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  • An orange background bearing the white lettering: "Il vostro medico è tenuto al segreto professionale. Voi, invece, siete liberi di parlare dell'AIDS, della sessualità e della droga." [Your doctor is bound by professional secrecy. You, however, you are free to talk about AIDS, sexuality and drugs]; an advertisement by the Swiss Physicians [FMH] and Swiss Federal Office of Public Health [UFSP]. Colour lithograph.
  • Cichorium intybus L., Asteraceae. Chicory, succory. Distribution: Uses: 'Cichory, (or Succory as the vulgar call it) cools and strengthens the liver: so doth Endive' (Culpeper, 1650). The Cichorium sylvestre, Wilde Succorie, of Gerard (1633) and the leaves cooked into a soup for ill people. Linnaeus (1782) reported it was used for Melancholia, Hypochondria, Hectica [fever], haemorrhage and gout. Root contains 20% inulin, a sweetening agent. Dried, roasted and ground up the roots are used as a coffee substitute, best known as Camp coffee (Chicory and Coffee essence). This used to be sold in tall square section bottle with a label showing a circa 1885 army tent with a Sikh soldier standing and serving coffee to a seated officer from the Gordon Highlanders. The bottle on the label has now moved on, and since 2006 it shows the same tent but the Sikh and the Scot are now both seated, drinking Camp coffee together. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A military doctor / J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd.
  • A military doctor / J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd.
  • A British administrator and retired physician driving a carriage at high speed, accompanied by an Indian servant. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker after Captain G.F. Atkinson.
  • Ailing soldiers queuing up to see the doctor in a military surgery. Coloured lithograph by G. Gostiaux after himself.
  • Boer War: a military physician bandages a wounded man in the open air, others watch. Wash drawing with gouache by H. M. Paget, c.1900.
  • Boer War: a military physician bandages a wounded man in the open air, others watch. Halftone after H. M. Paget, c.1900.
  • Althaea officinalis L. Malvaceae. Marsh Mallow. Herbaceous perennial. Althaea comes from the Greek word for healing
  • Althaea officinalis L. Malvaceae. Marsh Mallow. Herbaceous perennial. Althaea comes from the Greek word for healing
  • Paeonia officinalis 'Flore Pleno'
  • Paeonia officinalis 'Flore Pleno'
  • Paeonia officinalis 'Flore Pleno'
  • Paeonia officinalis 'Flore Pleno'
  • M0003323: Portrait of Sir George Newman (1870-1948)
  • M0003323: Portrait of Sir George Newman (1870-1948)
  • M0003323: Portrait of Sir George Newman (1870-1948)
  • Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston. Photograph by A.C. Cooper after George Henry, 1925.
  • Ask your doctor what the "AIDS test" positive and negative is
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian before the judge (?) (above) and Saint Cosmas (below). Oil painting by a Spanish painter, ca. 1600.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian before the judge (?) (above) and Saint Cosmas (below). Oil painting by a Spanish painter, ca. 1600.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian before the judge (?) (above) and Saint Cosmas (below). Oil painting by a Spanish painter, ca. 1600.
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian before the judge (?) (above) and Saint Cosmas (below). Oil painting by a Spanish painter, ca. 1600.
  • Names of officers of the Honorable Medico Docti Fill Your Belly Society, a spoof medical society. Lithograph, 1834.
  • A doctor examining a disgruntled patient, John Bull, who is being reassured by his master. Lithograph by Crichton, 1834.
  • William Gordon. Photograph by Heath & Bradnee Ltd.
  • Chinese woodcut, Famous medical figures: Chunyu Yi
  • A physician trying to take advantage of a young woman patient by visiting her at home while her husband is out. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
  • The countries of Europe representing physicians and surgeons trying to regenerate a woman personifying the Dutch republic. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.
  • Julia Pastrana, "the nondescript", advertised for exhibition. Colour woodcut.