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  • Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1885.
  • Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1885.
  • Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1885.
  • Title page to a statistical analysis of mortality during the plague epidemic in London of 1665. Etching, 18--.
  • Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi Lamiaceae. Baikal skullcap. Distribution: China. There are several hundred species of Scutellaria, also known as skull caps, so correct identification is important - in particular from Scutellaria lateriflora an American species known as Blue skullcap. The latter is used as an abortifacient and to expel placenta by the Cherokee and for cleaning the throat by the Iroquois (Austin, 2004). Much vaunted as a treatment for rabies with unlikely statistics (1,400 cases cured by one doctor alone). Also as ‘antispasmodic, nervine, [for] chorea, convulsions, tetanus, tremors, delirium tremens, [and as a] diaphoretic and diuretic'. Toxicity symptoms include mental confusion, stupor, headache, vertigo, photophobia, dilated pupils, difficulty in micturition, bradycardia, tremulousness and languor, followed by wakefulness and restlessness (Milspaugh, 1974). Hutchens (1991) reported that it reduces sexual desire and was used for almost every nervous illness. Scutellaria baicalensis contains baicalin, baicalein and wogonin (European Medicines Agency, September 2010). It is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for treating inflammation, cancer, bacterial and viral infections of the lungs and gut and is one of the '50 Chinese herbs' in the lists of some authors. Scutellaria lateriflora (combined with Verbena officinalis, Passiflora incarnata and the seed of Avena sativa (oats) is licensed for use in Britain as a herbal medicine for temporary relief of mild symptoms of stress such as mild anxiety and to aid sleep, based upon traditional use only. Scutellaria baicalensis is not licensed for use in the UK (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables... / [Robert Gardiner Hill].
  • Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables... / [Robert Gardiner Hill].
  • A bedside manual of physical diagnosis / [Charles Cowan].
  • Ristretto di tutti li nati nella città di Venezia l'anno 1772 : ristretto di tutti li morti nella città di Venezia l'anno 1772 / Tommaso Monti scrivan.
  • Enteric fevers and inoculation in the French Army during the Great War : 1914-1918.
  • Annual report of the Registrar-General of births, deaths, and marriages in England.
  • Annual report of the Registrar-General of births, deaths, and marriages in England.
  • The meteorological phenomena, during the second outbreak, from May 20th to November 10th, 1849 : with the deaths from cholera in each week, and those (male and female) from all causes (daily).
  • Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By John Graunt ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].
  • Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By Capt. John Graunt, fellow of the Royal society. With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, air, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].
  • Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By John Graunt ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].
  • Natural and political observations mentioned in a following index, and made upon the Bills of mortality / By John Graunt ... With reference to the government, religion, trade, growth, ayre, diseases, and the several changes of the said city [London] [Sometimes ascribed to Sir W. Petty].
  • The relative incidence and mortality from enteric fever among British troops engaged in the South African War and the Great War 1914-1918.
  • Report on the mortality of cholera in England, 1848-49.
  • Report on the mortality of cholera in England, 1848-49.
  • Report on the mortality of cholera in England, 1848-49.
  • Report on the mortality of cholera in England, 1848-49.
  • Report on the mortality of cholera in England, 1848-49.
  • Report on the mortality of cholera in England, 1848-49.
  • Report on the mortality of cholera in England, 1848-49.
  • Report on the mortality of cholera in England, 1848-49.
  • Census of Great Britain, 1851 : population tables.
  • A table of conceded years of Indulgence for the period of the Passion, surrounding the monogram of Jesus and surrounded by little angels, one of whom carries the attributes of the papacy. Engraving by A. Schmutzer and J. Schmutzer.
  • A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.
  • Fifty years in public health : a personal narrative with comments / by Sir Arthur Newsholme.