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  • Anatomical structures: six figures. Lithograph by Sinclair's.
  • Dissection of a foetus and the womb of the mother, shortly after birth. Colour mezzotint by J. F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1754.
  • Foetus in amniotic sac
  • Uterus with caruncles, bovine
  • Dissection of the pregnant uterus, showing the foetus at nine months. Copperplate engraving by R. Strange after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.
  • Adiantum venustum D.Don Adiantaceae (although placed by some in Pteridaceae). Himalayan maidenhair fern. Small evergreen hardy fern. Distribution: Afghanistan-India. It gains its vernacular name from the wiry black stems that resemble hairs. Adiantum comes from the Greek for 'dry' as the leaflets remain permanently dry. The Cherokee used A. pedatum to make their hair shiny. Henry Lyte (1576), writing on A. capillus-veneris, notes that it restores hair, is an antidote to the bites of mad dogs and venomous beasts
  • Details of arteries and veins. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • Mouse Blastocyst showing inner cell mass
  • 2 mouse blastocysts showing inner cell mass
  • Mouse umbilical cord
  • Mouse umbilical cord
  • The anatomy of Dr Frederick Ruysch. Oil painting by B. F. Landis,1909-1910, after Jan van Neck, 1683.
  • Diagram of blastocyst
  • The anatomy of Dr Frederick Ruysch. Oil painting by B. F. Landis,1909-1910, after Jan van Neck, 1683.
  • Implantation of blastocyst
  • Notes taken by an anonymous student of lectures on Midwifery by Dr. Colin Mackenzie at the General Lying-in Hospital [afterwards Queen Charlotte's Hospital.] [Followed by] Diseases of children, with directions for the management of them. To which is added the symptoms by which you can distinguish their complaints, and the Materia Medica infantum [by] Dr. Osborn and Mr. Clark. The first leaf of text is dated January 29, 1770. Produced in London.
  • Clonal differentiation in the mouse embryo
  • W. Cowper, Anatomy of Humane Bodies, 1698
  • Agapanthus 'Streamline'
  • 6-day old chick embryo viewed under a stereo microscope, LM
  • 6-day old chick embryo viewed under a stereo microscope, LM
  • Spirochete presentation in inguinal lymph node section
  • Spirochete presentation in inguinal lymph node section
  • Spirochete presentation in inguinal lymph node section
  • Developing mouse embryo days 1-4
  • C19 Chinese MS moxibustion point chart: Cervix point
  • Calendula officinalis L. Asteraceae. Pot marigold, common marigold, ruds or ruddles. Calendula, because it was said to flower most commonly at the first of each month - the 'calends' (Coles, 1657). officinalis indicates that it was used in the 'offices' - the clinics - of the monks in medieval times. Annual herb. Distribution: Southern Europe. The Doctrine of Signatures, indicated that as the flowers resembled the pupil of the eye (along with Arnica, Inula and the ox-eye daisy), it was good for eye disorders (Porta, 1588). Coles (1658) writes '... the distilled water ... helpeth red and watery eyes, being washed therewith, which it does by Signature, as Crollius saith'. Culpeper writes: [recommending the leaves] '... loosen the belly, the juice held in the mouth helps the toothache and takes away any inflammation, or hot swelling being bathed with it mixed with a little vinegar.' The petals are used as a saffron substitute - ‘formerly much employed as a carminative
  • Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (12)
  • Early mouse embryo preimplantation, LM
  • Dissection of the pregnant uterus, showing the foetus at eight months, with the head positioned towards the vagina. Copperplate engraving by J.C. Bryer after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.