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  • Tongue morphology: Heitai biandi hongshe, Chinese woodcut
  • Chinese woodcut: Medical instrument -- cupping vessel
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Pig trough/urine ditch water
  • Tongue diagnosis chart: Long, swollen, red, protruding tongue
  • Clathrin.
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Damupi plant
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - gumboil
  • Helleborus x hybridus Hort. Ex Vilmorin Ranunculaceae. A range of hybrids from Helleborus orientalis the Oriental hellebore. Distribution: Europe through to the Caucasus. All very poisonous. Culpeper (1650) says: “The roots (boiled in vinegar) ... be an admirable remedy against inveterate scabs, itch and leprosy, the same helps the toothache, being held in the mouth: dropped into the ears, helpeth deafness coming of melancholy and noises in the ears
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Brine
  • Helleborus x hybridus Hort. Ex Vilmorin Ranunculaceae. A range of hybrids from Helleborus orientalis the Oriental hellebore. Distribution: Europe through to the Caucasus. All very poisonous. Culpeper (1650) says: “The roots (boiled in vinegar) ... be an admirable remedy against inveterate scabs, itch and leprosy, the same helps the toothache, being held in the mouth
  • Gaston Ramon. Photograph.
  • Gaston Ramon. Photograph.
  • Tongue diagnosis chart, Chinese woodut, late Ming
  • Ming herbal (painting): Stork
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - boil between the eyebrows
  • Chinese woodcut: Instruments of petty surgery (5)
  • Human epithelial cells infected with E. coli
  • Human epithelial cells infected with E. coli
  • Human epithelial cells infected with E. coli
  • Human epithelial cells infected with E. coli
  • Human epithelial cells infected with E. coli
  • Human epithelial cells infected with E. coli
  • Human epithelial cells infected with E. coli
  • Tongue diagnosis chart: Red tongue with pale black centre
  • Louis Cobbett and Alfred Clark in the Pathology Department of Cambridge University. Copy photograph, ca. 1960 after the original photograph, ca. 1905 (?).
  • Japanese/Chinese woodcut: Pathology of pterygium
  • Chinese Materia Medica illustration, Ming: Cinnabar
  • Tongue diagnosis chart, Chinese woodcut, late Ming
  • Work on diphteria, treatment by antitoxin
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - 'hanging corner' boil