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  • The faculty of physicians and surgeons of Glasgow. Photograph by Barclay Bros., 1901.
  • Memorials of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1599-1850 : with a sketch of the rise and progress of the Glasgow Medical School and of the medical profession in the west of Scotland / [Alexander Duncan].
  • College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Coloured wood engraving.
  • The examination hall of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons: Queen Victoria laying the foundation stone. Wood engraving.
  • Biographical cyclopaedia of homeopathic physicians and surgeons / [Egbert Cleave].
  • The physicians and surgeons of the United States / edited by William B. Atkinson.
  • Buildings and surgeons and physicians of King's College Hospital, London. Coloured lithograph by Beynon & Company after H. Hale.
  • Physicians and surgeons of America (illustrated) : a collection of biographical sketches of the regular medical profession / edited and compiled by Irving A. Watson.
  • Physicians and surgeons of America (illustrated) : a collection of biographical sketches of the regular medical profession / edited and compiled by Irving A. Watson.
  • We, the President and Fellows of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, having duly and deliberately examined ... in the principles and practice of medicine, and in the accessory sciences, and having found him well versed therein, do by these presents, grant him a license to practise in the Faculty of Physic and do hereby certify that he is a physician and licentiate in medicine of said college ... / King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland.
  • Surgeons and physicians of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, with views of the building and adjacent churches. Colour lithograph by Beynon & Company after F. Hager.
  • Surgeons and physicians of Guy's Hospital, Southwark, London, with views of the building. Colour lithograph by M. & N. Hanhart after Beynon & Company.
  • Surgeons and physicians of Guy's Hospital, Southwark, London, with views of the building. Colour lithograph by M. & N. Hanhart after Beynon & Company.
  • Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena: physicians and surgeons treating the sick. Watercolour, 19--, after Domenico di Bartolo, 1441-1442.
  • Contemporary medical men and their professional work : biographies of leading physicians and surgeons, with portraits, from the "Provincial medical journal" / edited and extended by John Leyland.
  • Contemporary medical men and their professional work : biographies of leading physicians and surgeons, with portraits, from the "Provincial medical journal" / edited and extended by John Leyland.
  • Contemporary medical men and their professional work : biographies of leading physicians and surgeons, with portraits, from the "Provincial medical journal" / edited and extended by John Leyland.
  • Contemporary medical men and their professional work : biographies of leading physicians and surgeons, with portraits, from the "Provincial medical journal" / edited and extended by John Leyland.
  • The countries of Europe representing physicians and surgeons trying to regenerate a woman personifying the Dutch republic. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.
  • Medical history of the Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary, from its foundation in 1753 down to the present time : including biographical sketches of the surgeons and physicians who served on its staff / [Lambert Hepenstal Ormsby].
  • The hospital pupil's guide, being oracular communications, addressed to students of the medical profession ... To which is added, an account of the days and hours of attendance of the physicians and surgeons at St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals / By Aesculapius [i.e. L.H. Potts?].
  • King Louis XIV in bed, having been told that the rumour of King William III's death was untrue, is treated by physicians and surgeons representing different nations. Etching by P. Bouttats., c. 1690.
  • King Louis XIV in bed, having been told that the rumour of King William III's death was untrue, is treated by physicians and surgeons representing different nations. Etching by P. Bouttats., c. 1690.
  • King Louis XIV in bed, having been told that the rumour of King William III's death was untrue, is treated by physicians and surgeons representing different nations. Etching by P. Bouttats., c. 1690.
  • Remarks on the impositions of quacks : so much practiced in this Kingdom. Wherein is exposed to the public themeans of distinguishing them from able physicians and surgeons. And how much it is to be wished that the laws would appoint some effectual means to suppress these vile ways of practicing, so prejudicial to his Majesty's subjects / By Vint. B-t.
  • Veronica officinalis L. Scrophulariaceae Speedwell. Distribution: Europe. Gerard (1633) calls this the female Fluellen, or Speedwell and Elantine. Pena and Lobel (1570/1) report how a barber cured a man whose nose was being eroded off by giving him Elatine (sic) to drink and by applying a poultice of the crushed herb to the sore - after learned physicians and surgeons had said the only remedy was to cut the nose off. Gerard lists several Veronica
  • Tanacetum cinerariifolium Sch.Blp. Asteraceae Dalmation chrysanthemum, Pyrethrum, Pellitory, Tansy. Distribution: Balkans. Source of the insecticides called pyrethrins. The Physicians of Myddfai in the 13th century used it for toothache. Gerard called it Pyrethrum officinare, Pellitorie of Spain but mentions no insecticidal use, mostly for 'palsies', agues, epilepsy, headaches, to induce salivation, and applied to the skin, to induce sweating. He advised surgeons to use it to make a cream against the Morbum Neopolitanum [syphilis]. However he also describes Tanacetum or Tansy quite separately.. Quincy (1718) gave the same uses
  • Anatomical figures (top); a physician takes the pulse of a sick man while the next two generations attend (bottom left); surgeons perform operations on a child and a woman. Etching by D. Berger, 1774, after D. Chodowiecki.
  • 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.