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  • Whittington's Almshouses, Highgate, London: facade. Etching by J. Davies after T.H. Shepherd.
  • L.T. Coggeshall. Photograph by L.J. Bruce-Chwatt.
  • Portrait caricature of L.T.J. Landouzy (1845-1917).
  • L.J. Bruce-Chwatt and T.S. Detinova. Photograph.
  • T.S. Detinova. Photograph by L.J. Bruce-Chwatt.
  • Portrait of L.T.J. Landouzy by Charaire, circa 1896
  • Nine scenes showing tea cultivation and preparation on an Indian plantation. Engraving by T. Brown, c. 1850, after J. L. Williams.
  • Nine scenes showing tea cultivation and preparation on an Indian plantation. Engraving by T. Brown, c. 1850, after J. L. Williams.
  • T.S. Detinova and two others. Photograph by L.J. Bruce-Chwatt.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine (10th Session) group portrait including Sir Patric Manson, M.C. Blair, R.F. de Boissiere, C.W. Daniels, A.H. Davies, J.T. Hancock O. Galgey, and E. Da Cunha, G. Hungerford, Sir Francis Lovell, J. Lunn, G. Lecesne, W.S. Milne, T. Hood, M. Sandeman, D. Steel, Dr. Sambon, G.D. Warren, Charles and Robert the lab assistants
  • Adder's tongue (Ophioglossum vulgatum L.): fertile stem with description of the plant and its medicinal uses. Coloured line engraving by J. Basire, the younger, c. 1759, after T. Sheldrake.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 28th Session Group Portrait- including Sir Patrick Manson, G.D. Warren, H.R. Dutton, J.G. Copland, H.C. Brown, C.W. Daniels, H.B. Kent, J.W.A. Brown, P. F. Foran, S.F.G. Fox, Revd. T. Gilbert, W. C. Hossock, L.T.R. Hutchinson, A.I. Jackson, K. Jamset, O. Luhn, S.L. MacLaine, J. MacGregor-Smith, S.A. McClintock, W.H. Thresher, J.H. MacDonald, A. Trondle, R.T. Leiper, J.L. Maxwell, C.H. Watson, O. Marriott.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 7th Session group portrait, including Sir Patrick Manson, J.T. Bradley, B.G. Brock, J. Ritchie Brown, C.W. Daniels, D. M. Ford, A.L.N. MacLean, R.N. Moffatt, A. Terzi, Rev. A.P. Tjellstrom, J.P. Tullock, P. Michelli, T.E. Rice, P.T. Manson (different from Sir Patrick Manson), Dr. Sambon, G.D. Warren, Robert (lab assistant.
  • The painters Willem van de Velde the younger and Adriaen van de Velde studying a painting on an easel. Engraving by T.V. Desclaux after J.L. Meissonier.
  • The painters Willem van de Velde the younger and Adriaen van de Velde studying a painting on an easel. Engraving by T.V. Desclaux after J.L. Meissonier.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 62nd session, group portrait- including N. Cheua, A.K. Cosgrove, J.A. Cruickshank, Gray, J., A.L. Gregg, W.P. Hogg, M.K. Abdul Khalik, E.U. MacWilliam, M. Jackson, Dr. G.C. Low, E.G. Mack, Miss Turner, R.T. Leiper, J.S. Maxwell, Dr. Sambon, G.A.S. Madgwick, E.J. Wood, G. Warren, Dr. P. Manson-Bahr.
  • Sir Humphry Davy. Stipple engraving by J. Thomson, 1821, after T. Phillips.
  • A message in orange lettering in French that 'I don't use condoms because I often do the test' and in black lettering 'the test does not prevent AIDS'; one of a series of safe sex posters from a 'Stop AIDS' by the l'Aide Suisse contre le SIDA , in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • A couple kiss on a bed with an open packet and a condom and the message in French "After all, it was a good night. For once I didn't use a condom. It's not going to kill me. You think you have as many lives as on your console game? ; an advertisement for the SIDA Info Service by the CFES and Ministère de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité, Secrétariat d'état à la Santé. Colour lithograph.
  • Me-na-wa, a Creek Indian. Coloured lithograph by J.T. Bowen after C.B. King, 1837.
  • Matthiola incana (L.)W.T.Aiton Brassicaceae Distribution: The genus name commemorates Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500/1–77), physician and botanist, whose name is Latinised to Matthiolus.. Incana means hoary or grey, referring to the colour of the leaves. Mattioli's commentaries on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides were hugely popular. Matthiola incana was first described by Linnaeus as Cheiranthus incanus, being changed to Matthiola by William Aiton, at Kew, in 1812. It is in the cabbage family. Commercial seed packets contain a mixture of single and double forms. The latter are sterile, but selective breeding has increased the proportion of double forms from the seed of single forms to as much as 80%. ‘Ten week stocks’ are popular garden annuals, flowering in the year of sowing, whereas ‘Brompton stocks’ (another variety of M. incana) are biennials, flowering the following year. Gerard (1633), called them Stocke Gillofloure or Leucoium, and notes the white and purple forms, singles and doubles. About their medicinal value he writes ‘not used in Physicke except among certain Empiricks and Quacksalvers, about love and lust matters, which for modestie I omit’. The thought of a member of the cabbage family being an aphrodisiac might encourage the gullible to take more seriously the government’s plea to eat five portions of vegetable/fruit per day. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tshusick, an Ojibwa woman, holding a flower. Coloured lithograph by A. Hoffy after C.B. King, 1837.
