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  • Crystals of benzimidazole. Benzimidazole is used as a fungicide in agriculture and to treat worms in human and veterinary medicine.
  • A devil (in human guise) deceiving and tricking an itinerant medicine vendor who proclaims to cure all ailments. Line engraving by S. Nicholls.
  • A monkey, dressed in human clothing and holding up a medicinal remedy: representing quacks or itinerant medicine vendors. Lithograph by W. Nichol after J. Watteau.
  • Systematized anatomy, or Human organography : in synoptical tables, with numerous plates. For the use of universities, faculties and schools of medicine and surgery, academies of painting, sculpture, and the Royal Colleges / By J. Sarlandière ; translated from the French by W.C. Roberts.
  • Systematized anatomy, or Human organography : in synoptical tables, with numerous plates. For the use of universities, faculties and schools of medicine and surgery, academies of painting, sculpture, and the Royal Colleges / By J. Sarlandière ; translated from the French by W.C. Roberts.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Veratrum nigrum L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and, when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying-in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum - and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Veratrum album L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum -and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Rudbeckia triloba L. Asteraceae Orange Cone flower. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: North America. It is named for Olof Rudbeck, father (1630–1702) and son (1660–1740). Olof Rudbeck the Elder was professor of medicine at Uppsala University, and established a botanic garden there. He was the discoverer of the human lymphatic system. His son succeeded his father as professor of medicine, and one of his students was Carl Linnaeus (1707–88) who named the genus Rudbeckia after him and his father. It is a plant which is poisonous to cattle, sheep and pigs with no medicinal uses. Austin (1974) discusses R. hirta, also regarded as a toxic plant. It was used externally by the Cherokee to bathe sores and snakebites and made into a tea for treating diarrhoea. The Seminoles used it for headaches and fever and the Miccosukee for sunstroke and headache. The Cherokee and the Iroquois used it to treat intestinal worms Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Five dogs undergoing experiments on gastric secretion in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • Ten members of staff studying and performing experiments on dogs in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • Pavlov's office in the Physiology department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, an exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies. Shewing the signs, causes and cures of most distempers incident thereunto ... As also a treatise of the scurvy. And the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes and cure ... / [Thomas Willis].
  • The chemical room in the Physiology Department at the Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • Seven members of staff in the pre-operative room in the physiology department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • The corridor with washbasins in the special clinic for animals in the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.