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  • Arnold & Sons (Savory & Moore Ltd.) [letterhead] : Directors: E.T. Neathercoat, Ph.C., E.A. Umney, Ph.C, E.J.C. Savory, J.E. Saul, Ph. C., F.I.C. : makers of veterinary instruments and appliances : Standard Works, Lawrence Road, Tottenham, N.15.
  • The prodigal son returns home by boat to a large party. Etching by J. Wachsmuth after C.J. Vernet and J.C. Tardieu.
  • Daedalus attaching wings to the shoulders of his son, Icarus. Stipple engraving by G.S. and J.G. Facius, 1779, after C. Lebrun.
  • Dr. J.H. Schenck & Son's family medicines for the cure of consumption, liver complaint, and dyspepsia : for sale by all druggists / Dr. J.H. Schenck & Son.
  • Dr. J.H. Schenck & Son's family medicines for the cure of consumption, liver complaint, and dyspepsia : for sale by all druggists / Dr. J.H. Schenck & Son.
  • Dr. J.H. Schenck & Son's family medicines for the cure of consumption, liver complaint, and dyspepsia : for sale by all druggists / Dr. J.H. Schenck & Son.
  • Dr. J.H. Schenck & Son's family medicines for the cure of consumption, liver complaint, and dyspepsia : for sale by all druggists / Dr. J.H. Schenck & Son.
  • The death of General Montgomery, at Quebec, all around are soldiers and native Americans. Coloured engraving by J. C. Armytage after J. Trumbull.
  • A fern, a moss, a fungus and an alga: all with anatomical details. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799.
  • Ayer's cherry pectoral cures colds, coughs and all diseases of the throat and lungs / prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.
  • Ayer's cherry pectoral cures colds, coughs and all diseases of the throat and lungs / prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.
  • Ayer's cherry pectoral cures colds, coughs & all diseases of the throat and lungs / Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.
  • Ayer's Ague Cure is warranted to cure fever & ague and all malarial disorders / prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.
  • Ayer's Ague Cure is warranted to cure fever & ague and all malarial disorders / prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.
  • A horse (top) showing all the fashionable tack, and details of the locking mechanism for the tack (below). Engraving, c.1762, by R. Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Professors C.B. Spruyt and Van Pesch are told by Death that all knowledge comes from him; referring to the change in electoral law concerning the minimum voting age. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.
  • Origanum dictamnus L. Lamiaceae Dittany of Crete, Hop marjoram. Distribution: Crete. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘... hastens travail [labour] in women, provokes the Terms [menstruation] . See the Leaves.’ Under 'Leaves' he writes: ‘Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, ... brings away dead children, hastens womens travail, brings away the afterbirth, the very smell of it drives away venomous beasts, so deadly an enemy is it to poison, it’s an admirable remedy against wounds and Gunshot, wounds made with poisoned weapons, draws out splinters, broken bones etc. They say the goats and deers in Creet, being wounded with arrows, eat this herb, which makes the arrows fall out of themselves.' Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (c. 100 AD, trans. Beck, 2005), Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants all have this information, as does Vergil’s Aeneid where he recounts how Venus produced it when her son, Aeneas, had received a deadly wound from an arrow, which fell out on its own when the wound was washed with it (Jashemski, 1999). Dioscorides attributes the same property to ‘Tragium’ or ‘Tragion’ which is probably Hypericum hircinum (a St. John’s Wort): ‘Tragium grows in Crete only ... the leaves and the seed and the tear, being laid on with wine doe draw out arrow heads and splinteres and all things fastened within ... They say also that ye wild goats having been shot, and then feeding upon this herb doe cast out ye arrows.’ . It has hairy leaves, in common with many 'vulnaries', and its alleged ability to heal probably has its origin in the ability of platelets to coagulate more easily on the hairs (in the same way that cotton wool is applied to a shaving cut to hasten clotting). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and Athens : Two lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain / by Richard Caton.
  • Soldiers posing for a group portrait outside a large building. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Soldiers posing for a group portrait outside a large building. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Water filter designed by C. Chamberland.
  • Drug advertising ephemera. Box 32.
  • Drug advertising ephemera. Box 32.
  • Drug advertising ephemera. Box 32.
  • Drug advertising ephemera. Box 32.
  • Drug advertising ephemera. Box 32.
  • Drug advertising ephemera. Box 32.
  • Drug advertising ephemera. Box 32.
  • Drug advertising ephemera. Box 32.
  • C. Maitland, Mr. Maitland's account of inocu