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  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 62nd session, group portrait- including N. Cheua, A.K. Cosgrove, J.A. Cruickshank, Gray, J., A.L. Gregg, W.P. Hogg, M.K. Abdul Khalik, E.U. MacWilliam, M. Jackson, Dr. G.C. Low, E.G. Mack, Miss Turner, R.T. Leiper, J.S. Maxwell, Dr. Sambon, G.A.S. Madgwick, E.J. Wood, G. Warren, Dr. P. Manson-Bahr.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 7th Session group portrait, including Sir Patrick Manson, J.T. Bradley, B.G. Brock, J. Ritchie Brown, C.W. Daniels, D. M. Ford, A.L.N. MacLean, R.N. Moffatt, A. Terzi, Rev. A.P. Tjellstrom, J.P. Tullock, P. Michelli, T.E. Rice, P.T. Manson (different from Sir Patrick Manson), Dr. Sambon, G.D. Warren, Robert (lab assistant.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine (10th Session) group portrait including Sir Patric Manson, M.C. Blair, R.F. de Boissiere, C.W. Daniels, A.H. Davies, J.T. Hancock O. Galgey, and E. Da Cunha, G. Hungerford, Sir Francis Lovell, J. Lunn, G. Lecesne, W.S. Milne, T. Hood, M. Sandeman, D. Steel, Dr. Sambon, G.D. Warren, Charles and Robert the lab assistants
  • London School of Tropical Medicine 13th sessionGroup Portrait- including Sir Patrick Manson, Dr. Sambon, G.D. Warren, H.F. Conyngham, Dr. Crombie, M. F. Ellis, L. Clifford, W.F. Holmes, A.D. Humphry, Dr. G.C. Low , G. Loader, J.E. Mitchell, J.F.G. Mayer, Dr. Ross, D. Steel, P. Rees, E.H. Read, G.R. Ruata, Major Wilson, W.J. Radford, G. Warren, and Robert (lab assistant).
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 24th Session Group portrait- including Sir Patrick Manson, G.D. Warren, T.R. Beale Browne, C.W. Daniels, R.W. Burkitt, J. F. Fitzmaurice, D. Ross Kilpatrick, J. C. C. Ford, A. F. Forster, Q. B. de Freitas, C.A. Godson, F. Grenier, S. Gurney, G. Hamilton, Prof. Holst, Capt. F.H.G. Hutchinson, K. McMurtrie, Miss G. Mackinnon, W.F. Todd, C. Frimodt Moller, Miss C. Wilson, Miss A. Madsen, Capt. J.N. Walker, J. Phillip Ziervogel.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 28th Session Group Portrait- including Sir Patrick Manson, G.D. Warren, H.R. Dutton, J.G. Copland, H.C. Brown, C.W. Daniels, H.B. Kent, J.W.A. Brown, P. F. Foran, S.F.G. Fox, Revd. T. Gilbert, W. C. Hossock, L.T.R. Hutchinson, A.I. Jackson, K. Jamset, O. Luhn, S.L. MacLaine, J. MacGregor-Smith, S.A. McClintock, W.H. Thresher, J.H. MacDonald, A. Trondle, R.T. Leiper, J.L. Maxwell, C.H. Watson, O. Marriott.
  • Aconitum carmichaelii Debeaux. Ranunculaceae. Chinese aconite, Chinese wolfsbane, Carmichael's monkshood. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution C. to W. China to N. America. Named for Dr J.R. Carmichael (d. 1877), English physician, plant collector and Protestant missionary from 1862-1877 in Guangdong and Shandong, China initially in Canton. He aided Francis Forbes to collect plants for Kew. Aconitum plants are so poisonous that Theophrastus states that death was the punishment for possessing them. Aconitine is the poison and was used - from Aconitum ferox - in the 'curry murder' in London in 2009. It causes respiratory paralysis, bradycardia (slowing of the pulse), cardiac arrhythmias, tingling, sweating, gastric cramps, diarrhoea and death, both by ingestion and by absorption through the mucous membranes and the skin. Despite this it is widely used in Chinese herbal medicine. It is a restricted herbal medicine which can only be dispensed by a herbal practitioner for external use following a one-to-one consultation, or by prescription from a registered doctor or dentist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Osmanthus delavayi Franch. Oleaceae Evergreen shrub. Distribution: China. Osmanthus is derived from the Greek for 'fragrant flower', delavayi from its discoverer, the French Missionary with the Missions Étrangères, and plant collector, Pierre Delavay (1834-1895). He sent 200,000 herbarium specimens containing 4000 species including 1,500 new species to Franchet at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. He sent seed of O. delavayi to France (1886), but only one germinated, and all the plants in cultivation until it was recollected 40 years later, arose from this plant (Bretschneider, 1896). The flowers are used to make a tea in China, but the berries (drupes) are not regarded as edible. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Salvia coahuilensis Fernald Lamiaceae Coahuila Sage. Perennial shrub. Distribution: Mexico. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Its health giving properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Salvia nemorosa L. Lamiaceae Woodland sage. Balkan clary Distribution: Central Europe, Western Asia. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Linnaeus (1782) also: 'Timor, Languor, Leucorrhoea, Senectus [fear, tiredness, white vaginal discharge, old age]'. Its health giving and immortality conferring properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Researches in Polynesia and Melanesia : an account of investigations in Samoa, Tonga, the Ellice group, and the New Hebrides,in 1924, 1925. Parts V-VII, Relating to human diseases and welfare / by Patrick A. Buxton.
  • Researches in Polynesia and Melanesia : an account of investigations in Samoa, Tonga, the Ellice group, and the New Hebrides,in 1924, 1925. Parts V-VII, Relating to human diseases and welfare / by Patrick A. Buxton.
  • Handling, maintenance and storage of ophthalmic surgical instruments in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the International Centre for Eye Health, ca. 2000.
  • The London (later Royal) Homœopathic Hospital, corner of Queen Square and Great Ormond Street, London: exterior. Photograph.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • Mosquito breeding ground in a hole in a tree trunk: museum exhibit. Photograph, 1900/1930.
  • A laboratory, possibly at the Hahnemann Hospital and Homœopathic Dispensaries, Liverpool. Photograph.
  • Medical Women's Federation.
  • Action Against AIDS : in support of the Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • [Leaflet about Rudolf Steiner, anthroposophical medicine, Weleda natural medicines, special education, biodynamic agriculture].
  • [Leaflet about Rudolf Steiner, anthroposophical medicine, Weleda natural medicines, special education, biodynamic agriculture].
  • [Leaflet about Rudolf Steiner, anthroposophical medicine, Weleda natural medicines, special education, biodynamic agriculture].
  • [Leaflet about Rudolf Steiner, anthroposophical medicine, Weleda natural medicines, special education, biodynamic agriculture].
  • [Leaflet about Rudolf Steiner, anthroposophical medicine, Weleda natural medicines, special education, biodynamic agriculture].
  • [Leaflet about Rudolf Steiner, anthroposophical medicine, Weleda natural medicines, special education, biodynamic agriculture].