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  • Ambrosia altera.
  • Ambrosia altera.
  • Ambrosia altera.
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  • Ambrosia altera.
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
  • Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by A. Duménil, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • The triumph of the physician Jacobus Castricus (Jacques van den Kasteele): allegorical figures of Practice and Theory accompany him in a chariot under a triumphal arch; in the foreground, honey, mint and artemisia and mythical beasts are tramping on the contorted bodies of plague, fever and dropsy. Process print after H. Holbein (?), ca. 1540.
  • Josiah Eaton, a long distance walker. Coloured stipple engraving by S. Freeman after T.C. Smith.
  • A figure composed of barrels batters the drooping head of a thistle; representing the forced resignation of Lord Melville following implications of malversation and the vote on Whitbread's motion. Aquatint by J. Sayer, 1805.
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Vomiting, coughing etc.