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  • An inquiry into certain errors relative to insanity; and their consequences: physical, moral, and civil / By George Man Burrows.
  • A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
  • A dying unscrupulous medical practitioner confesses the errors of his ways to a nurse. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
  • Mr. Lambkin in an old bachelors' club, completely recovered from his illness and contemplating the errors of his ways. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • An historical sketch of medicine and surgery, from their origin to the present time and of the principal authors, discoveries, improvements, imperfections and errors / by W. Black.
  • Oriatrike or, physick refined. The common errors therein refuted, and the whole art reformed and rectified: being a new rise and progress of phylosophy and medicine, for the destruction of diseases and prolongation of life / written by ... John Baptista Van Helmont ...; now faithfully rendered into English ... by J[ohn] C[handler]. Sometime of M.H. Oxon.
  • The private medical friend, or, A warning voice to young men : an essay on the errors of youth and the secret infirmities of the generative organs, resulting from solitary habits, youthful excess, or infection, with practical observations on the premature failiure of sexual power illustrated with many cases in proof of the Author's succesful mode of treatment / by Henry Smith.
  • Matæotechnia medicinæ praxeos. : The vanity of the craft of physick. Or, a new dispensatory: wherein is dissected the errors, ignorance, impostures and supinities of the schools, in their main pillars of purges, blood-letting, fontanels or issues, and diet, &c. and the particular medicines of the shops. With an humble motion for the reformation of the universities, and the whole landscap of physick, and discovering the terra incognita of chymistrie. To the parliament of England. / By Noah Biggs, chymiatrophilos.
  • Medicina flagellata: or, the doctor scarify'd. Laying open the vices of the Faculty, the insignificancy of a great part of their materia medica; with certain rules to discern the true physician from the emperick, and the useful medicine from the noxious and trading physick. With an essay on health, or the power of a regimen. To which is added, a discovery of some remarkable errors in the late writings on the plague / by Dr. Mead, Quincey, Bradley, etc. With some useful and necessary rules to be observed in the time of that contagious distemper.
  • Medicina flagellata: or, the doctor scarify'd. Laying open the vices of the Faculty, the insignificancy of a great part of their materia medica; with certain rules to discern the true physician from the emperick, and the useful medicine from the noxious and trading physick. With an essay on health, or the power of a regimen. To which is added, a discovery of some remarkable errors in the late writings on the plague / by Dr. Mead, Quincey, Bradley, etc. With some useful and necessary rules to be observed in the time of that contagious distemper.
  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.
  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.
  • An invalid in bed groaning at his servant's grammatical error. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
  • A physician rushes into an operating theatre, exclaiming that there has been an error in diagnosis; unfortunately, the patient is already lying there, opened up. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • De plantis Aegypti liber. In qvo non pavci, qvi circa herbarum materiam irrepserunt, errores, deprehenduntur, quorum causa hactenus multa medicamenta ad vsum medicine admodum expetenda, plerisque medicorum, non sine artis iactura, occulta, atque obsoleta iacuerunt ... / Accessit etiam liber de balsamo, aliàs editus. Prosperi Alpini.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Agrimonia eupatoria L. Agrimony, Eupatorium, Maudlein. Perennial herb. The species name comes from king Mithridates Eupator VI of Pontus (132-63 BC) who took regular doses of poison to develop an immunity to them. A 'Mithridate' was a medicine against poisons. Distribution: N. and S. Africa, N. Asia, Europe. '…provokes urine and the terms [periods], dries the brain, opens stoppings, helps the green sickness [iron deficiency anaemia], and profits such as have a cold weak liver outwardly applied it takes away the hardness of the matrix [=uterus] and fills hollow ulcers with flesh' (Culpeper, 1650). Dioscorides (Beck, 2005) recommends mashed leaves in hog's grease for healing scarring ulcers, and the seed in wine for dysentery and serpent bites. Goodyear's 1655 translation of Dioscorides (Gunther 2000) has this as cannabis, which Parkinson (1640) says is in error and summarises the manifold uses from classical authors, from removing splinters to stopping menorrhagia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Eranthis hyemalis Salisb. Ranunculaceae Winter Aconite Distribution: Europe. The reason it was called Winter aconite and linked to Aconitum napellus as being just as poisonous is because plants were classified according to leaf shape in the 16th century. L'Obel's Stirpium adversaria nova (1571) and Plantarum seu stirpium historia (1576) (with a full page illustration on page 384 showing Eranthis and Aconitum together) along with the knowledge that related plants have similar medical properties caused the belief that Eranthis are as poisonous as Aconitum. They are both in Ranunculaceae and while Eranthis (like all Ranunculaceae)is toxic if eaten, it does not contain the same chemicals as Aconitum. Caesalpino (Ekphrasis, 1616) pointed out the error in classifying according to leaf shape and recommended flower shape. It contains pharmacologically interesting chemicals such as khellin, also present in Ammi visnaga. This is a vasodilator but quite toxic, but can be converted into khellin analogues such as sodium cromoglicate – used as a prophylaxis against asthma attacks – and amiodarone which has anti-arrhythmia actions so is used for atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias. It is endangered and protected in the wild (Croatia) because of over-collecting for horticulture. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Eranthis hyemalis Salisb. Ranunculaceae Winter Aconite Distribution: Europe. The reason it was called Winter aconite and linked to Aconitum napellus as being just as poisonous is because plants were classified according to leaf shape in the 16th century. L'Obel's 'Stirpium adversaria nova' published in 1571 and 'Plantarum seu stirpium historia' published 1576 (with a full page illustration on page 384 showing Eranthis and Aconitum together) along with the knowledge that related plants have similar medical properties caused the belief that Eranthis are as poisonous as Aconitum. They are both in Ranunculaceae and while Eranthis (like all Ranunculaceae) is toxic if eaten, it does not contain the same chemicals as Aconitum. Caesalpino (Ekphrasis, 1616) pointed out the error in classifying according to leaf shape and recommended flower shape. It contains pharmacologically interesting chemicals such as khellin, also present in Ammi visnaga. This is a vasodilator but quite toxic, which can be converted into khellin analogues such as sodium cromoglicate – used as a prophylaxis against asthma attacks – and amiodarone which has anti-arrhythmia actions so is used for atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias. It is endangered and protected in the wild (Croatia) because of over-collecting for horticulture. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A solicitor and a barrister throw black paint or tar at a woman sitting at the feet of a statue of Justice. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1892.