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  • Title page form Hewson, Experimental inquiries:...the lymphatic system, 1774
  • Thoracic duct of the lymphatic system. Line engraving by J. Wandelaar, 1747.
  • Lymphatics: Four figures showing the lymphatic system in the leg. Line engravings by Campbell, some after W. Hewson, 1816/1821.
  • Vessels and glands of the lymphatic system: seven figures, including a dissected male figure seen from the front, details of the lymphatic system and a table of symbols. Line and stipple engraving after W. Cruikshank and M. Baillie, 1810/1820.
  • Vessels and glands of the lymphatic system: seven figures, including a dissected male figure seen from the front, details of the lymphatic system and a table of symbols. Line and stipple engraving after W. Cruikshank and M. Baillie, 1810/1820.
  • Man, showing lymphatic system, seen from the front. Line engraving by Kirkwood & Sons, after Birnie, 1813.
  • Lymphatics: Five figures showing the lymphatic system in the arm and torso. Line engravings by Campbell, some after W. Hewson, 1816/1821.
  • A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes, proving it to be seated in the lymphatic system / by James Hendy.
  • A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes: proving it to be seated in the lymphatic system / by James Hendy.
  • A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes, proving it to be seated in the lymphatic system / by James Hendy.
  • Vessels and glands of the lymphatic system: male figure seen from the front. Line engraving, by C. Warren after F. Blake, 1790.
  • Organs of the torso seen from the front: portion of torso dissected to reveal internal organs, arteries and lymphatic system in various colours. Coloured line engraving by H. Mutlow, 1808.
  • Experimental inquiries, part the second : containing a description of the lymphatic system in the human subject, and in other animals : illustrated with plates. Together with observations on the lymph, and the changes which it undergoes in some diseases / by William Hewson, F.R.S., and teacher of anatomy.
  • Experimental inquiries, part the second : containing a description of the lymphatic system in the human subject, and in other animals : illustrated with plates. Together with observations on the lymph, and the changes which it undergoes in some diseases / by William Hewson, F.R.S., and teacher of anatomy.
  • Lymphatic, genitourinary and nervous systems. Engraving, 18th century.
  • 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.
  • Experimenta nova anatomica, quibus incognitum hactenus chyli receptaculum, et ab eo per thoracem in ramos usque subclavios vasa lactea deteguntur. Ejusdem dissertatio anatomica, de circulatione sanguinis, et chyli motu / [Jean Pecquet].
  • Ecorché figures showing the nerves: front and back views, with an eyeball. Coloured line engraving by J. Pass after W. Hewson, 1796.
  • P. Mascagni, Vasorum lymphaticorum corporis
  • A system of anatomy / From Monro, Winslow, Innes and the latest authors. Arranged, as nearly as the nature of the work would admit, in the order of the lectures delivered by the professor of anatomy in the University of Edinburgh.
  • Metastatic seminoma of supraclavicular lymph node
  • Rudbeckia cultivar
  • Trichinella spiralis
  • Trichinella spiralis
  • El estímulo que los Ganglios Linfaticos Combinados 'LADA' ejercen en le sistema ganglionar y endocrino es comparable a la energía que genera una dinamo / LADA, Laboratorios Aliados de América, S.A.
  • El estímulo que los Ganglios Linfaticos Combinados 'LADA' ejercen en le sistema ganglionar y endocrino es comparable a la energía que genera una dinamo / LADA, Laboratorios Aliados de América, S.A.