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  • Allen & Hanbury' Food : for infants, invalids, convalescents and the aged.
  • In chronic bronchial asthma and emphysema, Choledyl... / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • In chronic bronchial asthma and emphysema, Choledyl... / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • In chronic bronchial asthma and emphysema, Choledyl... / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • In chronic bronchial asthma and emphysema, Choledyl... / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • Allen & Hanburys Ltd : manufacturing chemists and makers of surgical instruments.
  • Allen & Hanburys' Food : for infants, invalids, convalescents and the aged.
  • [Letter accompanying Allen & Hanburys' Food for infants, invalids, convalescents and the aged.].
  • 'Byno' hypophosphates : an ideal tonic in nervous prostration and overstrain / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • 'Byno' hypophosphates : an ideal tonic in nervous prostration and overstrain / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • A reference list of surgical instruments and medical appliances, orthopædic and deformity apparatus, hospital furniture and equipment, electro-medical and surgical apparatus, etc / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • A reference list of surgical instruments and medical appliances, orthopædic and deformity apparatus, hospital furniture and equipment, electro-medical and surgical apparatus, etc / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • Bynin Emulsion : an emulsion of cod liver oil in Bynin liquid malt, with hypophosphites : a nerve food and restorative, easy of assimilation, a concentrated nutrient ... October 1906 ... / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • Bynin Emulsion : an emulsion of cod-liver oil in Bynin, liquid malt, with hypophosphites : a nerve food and restorative, easy of assimilation ... a concentrated nutrient ... January 1909 ... / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • 'Bynin' Emulsion : an emulsion of cod-liver oil in Bynin, liquid malt, with hypophosphites : a nerve food and restorative, easy of assimilation ... a concentrated nutrient ... January 1910 ... / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • Urine Testing Apparatus.
  • Valeriana officinalis L. Valerianaceae Valerianus, Phu, Nardus sylvestris, Setwal. Distribution: Europe. Popular herbalism attributes sedation to Valerian, but this is not mentioned by Coles (1657) or Gerard (1633) or Lobel (1576) or Lyte (1578) or Dioscorides (ex Gunther, 1959) or Fuchs (1553), where he quotes Pliny, Dioscorides and Galen, or Parkinson (1640), or Pomet (1712). The English translation of Tournefort (1719-1730) covers a whole page of the uses of all the different valerians, but never mentions sedation or treating anxiety. Quincy (1718) does not mention it. Because it was used in epilepsy, for which Woodville (1792) says it was useless, Haller, in his Historia stirpium indegenarum Helvetae inchoatae (1768) advocates it for those with irritability of the nervous system, as does Thomson's London Dispensatory (1811) although he lists it as an 'antispasmodic and stimulant' and for inducing menstruation. Lindley (1838) notes (as many did) that the roots smell terrible and that this makes cats excited, and in man, in large doses, induce 'scintillations, agitation and even convulsions' so used in asthenic fever, epilepsy, chorea, hysteria and as an antihelminthic.' Fluckiger & Hanbury (1879) give a wonderful account of the history of its names, but give its use as 'stimulant and antispasmodic' as do Barton & Castle (1877). but by 1936 (Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia) its only use was 'Given in hysterical and neurotic conditions as a sedative. Its action has been attributed to its unpleasant smell'. The European Medicines Agency (2006) approves its use as a traditional herbal medicine for mild anxiety and sleeplessness for up to 4 weeks. Despite what is written continuously about its use in ancient Greece and Rome, the only reason for its use has been because it was thought, for a brief while, to be good for epilepsy and therefore might deal with persons of a nervous disposition because of its foul smell. It has been suggested that even its Greek name, 'Phu' came from the expression of disgust which is made when one sniffs an unpleasant odour. For 1,800 years, before the last century, no-one had thought it sedative. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Capriton tablets.
  • Capriton tablets.
  • Allen & Hanbury,General Pharmaceutical Laboratory
  • Allen & Hanbury, interior views of old...
  • Allen & Hanbury,pate de guimauve - marshmallow - pan
  • Allen & Hanbury, compressing tabellae
  • Allen & Hanbury, general packing room
  • Allen & Hanburys, works at Bethnal Green
  • Allen & Hanbury, Vacuum pans
  • Dioxogen : a Redeal-Walker coefficient.
  • 'Polyglandin'.
  • 'Polyglandin'.
  • 'Polyglandin'.