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  • Hospital for small-pox sufferers. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Path leading into Yonnibana. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Men in Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a device for removing rubbish, which they balance on their heads. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Senior Medical Officers' quarters in Bathurst, Gambia. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • The Middlesex Hospital, engraving 1897
  • Heuchera 'Silver Scrolls'
  • The Chelsea College: aerial view from the north with boats on the river. Engraving by I. Barlow, 1805.
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half
  • Westringia fruticosa 'Variegata'
  • Tradescantia 'Concorde Grape'
  • Tradescantia 'Concorde Grape'
  • Lamium maculatum 'Beacon Silver'
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • Rhododendron yakushuminum 'Grumpy'
  • Rhododendron yakushimanum 'Grumpy'
  • Carthamus tinctorius L. Asteraceae. Safe Flower, False Saffron - Distribution: W. Asia. Dioscorides (in Beck, 2003) notes the seeds as a purgative, but also advises it made up with 30 figs, which must have helped. Gerard (1640) calls it Atractylis flore luteo the yellow distaffe thistle. and follows Dioscorides in its uses, but does get the reader confused with Cnicus benedictus, calling both plants 'wild bastard saffron'. Culpeper makes no mention of it in his early works, but later (1826) have the following: ‘Wild Saffon, or Saf-flower ... accounted a pretty strong cathartic [causing diarrhoea and vomiting], evacuating tough viscid phlegm, both upwards and downwards, and by that means is said to clear the lungs, and help the phthisic [now equated with tuberculosis]. It is likewise serviceable against the jaundice
  • Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii