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  • Hacquetia epipactis DC Apiaceae. Small herbaceous perennial. No common name except Hacquetia Distribution: Europe. Named for the Austrian physician, Balthasar (or Belsazar) Hacquet (1739/40-1815). He studied medicine in Vienna, was a surgeon in the brutal Seven Years War (1756-1763) – a world-wide war in which up to 1,400,000 people died. Later he was professor at the University of Lemberg (1788-1810). He wrote widely on many scientific disciplines including geology. Parkinson (1640) grouped it with Helleborus and Veratrum, calling it 'Epipactis Matthioli, Matthiolus, his bastard black hellebore' but does not give any uses. It has no medicinal properties. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Foolish Sam, a mentally defective man in London. Etching by B. Nebot, ca. 1773.
  • World War I: St Dunstan's hostel for the blind, Regents Park, London. Watercolour by Walter Spradbery, 1919.
  • Doctor Bossy, a medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Pencil drawing after A. van Assen.
  • Doctor Bossy, a medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Pencil drawing after A. van Assen.
  • Doctor Bossy, an infamous medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Etching, 1795, after A. van Assen.
  • Doctor Bossy, an infamous medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Etching, 1795, after A. van Assen.
  • Anatomy lessons at St Dunstan's. Oil painting by J.H. Lobley, 1919.
  • Anatomy lessons at St Dunstan's. Oil painting by J.H. Lobley, 1919.
  • Anatomy lessons at St Dunstan's. Oil painting by J.H. Lobley, 1919.
  • Doctor Bossy, a medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Pencil drawing after A. van Assen.
  • Doctor Bossy, a medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Pencil drawing after A. van Assen.
  • King Edward VII Sanatorium, Midhurst, Sussex: nurses and medical staff (?) about to dine. Photograph, 1907.
  • Lady Godiva interceding for the people of Coventry. Engraving by C.G. Playter after W. Hamilton.
  • John Heaviside. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1803, after J. Zoffany.
  • Entertainment ephemera. Box 1.
  • John Coakley Lettsom, physician, with his family, in the garden of Grove Hill, Camberwell.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Hylotelephium telephium syn. Sedum telephium 'Matrona'
  • Thomas Dromgoole speaking at a meeting of the Catholic Board in Dublin; represented as Doctor Drum "letting the cat out of the bag". Coloured etching, 1813.
  • Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
  • People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • Compilation of newspaper cuttings including a banner held by two men with the slogan 'Aids Coalition To Unleash Power. ACT-UP'; an advertisement for the campaign Act Up Manchester in support of care for those with AIDS. Black and white photocopy with yellow.
  • 13th self-portrait.
  • 13th self-portrait.
  • Acacia karoo
  • A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.