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  • Seneca preparing his own death: he begs his wife to temper her grief. Etching by J.F.P. Peyron, ca. 1773.
  • Baldwin's Nervous Pills : cures nervousness, irritability of temper, want of strength and energy, fear, dread, neuralgia, hysteria, disturbed sleep, melancholy, insomnia, and all nerve pain and diseases.
  • A doctor asking his patients husband how she is, he replies (amidst a devasted room) that he's not sure but she certainly has a temper. Wood engraving by H ..., 1904.
  • Petasites paradoxus Baumg. Asteraceae Alpine Butterbur. Herbaceous Perennial. Distribution: Temperate Northern hemisphere. It contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids, which are hepatotoxic and cause liver cancers. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Astro-meteorologica, or aphorism's and discourses of the bodies coelestial, their natures and influences. Discovered from the variety of the alterations of the air, temperate, or intemperate, as to heat and cold ... sickness epidemical, maculae solis, and other secrets of nature / [J. Goad].
  • An enquiry into the right use and abuses of the hot, cold, and temperate baths in England ... With a particular description of ... Buxton-Bath ... To this is added I. An extract of Dr. Jones's Treaty on Buxton-Bath ... II. A letter from Dr. Clayton ... concerning the use of St. Mungus-Well. III. An abstract of some cures perform'd by the bath at Buxton ... / [Sir John Floyer].
  • Polemonium caeruleum L. Polemoniaceae Jacob's ladder, Greek Valerian. Hardy perennial. Distribution: Temperate Europe. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Beck, 2005), and Lyte (1578) recommended it drunk in wine, for malignant ulcers, dysentery, difficulty in micturition, hip disease. The root was worn round the neck to protect against scorpions, and stopped toothache if chewed. Called Valerian Graeca by Dodoens (1551) and Parkinson (1640), Valeriana peregrina Belgarum by Lobel (1576). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Papaver rhoeas L. Papaveraceae Corn Poppy, Flanders Poppy. Distribution: Temperate Old World. Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959) recommended five or six seed heads in wine to get a good night's sleep the leaves and seeds applied as a poultice to heal inflammation, and the decoction sprinkled on was soporiferous. Culpeper (1650) ' ... Syrup of Red, or Erratick Poppies: by many called Corn-Roses. ... Some are of the opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other - believe them that list [wishes to]: I know no danger in this syrup, so it be taken in moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts
  • Geranium sanguineum L. Geraniaceae Dusky cranesbill. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: Europe and temperate Asia. County flower of Northumberland. This seems to be the 'Sanguin geranium or Blood Roote', Geranium haematodes/haematites, of Lyte (1578). He writes that it is 'not used in Medicyne.' Parkinson (1640) classifies cranesbills somewhat differently, but says that 'all are found to be effectual both in inward and outward wounds, to stay bleedings, vomitings and fluxes, eyther the decoction of the herbe or the powder of the leaves and roots used as the cause demands. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Papaver rhoeas L. Papaveraceae Corn Poppy, Flanders Poppy. Distribution: Temperate Old World. Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959) recommended five or six seed heads in wine to get a good night's sleep the leave and seeds applied as a poultice to heal inflammation, and the decoction sprinkled on was soporiferous. Culpeper (1650) ' ... Syrup of Red, or Erratick Poppies: by many called Corn-Roses. ... Some are of the opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other - believe them that list [who wish to]: I know no danger in this syrup, so it be taken in moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts
  • An American woman preaching Prohibition to a crowd of well-dressed American citizens. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • Children demonstrating against alcohol. Colour lithograph, 189-.
  • The harmful effects of wine. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • Bar-chart indicating the effects of drinking alcoholic drinks on children's school results in Vienna. Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.
  • Brain and nerve cells in their healthy state and after injury by alcohol. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • The supposed benefits of beer are illusory. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • Paris quadrifolia L. Trilliaceae Herb Paris Distribution: Europe and temperate Asia. This dramatic plant was known as Herb Paris or one-berry. Because of the shape of the four leaves, resembling a Burgundian cross or a true love-knot, it was also known as Herb True Love. Prosaically, the name ‘Paris’ stems from the Latin ‘pars’ meaning ‘parts’ referring to the four equal leaves, and not to the French capital or the lover of Helen of Troy. Sixteenth century herbalists such as Fuchs, who calls it Aconitum pardalianches which means leopard’s bane, and Lobel who calls it Solanum tetraphyllum, attributed the poisonous properties of Aconitum to it. The latter, called monkshood and wolfsbane, are well known as poisonous garden plants. Gerard (1633), however, reports that Lobel fed it to animals and it did them no harm, and caused the recovery of a dog poisoned deliberately with arsenic and mercury, while another dog, which did not receive Herb Paris, died. It was recommended thereafter as an antidote to poisons. Coles (1657) wrote 'Herb Paris is exceedingly cold, wherupon it is proved to represse the rage and force of any Poyson, Humour , or Inflammation.' Because of its 'cold' property it was good for swellings of 'the Privy parts' (where presumably hot passions were thought to lie), to heal ulcers, cure poisoning, plague, procure sleep (the berries) and cure colic. Through the concept of the Doctrine of Signatures, the black berry represented an eye, so oil distilled from it was known as Anima oculorum, the soul of the eye, and 'effectual for all the disease of the eye'. Linnaeus (1782) listed it as treating 'Convulsions, Mania, Bubones, Pleurisy, Opththalmia', but modern authors report the berry to be toxic. That one poison acted as an antidote to another was a common, if incorrect, belief in the days of herbal medicine. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Social questions in the orient : great mass meeting (under the auspices of the Anti-Opium Urgency Committee, the Christian Union for the Severance of the Connection of the British Empire with the Opium Trade, and the World's W.C.T.U.) in the Central Hall, Newcastle-0n-Tyne, Friday evening, November 23rd, 1894.
  • Social questions in the orient : great mass meeting (under the auspices of the Anti-Opium Urgency Committee, the Christian Union for the Severance of the Connection of the British Empire with the Opium Trade, and the World's W.C.T.U.) in the Central Hall, Newcastle-0n-Tyne, Friday evening, November 23rd, 1894.
  • Death-rates in pneumonia increase with alcoholic habits.
  • A reformed gentleman sits reading the "Teetotaler", surrounded by his wife, children and father. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • An abstinent gentleman is read to in the park by a boy. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • The tree of intemperance, showing diseases and vices caused by alcohol. Coloured lithograph, 18--.
  • Parents' drinking weakens children's vitality : comparison of children in 50 abstaining and 59 drinking families in one village in Finland ... drink menaces vigor and lives of children.
  • The Sheffield election of 1868: (left) two men play cards and drink in a warm pub; (right) two women (one with a baby) beg and cower in a snowy street. Transfer lithograph, 1868.
  • I wonder what next they will do : the great topical song / written by Charles Merion ; composed by Vincent Davies ; sung by Herbert Campbell in the successful pantomime, The Grim Goblin, at the Grecian Theatre.
  • A reformed and fashionable gentleman exits from the church with his beautiful bride. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • The "American Pledge" for total abstinence surrounded by an ornate border. Lithograph, c. 1860 (?).
  • A skeleton clutching a bottle labelled "Alcoholisme"; advertising an exhibition on alcohol abuse in the Hague, 1911. Lithograph, 1911, after F.M.
  • A warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers: faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others : with above one hundred and twenty sad and dreadful examples of Gods severe judgements upon notorious drunkards ... To which is added His Majesties proclamation against vicious ... persons ... Also some cautions of a learned doctor of physick [i.e. Everard Maynwaring], declaring how intemperate drinking destroyes our bodily health and strength.