  • Atropa belladonna L. Solanaceae. Deadly nightshade. Dwale. Morella, Solatrum, Hound's berries, Uva lupina, Cucubalus, Solanum lethale. Atropa derives from Atropos the oldest of the three Fates of Greek mythology who cut the thread of Life (her sisters Clotho and Lachesis spun and measured the thread, respectively). belladonna, literally, means 'beautiful lady' and was the Italian name for it. Folklore has it that Italian ladies put drops from the plant or the fruits in their eyes to make themselves doe-eyed, myopic and beautiful. However, this is not supported by the 16th and 17th century literature, where no mention is ever made of dilated pupils (or any of the effects of parasympathetic blockade). Tournefort (1719) says 'The Italians named this plant Belladonna, which in their language signifies a beautiful woman, because the ladies use it much in the composition of their Fucus [rouge or deceit or cosmetic] or face paint.' Parkinson says that the Italian ladies use the distilled juice as a fucus '... peradventure [perhaps] to take away their high colour and make them looke paler.' I think it more likely that they absorbed atropine through their skin and were slightly 'stoned' and disinhibited, which made them beautiful ladies in the eyes of Italian males. Distribution: Europe, North Africa, western Asia. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Solanum. Nightshade: very cold and dry, binding … dangerous given inwardly … outwardly it helps the shingles, St Antonie's Fire [erysipelas] and other hot inflammation.' Most of the 16th, 17th and 18th century herbals recommend it topically for breast cancers. Poisonous plants were regarded as 'cold' plants as an excess of them caused death and the body became cold. They were regarded as opposing the hot humour which kept us warm and alive. Poultices of Belladonna leaves are still recommended for muscle strain in cyclists, by herbalists. Gerard (1633) writes that it: 'causeth sleep, troubleth the mind, bringeth madnesse if a few of the berries be inwardly taken, but if more be taken they also kill...'. He was also aware that the alkaloids could be absorbed through the skin for he notes that a poultice of the leaves applied to the forehead, induces sleep, and relieves headache. The whole plant contains the anticholinergic alkaloid atropine, which blocks the peripheral actions of acetylcholine in the parasympathetic nervous system. Atropine is a racemic mixture of d- and l- hyoscyamine. Atropine, dropped into the eyes, blocks the acetylcholine receptors of the pupil so it no longer constricts on exposure to bright light - so enabling an ophthalmologist to examine the retina with an ophthalmoscope. Atropine speeds up the heart rate, reduces salivation and sweating, reduces gut motility, inhibits the vertigo of sea sickness, and is used to block the acetylcholine receptors to prevent the effects of organophosphorous and other nerve gas poisons. It is still has important uses in medicine. Atropine poisoning takes three or for days to wear off, and the hallucinations experienced by its use are described as unpleasant. We have to be content with 'madness', 'frenzie' and 'idle and vain imaginations' in the early herbals to describe the hallucinations of atropine and related alkaloids as the word 'hallucination' in the sense of a perception for which there is no external stimulus, was not used in English until 1646 (Sir T. Browne, 1646). It is a restricted herbal medicine which can only be sold in premises which are registered pharmacies and by or under the supervision of a pharmacist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Annual report for the year 1902 (fifth year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
  • Chiropodologia, or, A scientific enquiry into the causes of corns, warts, onions, and other painful or offensive cutaneous excrescences : with a detail of the most successful methods of removing all deformities of the nails; and of preserving, or restoring, to the feet and hands their natural soundness and beauty. The whole ... systematically confirmed by the practice and experience of D. Low, chiropodist.
  • Chiropodologia, or, A scientific enquiry into the causes of corns, warts, onions, and other painful or offensive cutaneous excrescences : with a detail of the most successful methods of removing all deformities of the nails; and of preserving, or restoring, to the feet and hands their natural soundness and beauty. The whole ... systematically confirmed by the practice and experience of D. Low, chiropodist.
  • Cases in midwifry / Written by the late Mr. William Giffard ... Revis'd and publish'd by Edward Hody, M.D.
  • Practical observations on the use of oxygen, or vital air, in the cure of diseases. To which are added a few experiments on the vegetation of plants. Part I / By D. Hill.
  • A general system of surgery, in three parts, containing the doctrine and management ... / by Dr. Lawrence Heister ... ; translated from the author's last edition, greatly improved.
  • Saint John the Baptist as an infant, sleeping, with a cross in his hand. Engraving by C. Heath after W.M. Craig after A. Carracci (?), 1815.