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  • William Foster White. Line engraving by J. C. Armytage after J. P. Knight.
  • The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I, including a gentleman usher with a white rod and the French Ambassador. Engraving by J. Basire after William Camden, 1791.
  • A physician stirring medicine in a cup which is refused by a repulsed little girl, her mother stands behind her smiling. Mezzotint by J. Jervis, 1842, after W. White.
  • A physician stirring medicine in a cup which is refused by a repulsed little girl, her mother stands behind her smiling. Mezzotint by J. Jervis, 1842, after W. White.
  • 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.
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts : By His Excellency, Henry J. Gardner, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and praise ... Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of November next ... Given at the Council chamber, in Boston, this twenty-third day of October ... one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five ... / Henry J. Gardner, governor, with the advice of the Council ; Ephraim M. Wright, secretary.
  • Annual report for the year 1929-30 : 32nd year of issue adopted by the Board on 29 March 1930 / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
  • Queen Victoria, seated in an armchair by an open fire, day-dreaming about illustrious men of her reign. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1887.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Medical world : gallery of contemporaries in the field of medical science / author: Anton Mansch.
  • Adenochoiradelogia, or, An anatomick-chirurgical treatise of glandules & strumaes, or Kings-Evil-swellings : Together with the royal gift of healing, or cure thereof by contact or imposition of hands, performed for above 640 years by our Kings of England, continued with their admirable effects, and miraculous events; and concluded with many wonderful examples of cures by their sacred touch / All which are succinctly described by John Browne.
  • Adenochoiradelogia, or, An anatomick-chirurgical treatise of glandules & strumaes, or Kings-Evil-swellings : Together with the royal gift of healing, or cure thereof by contact or imposition of hands, performed for above 640 years by our Kings of England, continued with their admirable effects, and miraculous events; and concluded with many wonderful examples of cures by their sacred touch / All which are succinctly described by John Browne.
  • John Wesley. Mezzotint by J. Faber, junior, 1743, after J. Williams.
  • John Wesley. Mezzotint by J. Faber, junior, 1743, after J. Williams.
  • Port Said, Egypt: a quarantine station. Wood engraving by W. Kemp after J.N. Schönberg, 1882.
  • Francesco Ravai, called il Bajocco, a dwarf. Watercolour.
  • Lovers sitting in a wood. Colour lithograph, 18--.
  • Lovers sitting in a wood. Colour lithograph, 18--.
  • The assumption of Queen Victoria. Photogravure, 1902, after A. Drummond, 1901.