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  • Heritiera fomes: flowering stem with floral segments. Line engraving by Mackenzie, c.1795.
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
  • An unhappy young child hung on a wall by his nurse, who has gone dancing. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier, 1843.
  • A painted AIDS red ribbon advertising an art exhibition "Solidarité - SIDA" in Luxembourg. Colour lithograph, 1998.
  • A sick man lamenting the uselessness of his physicians. Engraving by J.D. Hertz, 17--.