heads showing veins, a bandaged head, a bandaged torso, a recepticle with body for curing shoulder dislocations and an eye operation. Line engraving by W.H. Lizars, 1830.
  • The manufacture of Magdalenian bone needles. Showing the bone from which splinters have been taken, gravers, hone, toothed tool for rounding splinters, and finished needles.
  • Laverack's embrocation : for horses and cattle : one of the best applications for general use in the stable and farmyard : for splints, curbs, sprains, sprung sinews, lameness, bruises, sore throat, influenza, wedged ures, &c., &c. : may be used with great advantage by human beings / Laverack and Sons.
  • Laverack's embrocation : for horses and cattle : one of the best applications for general use in the stable and farmyard : for splints, curbs, sprains, sprung sinews, lameness, bruises, sore throat, influenza, wedged ures, &c., &c. : may be used with great advantage by human beings / Laverack and Sons.
  • Spanish reliquary statue of Saint John of God (Juan de Dios), patron saint of hospitals and the sick, who was canonised in 1690. The relic it contains is said to be a splinter of his walking stick.
  • Spanish reliquary statue of Saint John of God (Juan de Dios), patron saint of hospitals and the sick, who was canonised in 1690. The relic it contains is said to be a splinter of his walking stick.
  • Spanish reliquary statue of Saint John of God (Juan de Dios), patron saint of hospitals and the sick, who was canonised in 1690. The relic it contains is said to be a splinter of his walking stick.
  • Spanish reliquary statue of Saint John of God (Juan de Dios), patron saint of hospitals and the sick, who was canonised in 1690. The relic it contains is said to be a splinter of his walking stick.
  • Spanish reliquary statue of Saint John of God (Juan de Dios), patron saint of hospitals and the sick, who was canonised in 1690. The relic it contains is said to be a splinter of his walking stick.
  • Spanish reliquary statue of Saint John of God (Juan de Dios), patron saint of hospitals and the sick, who was canonised in 1690. The relic it contains is said to be a splinter of his walking stick.
  • Agrimonia eupatoria L. Agrimony, Eupatorium, Maudlein. Perennial herb. The species name comes from king Mithridates Eupator VI of Pontus (132-63 BC) who took regular doses of poison to develop an immunity to them. A 'Mithridate' was a medicine against poisons. Distribution: N. and S. Africa, N. Asia, Europe. '…provokes urine and the terms [periods], dries the brain, opens stoppings, helps the green sickness [iron deficiency anaemia], and profits such as have a cold weak liver outwardly applied it takes away the hardness of the matrix [=uterus] and fills hollow ulcers with flesh' (Culpeper, 1650). Dioscorides (Beck, 2005) recommends mashed leaves in hog's grease for healing scarring ulcers, and the seed in wine for dysentery and serpent bites. Goodyear's 1655 translation of Dioscorides (Gunther 2000) has this as cannabis, which Parkinson (1640) says is in error and summarises the manifold uses from classical authors, from removing splinters to stopping menorrhagia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Origanum dictamnus L. Lamiaceae Dittany of Crete, Hop marjoram. Distribution: Crete. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘... hastens travail [labour] in women, provokes the Terms [menstruation] . See the Leaves.’ Under 'Leaves' he writes: ‘Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, ... brings away dead children, hastens womens travail, brings away the afterbirth, the very smell of it drives away venomous beasts, so deadly an enemy is it to poison, it’s an admirable remedy against wounds and Gunshot, wounds made with poisoned weapons, draws out splinters, broken bones etc. They say the goats and deers in Creet, being wounded with arrows, eat this herb, which makes the arrows fall out of themselves.' Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (c. 100 AD, trans. Beck, 2005), Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants all have this information, as does Vergil’s Aeneid where he recounts how Venus produced it when her son, Aeneas, had received a deadly wound from an arrow, which fell out on its own when the wound was washed with it (Jashemski, 1999). Dioscorides attributes the same property to ‘Tragium’ or ‘Tragion’ which is probably Hypericum hircinum (a St. John’s Wort): ‘Tragium grows in Crete only ... the leaves and the seed and the tear, being laid on with wine doe draw out arrow heads and splinteres and all things fastened within ... They say also that ye wild goats having been shot, and then feeding upon this herb doe cast out ye arrows.’ . It has hairy leaves, in common with many 'vulnaries', and its alleged ability to heal probably has its origin in the ability of platelets to coagulate more easily on the hairs (in the same way that cotton wool is applied to a shaving cut to hasten clotting). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A Victorian child's shoe and leg caliper in leather and steel
  • A Victorian child's shoe and leg caliper in leather and steel
  • A Victorian child's shoe and leg caliper in leather and steel
  • A Victorian child's shoe and leg caliper in leather and steel
  • Diagrams illustrating how to set a broken arm. Stipple engraving.
  • Methods of bandaging a fractured patella. Etching by J. Bell.
  • A diagram illustrating an apparatus to bind together a broken leg. Etching by J. Bell.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as Christ when he arrives to treat sick people. Engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • A sailor setting the broken leg of another sailor after an accident on deck. Halftone after F. Brangwyn, 1895.
  • A piece of apparatus designed by J. Wathen to bind together a broken leg. Etching by J. Bell.
  • A man sitting in a chair reading while his leg is in traction and attached to a pulley mechanism. Wood engraving.
  • A man sitting in a chair reading while his leg is in traction and attached to a pulley mechanism. Wood engraving.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as Christ when he arrives to treat sick people. Coloured engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as Christ when he arrives to treat sick people. Coloured engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.