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  • Polygonum Bistorta (Bistort)
  • Five flowering plants, including bistort (Polygonum bistorta) and knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Five flowering plants, including water pepper (Polygonum hydropiper) and redleg (Polygonum persicaria). Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Two plants, one possibly a knotweed (Polygonum species). Watercolour.
  • A plant (Polygonum orientale): flowering stem. Coloured engraving, c. 1792.
  • A plant, possibly a knotweed (Polygonum species): flowering stem and leaves. Watercolour.
  • Redleg plant (Polygonum persicaria): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
  • Water pepper plant (Polygonum hydropiper) and two square segments of a gel-like substance. Watercolour.
  • A ground-cover plant (Polygonum vacciniifolium): flowering stem. Coloured zincograph by C. Rosenberg, c. 1850, after himself.
  • Two species of knotweed (Polygonum species): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
  • Six British wild flowers, including water pepper and knotweed (Polygonum species). Coloured lithograph, c. 1846, after H. Humphreys.
  • Polygonum bistorta L. Polygonaceae Bistort, snakeweed, Easter Ledges. Distribution: Europe, N & W Asia. Culpeper: “... taken inwardly resist pestilence and poison, helps ruptures, and bruises, stays fluxes, vomiting and immoderate flowing of the terms in women, helps inflammations and soreness of the mouth, and fastens loose teeth, being bruised and boiled in white wine and the mouth washed with it.” In modern herbal medicine it is still used for a similar wide variety of internal conditions, but it can also be cooked and eaten as a vegetable. The use to relieve toothache, applied as a paste to the affected tooth, seems to have been widespread. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Back ache quickly relieved by Carter's smart weed and belladonna Back Ache Plasters.
  • Oh! My poor back" dran' pa" o'o ought to put on one of Carter's backache plasters" : Carter's Backache Plasters.
  • Carter's Backache Plasters for every ache or pain : puzzle card.
  • Carter's Backache Plasters for every ache or pain : puzzle card.
  • Back ache quickly relieved by Carter's smart weed and belladonna Back Ache Plasters.
  • Oh! My poor back" dran' pa" o'o ought to put on one of Carter's backache plasters" : Carter's Backache Plasters.
  • Presented by the makers of Carter's Little Liver Pills : back-ache quickly cured by Carter's smart weed and belladonna Back-Ache Plasters.
  • Presented by the makers of Carter's Little Liver Pills : back-ache quickly cured by Carter's smart weed and belladonna Back-Ache Plasters.