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  • China and modern medicine : a study in medical missionary development / by Harold Balme ; with preface by Sir Donald MacAlister.
  • China and modern medicine : a study in medical missionary development / by Harold Balme ; with preface by Sir Donald MacAlister.
  • Physiology and biochemistry in modern medicine / by J.J.R. Macleod ; assisted by Roy G. Pearce, A.C. Redfield, and N.B. Taylor and by others.
  • Sixty centuries of health and physick : the progress of ideas from primitive magic to modern medicine / by S.G. Blaxland Stubbs and E.W. Bligh; with an introduction by Sir Humphry Rolleston, bart.
  • Sixty centuries of health and physick : the progress of ideas from primitive magic to modern medicine / by S.G. Blaxland Stubbs and E.W. Bligh; with an introduction by Sir Humphry Rolleston, bart.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Doctor : a medical penny magazine adapted for the use of clergymen, heads of families, nurses etc., containing plain rules for the prevention and cure of every disease incident to the human frame thus forming a modern domestic medicine with all the improvements in medicine and surgery up to the present time.
  • Compilation of posters from the Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health collection in the Library & Archives at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine : originally designed as a posterboard for the exhibition HIV/AIDS: controlling and eradicating a modern epidemic, 2014.
  • Compilation of posters from the Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health collection in the Library & Archives at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine : originally designed as a posterboard for the exhibition HIV/AIDS: controlling and eradicating a modern epidemic, 2014.
  • A guide to the practical physician, shewing from the most approved authors, both ancient and modern, the truest and latest way of curing all diseases, internal and external, whether by medicine, surgery, or diet ... To which is added an appendix concerning the office of a physician / Theoph. Bonet.
  • A guide to the practical physician, shewing from the most approved authors, both ancient and modern, the truest and latest way of curing all diseases, internal and external, whether by medicine, surgery, or diet ... To which is added an appendix concerning the office of a physician / Theoph. Bonet.
  • A guide to the practical physician, shewing from the most approved authors, both ancient and modern, the truest and latest way of curing all diseases, internal and external, whether by medicine, surgery, or diet ... To which is added an appendix concerning the office of a physician / Theoph. Bonet.
  • A guide to the practical physician, shewing from the most approved authors, both ancient and modern, the truest and latest way of curing all diseases, internal and external, whether by medicine, surgery, or diet ... To which is added an appendix concerning the office of a physician / Theoph. Bonet.
  • [Leaflet advertising Modern Health's range of 11 plant based medicines].
  • [Leaflet advertising Modern Health's range of 11 plant based medicines].
  • [Leaflet advertising Modern Health's range of 11 plant based medicines].
  • [Leaflet advertising Modern Health's range of 11 plant based medicines].
  • [Leaflet advertising Modern Health's range of 11 plant based medicines].
  • [Leaflet advertising Modern Health's range of 11 plant based medicines].
  • Mahonia japonica DC. Berberidaceae. Evergreen shrub. Distribution: China, although long cultivated in Japan. Listed as an ingredient in Traditional Chinese Medicines. No European or modern medicinal use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Polygonum bistorta L. Polygonaceae Bistort, snakeweed, Easter Ledges. Distribution: Europe, N & W Asia. Culpeper: “... taken inwardly resist pestilence and poison, helps ruptures, and bruises, stays fluxes, vomiting and immoderate flowing of the terms in women, helps inflammations and soreness of the mouth, and fastens loose teeth, being bruised and boiled in white wine and the mouth washed with it.” In modern herbal medicine it is still used for a similar wide variety of internal conditions, but it can also be cooked and eaten as a vegetable. The use to relieve toothache, applied as a paste to the affected tooth, seems to have been widespread. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.