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  • Inheritance in snails and Mendelian. Inheritance in Andalusian fowls.
  • A variety of gasteropod molluscs, including glaucus, snails and slugs. Line block.
  • Memory on the chemical composition of snails and the pharmaceutical preparations of which they are the base, second page
  • Memory on the chemical composition of snails and the pharmaceutical preparations of which they are the base. Fifth Page
  • Memory on the chemical composition of snails and the pharmaceutical preparations of which they are the base, fourth page.
  • Memory on the chemical composition of snails and the pharmaceutical preparations of which they are the base. Third Page
  • Memory on the chemical composition of snails and the pharmaceutical preparations of which they are the base. Seventh Page
  • Memory on the chemical composition of snails and the pharmaceutical preparations of which they are the base, sixth Page
  • Tongues and other microscopic parts of snails. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after T. West, after W. F. Maples.
  • The dockside in Naples: a man is cooking snails in a pot over an open fire, while another man reads aloud from a book by Ariosto. Watercolour painting.
  • Snail with parasitic cyst
  • Liverfluke: snail habitat in pasture
  • Liverfluke: snail habitat in pasture
  • Liverfluke: snail habitat - animal poaching
  • Chinese C18 woodcut: 'Stinking snail' sore
  • Snail host for liverfluke compared to coin
  • Brillantaisia ulugurica Lindau, Acanthaceae. Giant salvia. Tropical herbaceous plant. Distribution: Tropical Africa. Brillantaisia patula is used by the Yoruba in south Nigeria for small-pox medication, the roots being mixed with Bahia nitida and Marantolchloa leucantha, Piper guineense and snails. This is made into a soup and the snail piece eaten to protect against smallpox for a year (Neuwinger, 1994) which doubtless was effective after the global eradication of smallpox in 1979. Brillantaisia nitens is used in the Cameroons to treat cardiovascular disorders. Phytochemical screening of Brillantaisia species have shown antibacterial action, vascular smooth muscle relaxant properties. Kew reports their use as soap
  • Chinese C18 woodcut: External medicine - 'Snail sores'
  • Above, a lump sucker; below, a snail sucker. Engraving by Heath.
  • Minute internal structure of humane brain, tench, bee, garden snail brain.
  • A large edible snail: five figures, including a cross-section of the shell. Chromolithograph, 1870.
  • Several varieties of field snail (Helix hortensis). Colour reproduction of a painting by L. F. Muckley.
  • Seven animals from Japan, including two frogs, a snail, a slug, a water-bug and a silver fish. Gouache painting.
  • Humans shown in their relationships with their pet animals, including a man trying to teach his crow the principles of language and children snail racing. Coloured lithograph.
  • Phrenological propensities: adhesiveness, inhabitiveness, constructiveness, combativeness, destructiveness; illustrated by a couple stuck in a bog, a snail in its shell, a spider in its web, a huge brawl, a bull in a china shop. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • Phrenological propensities: adhesiveness, inhabitiveness, constructiveness, combativeness, destructiveness; illustrated by a couple stuck in a bog, a snail in its shell, a spider in its web, a huge brawl, a bull in a china shop. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • The cochlea is a vital part of our ear, allowing us to detect a wide range of frequencies of sound. This is a picture showing the characteristic snail shell structure of the cochlea in the inner ear, captured on a high-resolution electron microscope. The bone usually covering the cochlea has been removed to open up a window into the hidden world of hearing.
  • Euphorbia milii Des Moul. Euphorbiaceae. Crown of Thorns - so called because of its very spiny stems. Distribution: Madagascar. The latex contains a copper-containing amine oxidase, a lectin, lipase, peroxidase, and a diamine oxidase. In vitro the latex is synergistic with ketoconazole against Candida albicans (thrush). All Euphorbia have a toxic white latex, and in Europe this has been used as a folk remedy to treat warts. It can cause skin allergies and the smoke from burning them is toxic. the genus named for Euphorbus (fl. circa 10 BC – 20 AD), the Greek physician to the Berber King Juba II (c. 50 BC – 23 AD) of Numidia, Euphorbia milii is one of the tropical spurges, with fierce, cactus-like spines, grown as a house plant. The sap of spurges is used in folk medicine for treating warts (not very effective), and, historically, as a purgative - the word spurge being derived from the French word for purgation. The sap (probably dried) was administered inside a fig because it is so corrosive that it would otherwise burn the mouth and oesophagus – a technique used today, rather more subtly, with ‘enteric coated’ medications. The sap contains a potential anti-leukaemic chemical, lasiodoplin, and is also used in drainage ditches to kill the snails which carry the parasitic trematode which causes fasciolaris. It does not kill the fish. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A woman holds up a jug; representing the study of nature. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • A bird's beak cuts a woman's hand; representing the sense of touch and the fact that it persists longer (in pain) than the other senses. Engraving, 16--.