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  • Phyllosan: a doctor telling a couple to take Phyllosan to compensate for the stress of modern life. Halftone and letterpress, 1937.
  • Birkbeck, T. B.
  • Stoma and chloroplasts of maize leaf
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half
  • Theory of diseases treated with chaihu guizhi tang, Chinese
  • Theory of diseases treated with Minor Bupleurum decoction
  • James Graham and Gustavus Katterfelto in combat using electrotherapy machines as weapons. Etching, 1783.