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  • The expression of the emotions in man and animals / by Charles Darwin.
  • The expression of the emotions in man and animals / by Charles Darwin.
  • The expression of the emotions in man and animals / by Charles Darwin.
  • Hatred and anger from Darwin's Expression of Emotions in Man..
  • C. Darwin, On the Expression of Emotions in
  • The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex / by Charles Darwin, with illustrations.
  • The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex / by Charles Darwin, with illustrations.
  • The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex / by Charles Darwin, with illustrations.
  • The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex / by Charles Darwin, with illustrations.
  • An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables; and from the former to the latter / By Charles White.
  • An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables; and from the former to the latter / By Charles White.
  • An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables; and from the former to the latter / By Charles White.
  • An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables; and from the former to the latter / By Charles White.
  • Beast and man in India : a popular sketch of Indian animals in their relations with the people / by John Lockwood Kipling.
  • Beast and man in India : a popular sketch of Indian animals in their relations with the people / by John Lockwood Kipling.
  • Beast and man in India : a popular sketch of Indian animals in their relations with the people / by John Lockwood Kipling.
  • Beast and man in India : a popular sketch of Indian animals in their relations with the people / by John Lockwood Kipling.
  • Beast and man in India : a popular sketch of Indian animals in their relations with the people / by John Lockwood Kipling.
  • A blinding light descends on Eden in the creation of man and the animals. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • Humans shown in their relationships with their pet animals, including a man trying to teach his crow the principles of language and children snail racing. Coloured lithograph.
  • Illustration emphasizing the ancient pseudo-science of physiognomy which tries to determine a man's character from his outward resemble to animals. In this illustration is shown the traits of a male and an dog
  • The evolution of a cat into an old woman, and her stool into a dog into a man in a cage into her skirt; representing Darwin's theories. Wood engraving after C. Bennett, 1863.
  • Valeriana officinalis L. Valerianaceae Valerianus, Phu, Nardus sylvestris, Setwal. Distribution: Europe. Popular herbalism attributes sedation to Valerian, but this is not mentioned by Coles (1657) or Gerard (1633) or Lobel (1576) or Lyte (1578) or Dioscorides (ex Gunther, 1959) or Fuchs (1553), where he quotes Pliny, Dioscorides and Galen, or Parkinson (1640), or Pomet (1712). The English translation of Tournefort (1719-1730) covers a whole page of the uses of all the different valerians, but never mentions sedation or treating anxiety. Quincy (1718) does not mention it. Because it was used in epilepsy, for which Woodville (1792) says it was useless, Haller, in his Historia stirpium indegenarum Helvetae inchoatae (1768) advocates it for those with irritability of the nervous system, as does Thomson's London Dispensatory (1811) although he lists it as an 'antispasmodic and stimulant' and for inducing menstruation. Lindley (1838) notes (as many did) that the roots smell terrible and that this makes cats excited, and in man, in large doses, induce 'scintillations, agitation and even convulsions' so used in asthenic fever, epilepsy, chorea, hysteria and as an antihelminthic.' Fluckiger & Hanbury (1879) give a wonderful account of the history of its names, but give its use as 'stimulant and antispasmodic' as do Barton & Castle (1877). but by 1936 (Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia) its only use was 'Given in hysterical and neurotic conditions as a sedative. Its action has been attributed to its unpleasant smell'. The European Medicines Agency (2006) approves its use as a traditional herbal medicine for mild anxiety and sleeplessness for up to 4 weeks. Despite what is written continuously about its use in ancient Greece and Rome, the only reason for its use has been because it was thought, for a brief while, to be good for epilepsy and therefore might deal with persons of a nervous disposition because of its foul smell. It has been suggested that even its Greek name, 'Phu' came from the expression of disgust which is made when one sniffs an unpleasant odour. For 1,800 years, before the last century, no-one had thought it sedative. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A group of men in a public house, one points to a wound on his arm as the others look at him with shocked expressions and a man and woman watch from the background. Etching.
  • The breviarie of health: vvherin doth folow, remedies for all maner of sicknesses & diseases, the which may be in man or woman / Expressing the obscure termes of Greke, Araby, Latin, Barbary, and English, concerning phisick and chirurgerie. Compyled by Andrew Boord, doctor of phisicke: an English-man. Now newly corrected and amended, with some approued medicines that neuer were in print before this impression, & are aptly placed in their proper chapters, by men skilfull in phisicke and chirurgerie.
  • Adam and Eve conceal their nakedness; in the distance they receive clothes from God. Line engraving by J. Haeyler after C. van den Broeck.
  • Adam and Eve are driven from Eden by an angel. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • C. Darwin, On the Expression of the Emotions
  • C. Darwin, On the Expression of the Emotions
  • Darwin and modern science : essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the Origin of species / edited for the Cambridge Philosophical society and the syndics of the University press, by A.C. Seward.