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  • Birkbeck, T. B.
  • Japanese/Chinese woodcut: Infectious 'red-eye' (chiyan)
  • Hylotelephium telephium syn. Sedum telephium 'Matrona'
  • Lobellia inflata (Lobelia)
  • Acacia karoo
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
  • A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Lonicera periclymenum L. Caprifoliaceae. Honeysuckle Distribution: Europe. This shrubby, fragrant, white-flowered honeysuckle is named for Adam Lonitzer (Lonicerus) (1528–86). German botanist, physician and author of Naturalis historiae opus novum (1551, 1555) and the Kreuterbuch (1557)
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Datura stramonium (Thornapple). Also called Jimsonweed
  • Rhododendron yakushuminum 'Grumpy'
  • Rhododendron yakushimanum 'Grumpy'
  • Podophyllum peltatum (May apple or American mandrake)
  • Smilacina racemosa Desf. syn. Maianthemum racemosum (L.)Link Convallariaceae. False Spikenard, False Solomon's Seal, Scurvy berries, Treacle berries. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) reports on Native American traditional usage: Cold infusion of the roots for sore eyes (Cherokee)
  • Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
  • Smilacina racemosa Desf. syn. Maianthemum racemosum (L.)Link Convallariaceae. False Spikenard, False Solomon's Seal, Scurvy berries, Treacle berries. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: North America. Probably introduced to England by John Tradescant the Younger in 1656 as it appears in his garden plant catalogue in Musaeum Tradescantianum in 1656. Austin (2004) reports on Native American traditional usage: a cold infusion of the roots was used for sore eyes (Cherokee)
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Bezoars, etc.
  • Theory of diseases treated with Minor Bupleurum decoction
  • Ming herbal (painting): Omphalia lapidescens Schroet.)
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Brine
  • Theory of diseases treated with chaihu guizhi tang, Chinese
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Final-month month snow water
  • Paeonia officinalis (Peony)
  • Papaver rhoeas L. Papaveraceae Corn Poppy, Flanders Poppy. Distribution: Temperate Old World. Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959) recommended five or six seed heads in wine to get a good night's sleep the leaves and seeds applied as a poultice to heal inflammation, and the decoction sprinkled on was soporiferous. Culpeper (1650) ' ... Syrup of Red, or Erratick Poppies: by many called Corn-Roses. ... Some are of the opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other - believe them that list [wishes to]: I know no danger in this syrup, so it be taken in moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts