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  • Canine head, dissected to reveal the salivary glands
  • Antique brain tissue, St Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington DC
  • Carthamus tinctorius L. Asteraceae. Safe Flower, False Saffron - Distribution: W. Asia. Dioscorides (in Beck, 2003) notes the seeds as a purgative, but also advises it made up with 30 figs, which must have helped. Gerard (1640) calls it Atractylis flore luteo the yellow distaffe thistle. and follows Dioscorides in its uses, but does get the reader confused with Cnicus benedictus, calling both plants 'wild bastard saffron'. Culpeper makes no mention of it in his early works, but later (1826) have the following: ‘Wild Saffon, or Saf-flower ... accounted a pretty strong cathartic [causing diarrhoea and vomiting], evacuating tough viscid phlegm, both upwards and downwards, and by that means is said to clear the lungs, and help the phthisic [now equated with tuberculosis]. It is likewise serviceable against the jaundice
  • Canine head, dissected to reveal the salivary glands
  • Bovine kidneys
  • Hornfaced bee (Osmia cornifrons) stinger
  • Silk moth antenna
  • Mosquito (unknown species)
  • Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)
  • Physalis alkekengi L. Rosaceae Chinese lantern, Winter Cherry, Bladder Cherry Distribution: C & S Europe, W. Asia to Japan Culpeper: In his English Physitian of 1652 writes: Winter Cherry ... are of great use in physic ...’ and recommends them for almost all kidney and urinary problems. In particular he seems to advocate the use of green berries in beer, for preventing kidney stones lodging in the ureters. It is called ‘aikakengi’ in the College’s Pharmacopoeia Londinensis of 1618. Belonging to the family Solanaceae, all its parts are poisonous except the ripe fruit. The green fruit and the rest of the plant contain atropinic compounds and will produce a dry mouth, rapid heart beat, hallucinations, coma and death if enough is taken. As the atropine is only present in the unripe fruit eating one will make the mouth go dry (and it has the most unpleasant taste), but it will also relax the smooth muscle in the wall of the ureter which helps passage of ureteric stones. Culpeper’s observations on its usefulness are supported by more modern observations. When ripe, the orange fruit inside its skeletal outer ‘lantern’ is edible, free of atropine, and delicious. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • House fly (Musca domestica)
  • Mouse brain capillaries, SEM
  • Pollen grains, Agapanthus, SEM
  • Human mustache hair
  • Human brain cancer stem cells, SEM
  • Fetus and discoid placenta, monkey
  • Tick
  • Few-layer graphene, SEM
  • Woodlouse, SEM
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Hair brain sculpture
  • Streptococci gordonii biofilm grown on a dental restorative; imaged by scanning electron microscopy.
  • Canine pregnant uterus
  • Antique brain tissue, St Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington DC
  • Tick
  • Brain astrocyte cell taking up carbon nano-needles, SEM
  • Brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys)
  • Rat neurones, SEM
  • Cow tongue with parasitic tapeworm cysts
  • Woodlouse, SEM