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  • Bust of Homer.
  • Homer; Thomas Hobbes; and warriors from Greece and Troy; representing Hobbes's translation of the works of Homer. Line engraving, 1677.
  • A bust reputed to be of Homer. Drawing, c. 1791.
  • Denis Pétau, seated at a desk in a vast library, writing his historical and chronological works; medallions of Solon, Hippocrates, Cicero and Homer above. Engraving, 1724.
  • Allium moly L., Alliaceae. Golden garlic. Bulbous herb. Distribution: Southwest Europe and Northwest Africa. This is not the 'moly' of Homer's Odyssey Book 10 lines 302-6 which describes Mercury giving Ulysses 'Moly', the antidote to protect himself against Circe's poison ''... The root was black, while the flower was as white as milk
  • État de la médecine entre Homère & Hippocrate : anatomie, physiologie, pathologie, médecine militaire, histoire des écoles médicales pour faire suite à La médecine dans Homère / par Ch. Daremberg.
  • T. Bartholin, Capsulae atrabilariae hom....
  • Statuette of Aesculapius excavated at Homs.
  • Homs, Syria: a monument identified as the cenotaph of Gaius Caesar, with a caravan resting. Engraving by P.C. Baquoy after L.F. Cassas.
  • Homs, Syria: the citadel and part of the old city, with the artist Louis-François Cassas surrounded by Syrians. Engraving by S.C. Miger after L.F. Cassas.
  • Beecham's music portfolio. No. 25, Home sweet home!.
  • Beecham's music portfolio. No. 25, Home sweet home!.
  • Beecham's music portfolio. No. 25, Home sweet home!.
  • Beecham's music portfolio. No. 25, Home sweet home!.
  • Queen's District Training Home, Essex County Training Home, Leytonstone: nurses standing outside the home. Photograph by Chas. E. Webber, ca. 1900 (?).
  • Francis Home, Clinical Experiments
  • Francis Home, Clinical Experiments
  • Christmas home baking / Tesco.
  • Christmas home baking / Tesco.
  • Prudhoe memorial convalescent home, Northumberland
  • The home of good health.
  • The home of good health.
  • The home of good health.
  • Home of Professor William Dick
  • The home of good health.
  • The home of good health.
  • Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Mr. Charles Du-Val at home.
  • Veterinary surgeon on a home visit