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  • White matter innervation of the neocortex, MRI
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
  • Arctium lappa L. Asteraceae. Greater Burdock. Distribution: Europe to India and Japan. Dioscorides (Beck, 2003) writes: '... helps those who spit blood and who suffer from abscesses ... plastered on it stems the pains around the joints that stem from twistings. The Leaves are applied beneficially on old ulcers.' Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘Burdanae, etc. Of Bur, Clot-Bur or Burdock, ... helps such as spit blood and matter, bruised and mixed salt and applied to the place, helpeth the bitings of mad dogs. It expels wind, easeth pains of the teeth, strengthens the back, helps the running of the reins, and the whites in women, being taken inwardly.’ The roots contain inulin, which is made into a non-digestible sweetener for diabetics. It has a multitude of uses in herbal medicine, in particular it is a component of a compound called ‘essiac’ that has been widely used as a treatment of cancers in the USA, but which is of no proven benefit. The young roots can be eaten raw or cooked. The seeds are hairy and care should be taken when harvesting them as inhaled they are reported as ‘toxic’. The root is licensed for use in Traditional Herbal Medicines in the UK (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Matthiola incana (L.)W.T.Aiton Brassicaceae Distribution: The genus name commemorates Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500/1–77), physician and botanist, whose name is Latinised to Matthiolus.. Incana means hoary or grey, referring to the colour of the leaves. Mattioli's commentaries on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides were hugely popular. Matthiola incana was first described by Linnaeus as Cheiranthus incanus, being changed to Matthiola by William Aiton, at Kew, in 1812. It is in the cabbage family. Commercial seed packets contain a mixture of single and double forms. The latter are sterile, but selective breeding has increased the proportion of double forms from the seed of single forms to as much as 80%. ‘Ten week stocks’ are popular garden annuals, flowering in the year of sowing, whereas ‘Brompton stocks’ (another variety of M. incana) are biennials, flowering the following year. Gerard (1633), called them Stocke Gillofloure or Leucoium, and notes the white and purple forms, singles and doubles. About their medicinal value he writes ‘not used in Physicke except among certain Empiricks and Quacksalvers, about love and lust matters, which for modestie I omit’. The thought of a member of the cabbage family being an aphrodisiac might encourage the gullible to take more seriously the government’s plea to eat five portions of vegetable/fruit per day. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Healthy adult human head and brain viewed from behind, MRI
  • Brain tractography
  • Corpus Callosum, tractography
  • Corticospinal tract, tractography
  • Unfolded brain, MRI
  • Arcuate Fasiculus, tractography
  • Purkinje cells in the cerebellum
  • Brocke and Wernicke areas of brain, MRI
  • Inferior Longitudinal Fasciculus, tractography
  • 3D printed reconstruction of the arcuate fasciculus.
  • Brain: progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
  • Brain: progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
  • Brain: progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and HIV
  • Brain: progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
  • <I>Plasmodium falciparum</I> malaria: cerebral malaria
  • Page of text from Matthew Baillie, "A Series of Engravings"
  • Brain with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
  • <I>Plasmodium falciparum</I> malaria: cerebral malaria
  • Brain: progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy