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  • Statistics of insanity : being a decennial report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1855 inclusive / by W. Charles Hood.
  • Statistics of insanity : being a decennial report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1855 inclusive / by W. Charles Hood.
  • Statistics of insanity : being a decennial report of Bethlem Hospital, from 1846 to 1855 inclusive / by W. Charles Hood.
  • An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.
  • An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.
  • An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.
  • An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.
  • An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.
  • An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.
  • An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead / By Charles Kite ... Being the essay to which the Humane Society's Medal was adjudged. To which is prefixed, Dr. Lettsom's address on the delivery of the Medal.
  • Paris quadrifolia L. Trilliaceae Herb Paris Distribution: Europe and temperate Asia. This dramatic plant was known as Herb Paris or one-berry. Because of the shape of the four leaves, resembling a Burgundian cross or a true love-knot, it was also known as Herb True Love. Prosaically, the name ‘Paris’ stems from the Latin ‘pars’ meaning ‘parts’ referring to the four equal leaves, and not to the French capital or the lover of Helen of Troy. Sixteenth century herbalists such as Fuchs, who calls it Aconitum pardalianches which means leopard’s bane, and Lobel who calls it Solanum tetraphyllum, attributed the poisonous properties of Aconitum to it. The latter, called monkshood and wolfsbane, are well known as poisonous garden plants. Gerard (1633), however, reports that Lobel fed it to animals and it did them no harm, and caused the recovery of a dog poisoned deliberately with arsenic and mercury, while another dog, which did not receive Herb Paris, died. It was recommended thereafter as an antidote to poisons. Coles (1657) wrote 'Herb Paris is exceedingly cold, wherupon it is proved to represse the rage and force of any Poyson, Humour , or Inflammation.' Because of its 'cold' property it was good for swellings of 'the Privy parts' (where presumably hot passions were thought to lie), to heal ulcers, cure poisoning, plague, procure sleep (the berries) and cure colic. Through the concept of the Doctrine of Signatures, the black berry represented an eye, so oil distilled from it was known as Anima oculorum, the soul of the eye, and 'effectual for all the disease of the eye'. Linnaeus (1782) listed it as treating 'Convulsions, Mania, Bubones, Pleurisy, Opththalmia', but modern authors report the berry to be toxic. That one poison acted as an antidote to another was a common, if incorrect, belief in the days of herbal medicine. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Certain necessary directions, as well for the cure of the plague, as for preventing the infection with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Majesties subjects / Set downe by the Colledge of Physicians by the Kings Majesties speciall command. With sundry orders thought meet by His Majestie, and his Privie Councell for prevention of the plague. Also certaine select statutes ... Together with His Majesties proclamation for further direction therein and a decree in Starre-Chamber. Concerning buildings and in-mates.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Anglo-American Conference on AIDS : 21 to 23 September 1988 at 1, Wimpole Street, London W.1 / sponsored jointly by the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation, Inc.
  • Report of the Third International Conference 1906 on Genetics : hybridisation (the cross-breeding of genera or species), the cross-breeding of varieties, and general plant-breeding / edited by W. Wilks.
  • Report of the Third International Conference 1906 on Genetics : hybridisation (the cross-breeding of genera or species), the cross-breeding of varieties, and general plant-breeding / edited by W. Wilks.
  • Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.
  • Bethlem Hospital, London. Oil painting.
  • Bethlem Hospital, London. Oil painting.
  • A narrative of the proceedings at the laying of the first stone of the new buildings at Bethlem Hospital : on Thursday, the 26th day of July MDCCCXXXVIII: with historical notes and illustrations, and official documents / by Peter Laurie.
  • Bethlem Hospital, London. Oil painting.
  • In a lunatic asylum, and in the company of a variety of other deranged individuals, a half-naked Ramble Gripe, his wrists chained, is restrained by orderlies. Engraving by T. Bowles, 1735.
  • Lectures on the elements of farriery: or, the art of horse-shoeing, and on the diseases of the foot. Designed chiefly for the use of the pupils of the Veterinary College, London / By Charles Vial de Sainbel.
  • Bethlem Hospital, London. Oil painting.
  • An historical account of the origin, progress, and present state of Bethlem Hospital. Founded by Henry the eighth, for the cure of lunatics, and enlarged ... for the reception and maintenance of incurables / [Thomas Bowen].
  • Annals of the Royal Society Club : the record of a London dining-club in the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, by Sir Archibald Geikie ... / [Sir Archibald Geikie].