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  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • Personifications of medicine, pharmacy and surgery. Oil painting after (?) Nicolas de Larmessin.
  • Hedge hyssop (Gratiola officinalis L.): entire flowering plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
  • A plant (Caladium bicolour (Aiton) Vent.): 3 large stalked leaves and numbered inflorescences - both sheathed and unsheathed. Chromolithograph by P. Depannemaeker, c. 1885, after B. Hoola van Nooten.
  • Top, muscles of the shoulder; bottom, the plant Garcinia gummi-gutta. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.
  • A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph after E.J. Pigal.
  • Niepa Bark Tree (Quassia indica (Gaertner) Nooteb.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate sections of flowers, fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Physocarpus opulifolius (L.)Maxim. Roasaceae Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) reported it was used for gynaecological problems by the Iroquois and Menomini
  • Physocarpus opulifolius (L.)Maxim. Roasaceae Distribution: North America. Austin () reported it was used for gynaecological problems by the Iroquois and Menomini
  • Euphorbia nicaeensis All. Euphorbiaceae. Distribution: North Africa, Southern Europe to Turkey. Root extracts have been shown to have cytotoxic and anti-inflammatory action in experimental situations. Euphorbia species all have toxic sap, and had many names in early literature, eg esula, about which Culpeper (1650) says that '(taken inwardly) are too violent for vulgar use
  • Menyanthes trifoliata (Bogbean)
  • Ralph Allen making a speech to the Corporation of Bath. Etching by W. Hibbart, 1763.
  • Ralph Allen making a speech to the Corporation of Bath. Etching by W. Hibbart, 1763.
  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
  • Marijuana: Blue cheese strain
  • Chinese woodcut: Pathology of 'entwining throat wind'
  • Veronicastrum virginicum 'Pink Glow'
  • Veronicastrum virginicum 'Pink Glow'
  • Chinese woodcut: Pathology of 'obstructive throat wind'