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  • Deciduous teeth with developing permanent teeth
  • South African fruit : Summer fruits for Winter health / South African Deciduous Fruit Advertising Committee.
  • South African fruit : Summer fruits for Winter health / South African Deciduous Fruit Advertising Committee.
  • South African fruit : Summer fruits for Winter health / South African Deciduous Fruit Advertising Committee.
  • South African fruit : Summer fruits for Winter health / South African Deciduous Fruit Advertising Committee.
  • Vaccinium corymbosum L. Ericaceae Bilberry. Deciduous shrub. Distribution: North America. The berries are eaten and rich in Vitamin C. Native Americans used them as a dressing on acute erysipelas (Milspaugh, 1974). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Vaccinium corymbosum L. Ericaceae Bilberry. Deciduous shrub. Distribution: North America. The berries are eaten and rich in Vitamin C. Native Americans used them as a dressing on acute erysipelas (Milspaugh, 1974). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Hypericum olympicum L. Clusiaceae. Mount Olympus St John's wort. Deciduous perennial herb. Distribution Greece, Asia minor. This is not the plant used for mood disturbances in herbal medicine which is Hypericum perforatum. However, all the 370 species of Hypericum are called 'St John's Wort' so a potential for confusion exists. It shares some of the chemicals thought to be active in Hypericum perforatum. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Plate 10. The developmental changes in human teeth with age. Several temporary (deciduous) canine teeth (Fig. 1), temporary molars (Fig. 2), the formation of permanent teeth (Figs. 3 and 4), changes that take place during different periods of growth (Fig. 5), cross-section of a jaw of a six-year-old child (A) and an eight to nine-year-old child (B), the appearance of the canine and second permanent molars (C), part of an adult jaw (D), the upper jaw of a foetus (Fig. 6).
  • Drupaceous fruit from Cotinus coggygria (smoke bush), SEM
  • 'Ovaltine' rusks for infants, growing children & adults / A. Wander Ltd.
  • 'Ovaltine' rusks for infants, growing children & adults / A. Wander Ltd.
  • Diagrams of incisors, canines and molars, a diseased tooth and the jaw of a six year old showing the adult teeth about to erupt below the milk teeth. Coloured engraving by A. Tardieu(?).
  • A toddler and his teddy bear in a high chair on which are placed a carrot and an apple; representing dental hygiene. Colour lithograph after Tllley, 1965.
  • Autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata) fruit
  • A happy baby, advertising Fenning's Children's Powder. Colour lithograph.
  • Cell walls in a Quercus (oak) stem, LM
  • A happy baby, advertising Fenning's Children's Powder. Colour lithograph.
  • Vignettes showing the properties and use of Taetz capsules. Lithograph, ca. 1910.
  • HYDRANGEA ARBORESCENS (WILD HYDRANGEA)
  • Betula pendula (Silver birch)
  • Rhamnus frangula 'Asplenifolia'
  • Ming herbal (painting): Kucao (bitter herb)
  • Callicarpa bodinieri var giraldii 'Profusion'