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  • The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. Old building.
  • Four scenes from the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney Heath, London. Wood engraving, 1881.
  • Where the British bluejacket is cared for when sick or wounded : scenes at the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar.
  • Where the British bluejacket is cared for when sick or wounded : scenes at the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar.
  • A Chelsea Pensioner standing in the hall at the Royal Hospital, leaning on his stick. Watercolour painting.
  • Concerned? : Both the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and the City Hospital offer counselling to help you decide about taking the HIV test, testing and advice once a result is available ...
  • A group of Chelsea Pensioners disputing in the Hall at the Royal Hospital. Colour lithograph after E.R. White.
  • Pensioners of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, celebrating the anniversary of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar. Engraving by J. Burnet, 1836.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea; and the Rotunda at Ranelagh: viewed from the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Coloured engraving.
  • World War One: superintending Sister Quarns is seated in a chair at the Royal Hospital Haslar. Watercolour by O. Moser, 1919.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner reading from a book to a small boy, both sitting on the balustrade at the Royal Naval Hospital. Wood engraving.
  • An x-ray technician's hand, mutilated with dermatitis, after habitual work with x-ray apparatus at the Royal London Hospital. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich, viewed at sunset from afar with many ships, fishermen in the foreground. Lithograph by J. D. Harding after himself.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: view of the Pensioners cheering and waving their hats and sticks, at a King Charles's Day Parade. Wood engraving.
  • The Royal Hospital at Chelsea; Stephen Fox, the architect, in a boat on the Thames in the foreground. Engraving by J. Kip, ca. 1707.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from Romney Road looking towards the Isle of Dogs, with a ship at the quayside, people in the foreground. Engraving (fragment) by T. Lawranson.
  • Chelsea Pensioners, one of whom has just died in his pew, in the Chapel at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Process print by Boussod Valadon after H. von Herkomer, 1875.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, viewed at a distance, from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving by J. Greig after T. H. Shepherd, 1822.
  • A pair of Pensioners, seated at a table, playing draughts, with others looking on, inside the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, with a vignette of tricorn hat, wooden leg, clay pipe, drinking glass and medals at lower left. Etching by G. Fox, 1887.
  • Residents at the Old Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, summer 1854: clockwise from left, John Beddoe (seated left), John Kirk (back row), George Hogarth Pringle (back row), Patrick Heron Watson (back row), Alexander Struthers (seated right), David Christison (seated in front, right), Joseph Lister (seated in front, left). Photograph.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea; and the Rotunda at Ranelagh: views of the north and south facades, the former an elevational view, the latter a bird's-eye view, with boats on the river. Engraving by B. Cole, 1756.
  • Veratrum nigrum L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and, when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying-in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum - and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Veratrum album L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum -and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Saint Paul shipwrecked on Malta. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1791, after B. West.
  • Saint Paul shipwrecked on Malta. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1791, after B. West.
  • Saint Paul landing on Malta (Acts. 27-28). Etching by F. Bartolozzi after B. West, 1791.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving after T. Bowles, 1753.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. Etching by B. Cole.
  • Royal Hospital, Greenwich, with the statue of George II in the courtyard. Engraving by B. Cole.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, the gate piers and porters' lodges: plans and elevations, with a scale of feet. Engraving by J. Basire after himself, 1752.