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  • Thomas Willis, Pathologiae cerebri, 1679
  • A practictioner of Mesmerism using Animal Magnetism
  • Calcio LADA con paratiroides / LADA, Laboratorios Aliados de América, S.A.
  • Calcio LADA con paratiroides / LADA, Laboratorios Aliados de América, S.A.
  • Brain with cyst in the pineal gland
  • Asafoetida plant (Ferula assa-foetida): flowering stem, leaves, seeds and root. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1806, after J. Ihle.
  • Balthasar Bekker and Christian Scriver sieve diseases from devils. Engraving, 1731.
  • Viola tricolor 'Black Magic'
  • First aid for lay people before the doctor arrives. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
  • Paediatric finger diagnosis chart: The 'Three Passes'
  • Words of comfort / [Dr. Jayne Company].
  • Paediatric finger diagnosis chart: Suspended needle pattern
  • Tulipa hybrid
  • Words of comfort / [Dr. Jayne Company].
  • Paediatric massage (tuina) chart for palm and inner forearm
  • Primula veris L. Primulaceae Cowslip, Herba paralysis Distribution: W. Asia, Europe. Fuchs ((1542) quotes Dioscorides Pliny and Galen, with numerous uses, from bruises, toothache, as a hair dye, for oedema, inflamed eye, and mixed with honey, wine or vinegar for ulcer and wounds, for scorpion bites, and pain in the sides and chest, and more. Lobel (1576) calls them Primula veriflorae, Phlomides, Primula veris, Verbascula. Lyte (1578) calls them Cowslippe, Petie mulleyn, Verbasculum odoratum, Primula veris, Herbae paralysis and Artheticae. Along with cowslips and oxeslips, he says they are 'used dayly among other pot herbes, but in Physicke there is no great account of them. They are good for the head and synewes ...'. Like other herbals of the 16th and 17th century, the woodcuts leave one in no doubt that Primula veris was being written about. However, other translators of Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959 with Goodyear's 1655 translation
  • An ecstatic eye. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • A witches' sabbath. Line engraving, 17--.
  • A witches' sabbath. Line engraving, 17--.
  • Helleborus x hybridus Hort. Ex Vilmorin Ranunculaceae. A range of hybrids from Helleborus orientalis the Oriental hellebore. Distribution: Europe through to the Caucasus. All very poisonous. Culpeper (1650) says: “The roots (boiled in vinegar) ... be an admirable remedy against inveterate scabs, itch and leprosy, the same helps the toothache, being held in the mouth: dropped into the ears, helpeth deafness coming of melancholy and noises in the ears
  • Chinese/Japanese Pulse Image chart: Yang Heel Vessel
  • Helleborus x hybridus Hort. Ex Vilmorin Ranunculaceae. A range of hybrids from Helleborus orientalis the Oriental hellebore. Distribution: Europe through to the Caucasus. All very poisonous. Culpeper (1650) says: “The roots (boiled in vinegar) ... be an admirable remedy against inveterate scabs, itch and leprosy, the same helps the toothache, being held in the mouth
  • C19 Chinese MS moxibustion point chart: Weizhong
  • Denderbelle, East Flanders, Belgium: pilgrims visiting the church of Saint Cornelius in search of cures for their nervous disorders. Engraving, ca. 191-.
  • Primula veris L. Primulaceae. Cowslip, Herba paralysis Distribution: W. Asia, Europe. Fuchs ((1542) quotes Dioscorides Pliny and Galen, with numerous uses, from bruises, toothache, as a hair dye, for oedema, inflamed eye, and mixed with honey, wine or vinegar for ulcer and wounds, for scorpion bites, and pain in the sides and chest, and more. Lobel (1576) calls them Primula veriflorae, Phlomides, Primula veris, Verbascula. Like other herbals of the 16th and 17th century, the woodcuts leave one in no doubt that Primula veris was being written about. However, other translators of Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959 with Goodyear's 1655 translation
  • Ming herbal (painting): Stork
  • Denderbelle, East Flanders, Belgium: pilgrims visiting the church of Saint Cornelius in search of cures for their nervous disorders. Engraving, ca. 191-.
  • Victor Frankenstein observing the first stirrings of his creature. Engraving by W. Chevalier after Th. von Holst, 1831.
  • Victor Frankenstein observing the first stirrings of his creature. Engraving by W. Chevalier after Th. von Holst, 1831.
  • Victor Frankenstein observing the first stirrings of his creature. Engraving by W. Chevalier after Th. von Holst, 1831.