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  • Man with 'wasting palsy'
  • Leprosy: peripheral nerve palsy
  • Man suffering from right facial palsy
  • Pressure palsy, deletion c'some 17, cosmid
  • Pressure Palsy, deletion c'some 17, cosmid
  • An essay on the shaking palsy / by James Parkinson.
  • A near-naked woman with cerebral palsy walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Christ healing a man with the palsy. Engraving by W. de Broen after B. Picart.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis L. Lamiaceae Rosemary. Woody perennial. Distribution: Mediterranean. Quincy (1718) commended the flowers for epilepsy, apoplexy, palsies, uterine obstruction, jaundice, gout, and syringed into the ear with warm water for dislodging wax. It is licensed for use in Traditional Herbal Medicines in the UK (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tanacetum cinerariifolium Sch.Blp. Asteraceae Dalmation chrysanthemum, Pyrethrum, Pellitory, Tansy. Distribution: Balkans. Source of the insecticides called pyrethrins. The Physicians of Myddfai in the 13th century used it for toothache. Gerard called it Pyrethrum officinare, Pellitorie of Spain but mentions no insecticidal use, mostly for 'palsies', agues, epilepsy, headaches, to induce salivation, and applied to the skin, to induce sweating. He advised surgeons to use it to make a cream against the Morbum Neopolitanum [syphilis]. However he also describes Tanacetum or Tansy quite separately.. Quincy (1718) gave the same uses
  • Did you comb your hair this morning, or did someone help you? : Lioresal / Ciba Laboratories.
  • Did you comb your hair this morning, or did someone help you? : Lioresal / Ciba Laboratories.
  • Did you comb your hair this morning, or did someone help you? : Lioresal / Ciba Laboratories.
  • Did you comb your hair this morning, or did someone help you? : Lioresal / Ciba Laboratories.
  • Portrait of Wilhelm Erb.
  • Stenosis, aqueduct
  • Stenosis, aqueduct
  • The paralytic is lowered through the roof of a crowded house so that Christ can reach him and cure him. Engraving by J. Newton, 1795 (?), after C.R. Ryley.
  • Michel Cullerier. Lithograph by Ducarme after H. Garnier, 1823.
  • Crowds gather as Christ heals sick people. Lithograph after Benjamin West.
  • Christ healing a paralysed man lowered from the roof of a house in Capernaum. Engraving.
  • The spider and fly : the advertiser takes this opportunity of informing his friends and a discerning public, that he continues the trade of making drunkards, paupers, thieves, beggars, adulterers, and murderers, on the most reasonable terms, and without notice.
  • A pathetic picture of pain and perplexity seen daily in every part of the British Isles... : Dr. Jenner's Kidney and Liver Cure... it prevents and cures all kidney troubles / Alfred Parker.
  • A triumphant American slave woman representing quassia (ingredient in acoholic drinks) is carried aloft by two brewers; representing the outcry against a tax on private brewing (?). Etching by J. Gillray, 1806.
  • Primula veris L. Primulaceae Cowslip, Herba paralysis Distribution: W. Asia, Europe. Fuchs ((1542) quotes Dioscorides Pliny and Galen, with numerous uses, from bruises, toothache, as a hair dye, for oedema, inflamed eye, and mixed with honey, wine or vinegar for ulcer and wounds, for scorpion bites, and pain in the sides and chest, and more. Lobel (1576) calls them Primula veriflorae, Phlomides, Primula veris, Verbascula. Lyte (1578) calls them Cowslippe, Petie mulleyn, Verbasculum odoratum, Primula veris, Herbae paralysis and Artheticae. Along with cowslips and oxeslips, he says they are 'used dayly among other pot herbes, but in Physicke there is no great account of them. They are good for the head and synewes ...'. Like other herbals of the 16th and 17th century, the woodcuts leave one in no doubt that Primula veris was being written about. However, other translators of Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959 with Goodyear's 1655 translation
  • Primula veris L. Primulaceae. Cowslip, Herba paralysis Distribution: W. Asia, Europe. Fuchs ((1542) quotes Dioscorides Pliny and Galen, with numerous uses, from bruises, toothache, as a hair dye, for oedema, inflamed eye, and mixed with honey, wine or vinegar for ulcer and wounds, for scorpion bites, and pain in the sides and chest, and more. Lobel (1576) calls them Primula veriflorae, Phlomides, Primula veris, Verbascula. Like other herbals of the 16th and 17th century, the woodcuts leave one in no doubt that Primula veris was being written about. However, other translators of Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959 with Goodyear's 1655 translation
  • Astrantia major 'Hadspen Blood'.
  • Potentilla thurberi 'Monarch's Velvet'