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  • Song-sheet cover: 'Medicine Jack'.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • Medicine Jack : serio comic song / written & composed by Alfred Scott Gatty.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor known as Medicine Jack carrying his wares in a knapsack on his back. Coloured lithograph.
  • Captain Jack or Grizzly Bear Paw, medicine man of Kisbyyoks (Kispiox), British Columbia. Pastel by W. Langdon Kihn, 1924.
  • Captain Jack or Grizzly Bear Paw, medicine man of Kisbyyoks (Kispiox), British Columbia. Pastel by W. Langdon Kihn, 1924.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae. Goatsbeard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae Goats beard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae. Goatsbeard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Three episodes about Mr. Randle looking after Mr. Muff's surgery while he was away in London at Mr. Rapp's party. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • A woman personifying France (?) rescuing a baby from the tentacles of an octopus representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, ca. 1922.
  • A fire-eater kindling fire in his lungs with the remedy Thermogène. Colour lithograph by Leonetto Cappiello, 1909.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.