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  • Bulletin of the Society of Medical History of Chicago.
  • Conference of the German society for medical history, meeting in Homburg, Germany, 1927: delegates. Photograph by T.H. Voigt, 1927.
  • A dissertation on the natural history and medicinal effects of the secale cornutum, or ergot / By Oliver Prescott. Read at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, June 2, 1813.
  • A dissertation on the natural history and medicinal effects of the secale cornutum, or ergot / By Oliver Prescott. Read at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, June 2, 1813.
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
  • Medical life.
  • Medical life.
  • Medical life.
  • Medical life.
  • Medical life.
  • British medical societies / edited by Sir D'Arcy Power.
  • The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London : centenary, 1805-1905 / written at the request of the president and council by Norman Moore and Stephen Paget.
  • The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London : centenary, 1805-1905 / written at the request of the president and council by Norman Moore and Stephen Paget.
  • The medical repository.
  • The medical repository.
  • The medical repository.
  • The medical repository.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • An octave for Mr Ernest Hart at Sir Henry Thompson's house. Oil painting by Solomon Joseph Solomon R.A., ca. 1893.
  • The trunks of the vena cava, with their branches, engraving by Benard, 1779, after an engraving by M. Vandergucht after W. Cowper, 1702, after a preparation by G. Leoni, c. 1645.
  • The trunks of the vena cava, with their branches, engraving by Benard, late 18th century, after an engraving by M. Vandergucht after W. Cowper, 1702, after a preparation by G. Leoni, c. 1645.