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  • A swelling red flower on a spiky stem; representing feelings of love and joy. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A swelling red flower on a spiky stem; representing feelings of love and joy. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • Dogbane (Apocynum erectum Vell.): flowering stem with separate leaf, rhizome swelling, fruit and sectioned flower. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • The head and shoulders of a young man, seen in 3/4 profile, with a large swelling on his neck. Drawing, c. 1818 (watermark).
  • Friern Hospital, London: a man, viewed from behind, with a swelling on his left elbow and the right side of his back. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • A section of leg with a swelling on the shin below the knee; and male genitalia with a lump on the testicles. Chromolithograph, c. 1888.
  • A section of leg with a swelling on the shin below the knee; and male genitalia with a lump on the testicles. Chromolithograph, c. 1888.
  • A man suffering from diseased genitals, with a swelling in the groin area and a rash of sores covering his entire body. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1856.
  • A penis with a skin disease on the glans; and a penis with a large patch of skin disease on the shaft causing a swelling. Chromolithograph, c. 1888.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a man with a wounded mouth and swelling to the chin and neck, before plastic surgery. Reproduction, ca. 1940 (?), of a photograph, ca. 1916.
  • Fowke & Aston's white oils are most approved in cases of stiffness, swelling, strains, inflammation of the lungs or throat &c. / prepared only by Fowke & Aston, chemists, Stafford.
  • A young man, naked to the waist and viewed from the side; he has a swelling on the back of his neck. Photograph by L. Haase after H.W. Berend, c. 1865.
  • A man suffering from chancre of the lip, displaying sores and abcesses on his scalp and forehead, with a swelling and diseased tissue inside his lower lip. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1867.
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscesses -- breast tumours and swellings
  • An emaciated naked man, displaying large swellings on his neck and groin, with smaller swellings visible on his chest, arms, abdomen and thigh. Process print, 18--.
  • Elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis): red swellings on a man's face (Henry Petman?). Watercolour, 1920/1950 (?).
  • Large, severe swellings on the abdomen of a man. Watercolour with chalk, by C. D'Alton, 1868.
  • Diseased penis and scrotum with swellings or ganglions in the groin area. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1858.
  • Diseased tissue and swellings in the groin area and thighs of a man. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1858.
  • Newmarket embrocation, or White oils : recommended for allaying swellings, inflammation, sprains, bruises, stiff joints, &c., &c. ... / Alfred Parker.
  • Four sketches of foot and hand deformities, showing swellings of the thumb and on the top of the foot. Drawing, c. 1818 (watermark).
  • Gaultheria procumbens Kalm Ericaeae. Wintergreen, teaberry, boxberry, chickerberry. Distribution: North American forests. Named for French physician/botanist Jean Francois Gaultier (1708-1756). Physician to the French King, emigrated to Quebec in 1742. Researched flora of North America, died of typhus (Oakeley, 2012). Source of oil of wintergreen. Ten pounds of oil can be extracted from a ton of leaves. Toxic effects: Stupidity, swelling of the tongue, food craving, epigastric tenderness, vomiting, dyspnoea, hot skin, tachycardia, restlessness (MiIlspaugh, 1974). Active chemical is methyl salicylate. Used topically for musculo-skeletal conditions, it is converted to salicylic acid when absorbed. Excess use has caused a death. Salicylic acid is also used for warts and corns (first described by Dioscorides in 70CE)
  • Calendula officinalis L. Asteraceae. Pot marigold, common marigold, ruds or ruddles. Calendula, because it was said to flower most commonly at the first of each month - the 'calends' (Coles, 1657). officinalis indicates that it was used in the 'offices' - the clinics - of the monks in medieval times. Annual herb. Distribution: Southern Europe. The Doctrine of Signatures, indicated that as the flowers resembled the pupil of the eye (along with Arnica, Inula and the ox-eye daisy), it was good for eye disorders (Porta, 1588). Coles (1658) writes '... the distilled water ... helpeth red and watery eyes, being washed therewith, which it does by Signature, as Crollius saith'. Culpeper writes: [recommending the leaves] '... loosen the belly, the juice held in the mouth helps the toothache and takes away any inflammation, or hot swelling being bathed with it mixed with a little vinegar.' The petals are used as a saffron substitute - ‘formerly much employed as a carminative
  • Pine's Devonshire oils, for cattle : worms in sheep, ewes' and cows' udders, black udder, scour in lambs, inflammations, gripes, chills, galls, sprains, swellings, broken knees, &c. : prepared & sold wholesale & retail by the proprietor / R.J. Joint.
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • Fowke & Aston's black oils are invaluable amongst horses and cattle, in all cases of bruises occasioned by the saddle, swellings, fistula, ulcer, sore shoulders : also to sheep when bitten by dogs, and ewes when bruised in lambing : or when applied in time to any serious wound, will prevent gangrene / prepared only by Fowke & Aston, chemists, Stafford.
  • Baker's Purified Driffield Oils : for preventing gangrene, or mortification after lambing or calving and for wounds in horses, cattle, calves, sheep and lambs, such as tumours, hard swellings, sprains, strains, broken knees, sore shoulders, saddle crushes, cracked heels, kicks, cuts, bruises, sore teats, fly galls and sore heads in sheep, and external inflammation of all kinds / Baker & Son (Geo. F. Bevis).