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  • The anatomy of the brain. Containing its mechanism and physiology; together with some new discoveries and corrections of ancient and modern authors upon that subject to which is annex'd a particular account of animal functions and muscular motion ... / [Humphrey Ridley].
  • The anatomy of the brain. Containing its mechanism and physiology; together with some new discoveries and corrections of ancient and modern authors upon that subject to which is annex'd a particular account of animal functions and muscular motion ... / [Humphrey Ridley].
  • An introduction to natural philosophy. Or, Philosophical lectures read in the University of Oxford anno Dom. 1700. To which are added the demonstrations of Monsieur Huygens's Theorems, concerning the centrifugal force and circular motion / By John Keill ... Translated from the last edition of the Latin.
  • Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in [the] humane body as they arise in dissection. Distributed into six lectures ... Together with a philosophical and mathematical account of the mechanism of muscular motion, and an accurate ... discourse of the heart and its use, with the circulation of the blood, &c. ... / by R. Lower.
  • Myographia nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in [the] humane body as they arise in dissection. Distributed into six lectures ... Together with a philosophical and mathematical account of the mechanism of muscular motion, and an accurate ... discourse of the heart and its use, with the circulation of the blood, &c. ... / by R. Lower.
  • The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick and physician to the Kings Majesty, concerning the motion of the heart and blood / With the preface of Zachariah Wood, physician of Roterdam. To which is added Dr. James de Back his Discourse of the heart. Physician in ordinary to the town of Roterdam. [And] Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. The author, William Harvey.
  • The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick and physician to the Kings Majesty, concerning the motion of the heart and blood / With the preface of Zachariah Wood, physician of Roterdam. To which is added Dr. James de Back his Discourse of the heart. Physician in ordinary to the town of Roterdam. [And] Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. The author, William Harvey.
  • The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick and physician to the Kings Majesty, concerning the motion of the heart and blood / With the preface of Zachariah Wood, physician of Roterdam. To which is added Dr. James de Back his Discourse of the heart. Physician in ordinary to the town of Roterdam. [And] Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. The author, William Harvey.
  • The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick and physician to the Kings Majesty, concerning the motion of the heart and blood / With the preface of Zachariah Wood, physician of Roterdam. To which is added Dr. James de Back his Discourse of the heart. Physician in ordinary to the town of Roterdam. [And] Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. The author, William Harvey.
  • The anatomical exercises of Dr. William Harvey, professor of physick and physician to the Kings Majesty, concerning the motion of the heart and blood / With the preface of Zachariah Wood, physician of Roterdam. To which is added Dr. James de Back his Discourse of the heart. Physician in ordinary to the town of Roterdam. [And] Two anatomical exercitations concerning the circulation of the blood. The author, William Harvey.
  • Clocks: diagrams of the motions of composite pendulums. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Vaccinae vindicia; or, defence of vaccination: containing a refutation of the cases, and reasonings on the same, in Dr. Rowley's and Dr. Moseley's late extraordinary pamphlets against vaccination. In two letters to Dr. Moseley. With the Report of the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society. And the debate in the House of Commons (July 2, 1806) on a motion by Lord Henry Petty, for enlightening the people of England on the subject of vaccination ... / [Robert John Thornton].
  • Vaccinae vindicia; or, defence of vaccination: containing a refutation of the cases, and reasonings on the same, in Dr. Rowley's and Dr. Moseley's late extraordinary pamphlets against vaccination. In two letters to Dr. Moseley. With the Report of the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society. And the debate in the House of Commons (July 2, 1806) on a motion by Lord Henry Petty, for enlightening the people of England on the subject of vaccination ... / [Robert John Thornton].
  • Vaccinae vindicia; or, defence of vaccination: containing a refutation of the cases, and reasonings on the same, in Dr. Rowley's and Dr. Moseley's late extraordinary pamphlets against vaccination. In two letters to Dr. Moseley. With the Report of the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society. And the debate in the House of Commons (July 2, 1806) on a motion by Lord Henry Petty, for enlightening the people of England on the subject of vaccination ... / [Robert John Thornton].
  • Matæotechnia medicinæ praxeos. : The vanity of the craft of physick. Or, a new dispensatory: wherein is dissected the errors, ignorance, impostures and supinities of the schools, in their main pillars of purges, blood-letting, fontanels or issues, and diet, &c. and the particular medicines of the shops. With an humble motion for the reformation of the universities, and the whole landscap of physick, and discovering the terra incognita of chymistrie. To the parliament of England. / By Noah Biggs, chymiatrophilos.
  • Clocks: two composite pendulums, and diagrams of their motions. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
  • A method of studying physick. Containing what a physician ought to know in relation to the nature of bodies, the laws of motion ... and the properties of fluids: chymistry, pharmacy, and botany: osteology, myology ... and dissection: the theory and practice of physick: physiology, pathology, surgery, diet, etc. And the whole Praxis medica interna; with the names and characters of the most excellent authors on all these subjects ... their best editions, and the method of reading them / Written in Latin ... Translated into English by Mr. Samber.
  • Plate XXV. Surgical anatomy of the torso. Illustrating the action of the thoracio-abdominal apparatus as effecting the motions of the contained viscera.
  • Mathematicall magick. Or, the wonders that may be performed by mechanicall geometry in two books, concerning mechanical powers [and] motions : being one of the most easie, pleasant, useful, (and yet most neglected) part of mathematicks ... / By J. Wilkins.
  • Dr. Willis's Practice of physick, being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician: containing these eleven several treatises, viz. I. Of fermentation. II. Of feavers. III. Of urines. IV. Of the accension of the blood. V. Of musculary motion. VI. Of the anatomy of the brain. VII. Of the description and use of the nerves. VIII. Of convulsive diseases. IX. Pharmaceutice rationalis, the first and second part. X. Of the scurvy. XI. Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes. Wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same. Fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader. With forty copper plates / The Pharmaceutice new translated [as also the remainder, by Samuel Pordage], and the whole carefully corrected. And amended.
  • Dr. Willis's Practice of physick, being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician: containing these eleven several treatises, viz. I. Of fermentation. II. Of feavers. III. Of urines. IV. Of the accension of the blood. V. Of musculary motion. VI. Of the anatomy of the brain. VII. Of the description and use of the nerves. VIII. Of convulsive diseases. IX. Pharmaceutice rationalis, the first and second part. X. Of the scurvy. XI. Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes. Wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same. Fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader. With forty copper plates / The Pharmaceutice new translated [as also the remainder, by Samuel Pordage], and the whole carefully corrected. And amended.
  • Mathematicall magick. Or, the wonders that may be performed by mechanicall geometry. In two books. Concerning mechanicall powers [and] motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) part of mathematicks. Not before treated of in this language / By I[ohn] W[ilkins] M.A.
  • A treatise on the diseases of the heart and great vessels, and on the affections which may be mistaken for them : comprising the author's view of the physiology of the heart's actions and sounds, as demonstrated by his experiments on the motions and sounds in 1830, and on the sounds in 1834-35 / by J. Hope.
  • An absinthe addict eyeing three glasses on a table; advertisement for film "Absinthe". Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.
  • An absinthe addict eyeing three glasses on a table; advertisement for film "Absinthe". Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.
  • An absinthe addict eyeing three glasses on a table; advertisement for film "Absinthe". Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Aristotle and Ptolemy discuss with Copernicus their respective views on the movements of the Sun and the Earth. Engraving, 1663, after S. Della Bella, 1632.
  • Plus de mal de mer : plus de nausées en voiture!!!.