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  • Calender mit Underrichtung astronomischer Wirckungen natürlichen Influentz der Gestirn, Planeten unnd himlischen Zeychen, nach welchen gebürliche Artznei und Medicin, so der Astronomei fürnemlich angehörig, sol gethon werden ... Dabei rechter Bericht, künstliche astronomische und mathematische Instrument zuzerichten.
  • Equinoctial ring-dial signed "A.C. Toblhanhb Mockba" (i.e. A.S. Trinidin, Moscow) undated, 18th century. One side of instrument showing inscriptions on dials (some of numerical inscriptions and the names of the signs of the Zodiac are duplicated in Arabic, using Abjad for the numerals) also the calender scale which may compensate for the equation of time.
  • Observatio anatom.-medica singularis mulieris cuiusdam calend. Januarii A*1 M.DCXLIV. tres filios naturalis magnitudinis viventes enixae. Puerpera vero retentis secundinis, extremum quasi halitum spirabat...foeliciter evasit / [Michael Rupert Besler].
  • J. H. Bell, D.M. Callender, C. H. Houghton, No. 4 (University) Company, Queen's Royal Volunteer Battalion
  • Calendula officinalis L. Asteraceae. Pot marigold, common marigold, ruds or ruddles. Calendula, because it was said to flower most commonly at the first of each month - the 'calends' (Coles, 1657). officinalis indicates that it was used in the 'offices' - the clinics - of the monks in medieval times. Annual herb. Distribution: Southern Europe. The Doctrine of Signatures, indicated that as the flowers resembled the pupil of the eye (along with Arnica, Inula and the ox-eye daisy), it was good for eye disorders (Porta, 1588). Coles (1658) writes '... the distilled water ... helpeth red and watery eyes, being washed therewith, which it does by Signature, as Crollius saith'. Culpeper writes: [recommending the leaves] '... loosen the belly, the juice held in the mouth helps the toothache and takes away any inflammation, or hot swelling being bathed with it mixed with a little vinegar.' The petals are used as a saffron substitute - ‘formerly much employed as a carminative
  • Astrology: an almanac for Utrecht for 1655. Letterpress with woodcuts, 1654.
  • Wadham College, Oxford: aerial panoramic view with historic figures in the foreground. Line engraving by G. Vertue, 1738.
  • Wadham College, Oxford: aerial panoramic view with historic figures in the foreground. Line engraving by G. Vertue, 1738.
  • A physician in his study writing a prescription for his waiting patient. Oil painting by Pieter Jakob Horemans, 1745.
  • A physician in his study writing a prescription for his waiting patient. Oil painting by Pieter Jakob Horemans, 1745.
  • A physician in his study writing a prescription for his waiting patient. Oil painting by Pieter Jakob Horemans, 1745.
  • A physician in his study writing a prescription for his waiting patient. Oil painting by Pieter Jakob Horemans, 1745.
  • Wadham College, Oxford: from the garden. Line engraving by J. Dadley, 1795, after E. Dayes.
  • Memorial of European events in the year 1714. Engraving by Christoph Weigel, c. 1722.
  • Saint Bartholomew's Hospital reports.
  • Saint Bartholomew's Hospital reports.
  • Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, 1903-1904.
  • Edinburgh University group portrait, 1900
  • Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh 1902-1903
  • Group portrait, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, 1904
  • Vienna Group Portrait - Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat, 1905
  • Group portrait at Edinburgh University
  • Edinburgh University Summer Session 1903.
  • Queen's Royal Volunteer Battalion.