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  • Philadelphia International Exposition, 1876: American Civil War medicine wagon produced by T. Morris Perot and Company. Photograph, 1876.
  • Philadelphia International Exposition, 1876: American Civil War medicine wagon produced by T. Morris Perot and Company. Photograph, 1876.
  • International Congress for the History of Medicine (VI), Leiden, 1927: delegates at the opening of the Congress. Photograph, 1927.
  • International Congress for the History of Medicine (VI), Leiden, 1927: delegates at the opening of the Congress. Photograph, 1927.
  • The IV International Congresses on Tropical Medicine and Malaria: banquet at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington D.C. Photograph, 1948.
  • Philadelphia International Exposition, 1876: American Civil War medicine wagon produced by T. Morris Perot and Company: side view. Photograph, 1876.
  • Bazilica chymica, et praxis chymiatricæ, or Royal and practical chymistry in three treatises. Wherein all those excellent medicines and chymical preparations are fully discovered, from whence our modern chymists have drawn their choicest remedies / Being a translation of Oswald Crollius his Royal chymistry, augmented and inl. by John Hartman. To which is added his Treatise of signatures of internal things. Or, A true and lively anatomy of the greater and lesser world. As also the Practice of chymistry of John Hartman, M.D., augmented and inlarged by his son [G.E. Hartmann]. All faithfully Englished by a lover of chymistry.
  • Bazilica chymica, et praxis chymiatricæ, or Royal and practical chymistry in three treatises. Wherein all those excellent medicines and chymical preparations are fully discovered, from whence our modern chymists have drawn their choicest remedies / Being a translation of Oswald Crollius his Royal chymistry, augmented and inl. by John Hartman. To which is added his Treatise of signatures of internal things. Or, A true and lively anatomy of the greater and lesser world. As also the Practice of chymistry of John Hartman, M.D., augmented and inlarged by his son [G.E. Hartmann]. All faithfully Englished by a lover of chymistry.
  • Presentation luncheon to Col. Sir William Smith, M.D. at Apothecaries Hall on Wednesday 12th June 1929 / Fifth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy.
  • Presentation luncheon to Col. Sir William Smith, M.D. at Apothecaries Hall on Wednesday 12th June 1929 / Fifth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy.
  • Presentation luncheon to Col. Sir William Smith, M.D. at Apothecaries Hall on Wednesday 12th June 1929 / Fifth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy.
  • Plan shewing arangement of tables on the occasion of the reception and banquet to the Fifth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy, Friday, 10th May, 1929.
  • The history of inoculation and vaccination for the prevention and treatment of disease : lecture memoranda / XVIIth International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913.
  • The history of inoculation and vaccination for the prevention and treatment of disease : lecture memoranda / XVIIth International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913.
  • The history of inoculation and vaccination for the prevention and treatment of disease : lecture memoranda / XVIIth International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913.
  • William Henry Welch, Sir D'Arcy Power and Professor (Heinrich?) Sieveking at the 6th International Congress of the History of Medicine. Photograph, 1927.
  • International Congress of Medicine (17th), London, 1913: Henry O. Feiss, orthopaedist, included in group portrait of eight men and one woman. Photograph, ca. 1913.
  • October 29 - November 1, 1990, Montreux, Switzerland : First announcement : Assessing AIDS prevention : international conference / Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne.
  • October 29 - November 1, 1990, Montreux, Switzerland : First announcement : Assessing AIDS prevention : international conference / Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne.
  • October 29 - November 1, 1990, Montreux, Switzerland : First announcement : Assessing AIDS prevention : international conference / Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne.
  • October 29 - November 1, 1990, Montreux, Switzerland : First announcement : Assessing AIDS prevention : international conference / Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne.
  • October 29 - November 1, 1990, Montreux, Switzerland : First announcement : Assessing AIDS prevention : international conference / Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne.
  • October 29 - November 1, 1990, Montreux, Switzerland : First announcement : Assessing AIDS prevention : international conference : abstract submission deadline June 15, 1990, registration deadline September 30, 1990 / Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne.
  • October 29 - November 1, 1990, Montreux, Switzerland : First announcement : Assessing AIDS prevention : international conference : abstract submission deadline June 15, 1990, registration deadline September 30, 1990 / Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne.
  • October 29 - November 1, 1990, Montreux, Switzerland : First announcement : Assessing AIDS prevention : international conference : abstract submission deadline June 15, 1990, registration deadline September 30, 1990 / Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne.
  • October 29 - November 1, 1990, Montreux, Switzerland : First announcement : Assessing AIDS prevention : international conference : abstract submission deadline June 15, 1990, registration deadline September 30, 1990 / Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne.
  • October 29 - November 1, 1990, Montreux, Switzerland : First announcement : Assessing AIDS prevention : international conference : abstract submission deadline June 15, 1990, registration deadline September 30, 1990 / Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne.
  • October 29 - November 1, 1990, Montreux, Switzerland : First announcement : Assessing AIDS prevention : international conference : abstract submission deadline June 15, 1990, registration deadline September 30, 1990 / Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne.
  • Tussilago farfara L. Asteraceae. Coltsfoot. Distribution: Europe, N. Africa, W & N Asia . Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘Tussilago. Coltsfoot. ... they are admirable good for coughs and consumptions of the lungs, shortness of breath etc. It is often used and with great success taken in a tobacco pipe, being cut and mixed with a little oil of Annis seeds.’ It is hepatotoxic genotoxic and carcinogenic due to the pyrrolizidine alkaloids that it contains. It should not be taken internally (Medicines Control Agency, 2002). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Senna corymbosa (Lam.)H.S.Irwin&Barneby Caesalpinaceae. Argentine Senna. Distribution: Argentine (other species from Europe). This beautiful shrub that flowers from midsummer until the frosts of winter, is the source of one of the best known of all herbal medicines – Senokot (and senna pods and senna tea), introduced to European medicine (as Senna alexandrina from Egypt) by the Arabians. Every part of the plant contains anthraquinones which, if taken internally, act as a powerful laxative to treat constipation by stimulating the nerve cells of the large bowel. Gerard (1633) notes ‘it is a singular purging medicine’ with over a page on its uses. When used regularly the nerves to the large bowel may be destroyed, leaving a permanently dilated large bowel that never functions properly again. This is a plant which causes the condition it treats to become permanent. Additionally, with prolonged use, the lining of the bowel turns black, serum potassium levels may fall, resulting in cardiac irregularities and sometimes death. Coma, neuropathy and hepatitis have also been reported. It is advertised on television (the actor involved is seen to be depressed and bloated until she takes Senokot, after which she is happy - Hippocrates would have attributed this antidepressant effect to the plant's ability to purge her of the black melancholic humour present in her bowel motions). It is available without prescription or health warning against long-term use. What do you think? Lyte (1578) recommends it strongly for depression, but one might claim to be cured rather than take it again. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.