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  • Lobelia cardinalis L Campanulaceae Cardinal lobelia Distribution: Americas, Colombia to south-eastern Canada. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. It was introduced from Virginia to John Parkinson in England by John Newton (1580-1647) a surgeon of Colyton (aka Colliton), Devon, who travelled to Virginia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The geology of the South-East of England / By Gideon Mantell.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams: north east view. Photograph, 1901.
  • Saltare from the North East of England. Built for the manufacture of Alpaca and Mohair. Opened by Titus Salt in 1853. Planned with admirable arrangement for ensuring the health and comfort of the workpeople, and preventing accidents from the shafting and gearing.
  • The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation. Made by sea or ouerland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres / diuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries &c. of the English toward the north and northeast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. VVhereunto is annexed a briefe commentary of the true state of Island, and of the northren seas and lands situate that way; as also the memorable defeat of the Spanish huge Armada, Anno 1588. The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation made by sea or ouer-land, to the south and south-east ... By Richard Hakluyt, preacher, and sometime Student of Christ-Church in Oxford.
  • Planning an accessible journey with Southeastern : station access guide / Southeastern.
  • Planning an accessible journey with Southeastern : station access guide / Southeastern.
  • Eastern-Dispensary for Relief of the Poor : Great Alie Street, 179 : having been received as a patient under the care of.
  • Eastern-Dispensary for Relief of the Poor : Great Alie Street, 179 : having been received as a patient under the care of.
  • Hunkarim : cafe, bar, restaurant : serving a mixture of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dishes : take away & delivery menu.
  • Hunkarim : cafe, bar, restaurant : serving a mixture of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dishes : take away & delivery menu.
  • Hunkarim : cafe, bar, restaurant : serving a mixture of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dishes : take away & delivery menu.
  • Hunkarim : cafe, bar, restaurant : serving a mixture of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dishes : take away & delivery menu.
  • Hunkarim : cafe, bar, restaurant : serving a mixture of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dishes : take away & delivery menu.
  • Annual report for the year 1902 (fifth year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
  • The Roman bath and the abbey at Bath, England; advertising British spas. Colour lithograph, 193-.
  • The coffin of W.E. Gladstone lying in state in Westminster Hall, attended by five men praying. Drawing by G.B. Scott after A. Kemp Tebby, 1898.
  • The north east view of Angengo Fort on the coast of Malabar.
  • Report on the physical welfare of mothers and children.
  • Report on the physical welfare of mothers and children.
  • Report on the physical welfare of mothers and children.
  • Sarah Biffin, a limbless artist. Lithograph by H. Grévedon after S. Biffin.
  • Sarah Biffin, a limbless artist. Lithograph by R. T. Stothard after S. Biffin.
  • Sarah Biffin. Watercolour by Sarah Biffin, 1812.
  • Sarah Biffin, a limbless painter. Engraving by R.W. Sievier, 1821, after Sarah Biffin.
  • 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.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
  • Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.