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  • Bugle (Ajuga alpina): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1798.
  • A musician playing an Indian bugle. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A bugle flower (Ajuga reptans) and fescue grass (Festuca elatior). Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
  • Prunella vulgaris L. Lamiaceae Self Heal, Carpenter’s Herb, Sicklewort, Consolida minor. Distribution: Europe. Culpeper (1650): ‘See Bugle. So shall I not need to write the same thing twice, the vertues being the same.’ Under Bugle he writes: ‘Bugula. Bugle or middle Comfrey ... excellent for falls or inward bruises, for it dissolves congealed blood, profitable for inward wounds, helps the rickets and other stoppings of the Liver, outwardly it is of wonderful force in curing wounds and ulcers, though festered, as also gangrenes and fistulas, it helps broken bones and dislocations. To conclude, let my countrymen esteem it as a Jewel...’ Bugle is Ajuga reptans which has the same creeping habit, but is in another genus. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A youth with a bugle by a statue; representing genius. Etching by G.B. Castiglione, 1648, after himself.
  • A guard carrying a rifle, a sword and a bugle horn (?). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Three soldiers on horseback: one with a bugle, one with a cutlass, and one with and as a standard. Colour wood block.
  • Eglinton Tournament: front of Eglinton castle, a herald on horseback blowing a bugle. Lithograph by H. Wilson after C.A. d'Hardiviller, 1839.
  • White dead nettle (Lamium album) and common bugle (Ajuga reptans): entire flowering plants. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.
  • Men have arrive at an encampment on horses, one is blowing a bugle and another is persuading a young woman to have a drink. Engraving by Beaumont after P. Wouwermens.
  • Watsonia pillansii L.Bolus Iridaceae Bugle lily, Distribution: South Africa. Named for Sir William Watson (1715-1787), British botanist and physician, sometime censor at the Royal College of Physicians, London. No medicinal uses. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Watsonia pillansii L.Bolus Iridaceae Bugle lily, Distribution: South Africa. Named for Sir William Watson (1715-1787), British botanist and physician, sometime censor at the Royal College of Physicians, London. No medicinal uses. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Red Cross workers carrying wounded bugler into hospital / Underwood & Underwood, N.Y.
  • Red Cross workers carrying wounded bugler into hospital / Underwood & Underwood, N.Y.
  • Two uniformed men from the Medical Service Corps: a bugler and private. Collotype after a photograph.
  • Two buglers on horseback blowing a fanfare or signal. Etching by Ferdinand (Fernando), King of Portugal, 1841, after J.M. Foussereau.
  • Lazarus's sores are licked by dogs as Dives feasts. Process print, 1931, after J. Lamsveld.
  • Lazarus prays as his sores are licked by dogs; Dives feasts on his balcony. Engraving.
  • A wounded soldier is helped on the ground by a medical officer under instruction from a mounted army doctor. Coloured lithograph by C. F. Schindler, c. 1900.
  • A wounded soldier is helped on the ground by a medical officer under instruction from a mounted army doctor. Chromolithograph produced with a pantograph by C. F. Schindler, c. 1900.
  • Ajuga reptans 'Pink Elf'
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • Autolycus, a seller of trinkets, reciting a list of his wares to women and a shepherd who watch and point to them. Engraving by Lumb Stocks after C.R. Leslie.
  • Borago officinalis L. Boraginaceae. Borage. officinalis indicates it was used in the 'offices' - the consulting clinics - of medieval monks. Distribution: Europe. Culpeper: “... comforts the heart, cheers the spirit, drives away sadness and melancholy, they are rather laxative than binding