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The questyonary of cyrurgyens : with the formulary of lytell Guydo in cyrurgie, with the spectacles of cyrurgyens newly added, with the fourth boke of the Terapentyke [sic], or methode curatyfe of Claude Galyen prynce of physyciens, with a synguler treaty of the cure of vlceres, newely enprynted at London, by me Robert wyer, and be for to sell in Poules Churcheyarde, at the sygne of Judyth. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.
Guy, de Chauliac, approximately 1300-1368Date: [1542]- Archives and manuscripts
MOUNTENEY WELLCOME
Date: 1903-1958Reference: WA/HSW/MOPart of: Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)- Books
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Compendium pharmaceuticum : militaribus gallorum nosocomiis, in orbo novo boreali adscriptum.
Coste, Jean-François, 1741-1819.Date: MDCCLXXX [1780]- Books
Medical education and clinical research in the 21st century : when you don't know what you want and you don't know what it costs, who will pay? : report of a conference of the New York Academy of Sciences, October 18-19, 1999 / edited by Susan U. Raymond, Henry M. Greenberg.
Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
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The physicians of the last century : a lecture introductory to the course at the Philadelphia Association for Medical Instruction, delivered on Monday, March 23, 1857 / by J. Da Costa ; published by the class.
Da Costa, J. M. (Jacob Mendes), 1833-1900.Date: 1857- Books
Daemonis mimica in magiae progressv tvm in sectis errorvm qvorvm avthor est. V. illvstrissimo Nicolao Brvlardo, Domino de Sileri, Franciae Cancellario meritisimo / Henrici a Monteacvto.
Montagu, Henry de, Sieur de La Coste, active 1612.Date: 1612- Books
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Daemonis mimica in magiae progressv tvm in sectis errorvm qvorvm avthor est. V. illvstrissimo Nicolao Brvlardo, Domino de Sileri, Franciae Cancellario meritisimo / Henrici a Monteacvto.
Montagu, Henry de, sieur de La Coste.Date: 1612- Books
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A compendious statement of the nature and cost of certain sewage processes / by Major-General Scott.
Scott Henry Young Darracott.Date: 1875- Archives and manuscripts
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'General including rent of safe with Trustees Corp'
Date: 1916-1923Reference: WA/HSW/LE/B.1Part of: Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)- Digital Images
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Taxus baccata L. Taxaceae European Yew. Trees are feminine in Latin, so while Taxus has a masculine ending (-us), its specific name, baccata (meaning 'having fleshy berries' (Stearn, 1994)), agrees with it in gender by having a female ending ( -a). Distribution: Europe. Although regarded as poisonous since Theophrastus, Gerard and his school friends used to eat the red berries (they are technically called 'arils') without harm. Johnson clearly ate the fleshy arils and spat out the seed, which is as poisonous as the leaves. It is a source of taxol, an important chemotherapeutic agent for breast and other cancers. It was first extracted from the bark of T. brevifolia, the Pacific yew tree, in 1966. About 1,100 kg of bark produces 10 g of taxol, and 360,000 trees a year would have been required for the needs of the USA – an unsustainable amount. In 1990 a precursor of taxol was extracted from the needles of the European yew so saving the Pacific trees. It is now produced in fermentation tanks from cell cultures of Taxus. Curiously, there is a fungus, Nodulisporium sylviforme, which lives on the yew tree, that also produces taxol. Because taxol stops cell division, it is also used in the stents that are inserted to keep coronary arteries open. Here it inhibits – in a different way, but like anti-fouling paint on the bottom of ships – the overgrowth of endothelial cells that would otherwise eventually block the tube. The economic costs of anticancer drugs are significant. Paclitaxel ‘Taxol’ for breast cancer costs (2012) £246 every 3 weeks
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
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Self-providence v. dependence upon charity. An essay on dispensaries. Addressed to such of the subscribers as desire that what they give should produce the greatest possible benefit to those whom they wish to befriend : shewing that at a much smaller cost a much greater amount of good might be effected and that a very large proportion of the income of these institutions is not merely needleessly, but injuriously expended / by P.H. Holland.
Holland, P. H. (Philip Henry)Date: 1838- Digital Images
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Solanum laciniatum Aiton Solanaceae. Kangaroo Apple. Evergreen shrub. Distribution: New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. It contains steroidal saponins that can be converted into steroids, including progesterone, oestrogens, cortisone, prednisolone etc. In 1943, Professor Russell Marker discovered a method of obtaining an unsaturated steroidal saponine, diosogenin, from Mexican yam (Dioscorea mexicana), which can easily and cheaply be converted into steroids, such as prednisone and progesterone, reducing the price of steroid production to a fraction (0.5%) of its former cost. For 20 years drug companies showed little interest, and it was only as a result of Professor Marker forming his own company, and the concerted efforts of several gynaecologists, physiologists and birth-control advocates, that the contraceptive pill was ‘born’ in 1960. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
The Changing economics of medical technology / Annetine C. Gelijns and Ethan A. Halm, editors ; Committee on Technological Innovation in Medicine, Institute of Medicine.
Date: 1991- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome's Memorandum Book 1893 [Travelling Letter Book]
Date: Jun - Dec 1893Reference: WF/E/01/02/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
[Dale-D-Costa]
Date: 1913-1922Reference: WA/BSR/BA/Cor/A.14Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 1 ['HSW Private No.1']
Date: Aug 1882-Mar 1888Reference: WF/E/01/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 2 ['HSW Private No.2' with key]
Date: 17 Apr 1888 - May 1890Reference: WF/E/01/01/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway Road, London: a proposed tower for the St. David's wing, Manor Gardens. Process print after C. Holden, 1921.
Holden, Charles Henry, 1875-1960.Date: February 1921Reference: 25547i- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence concerning the distribution of replicas of the Gold Medal from Henry Wellcome
Date: 1929-1939Reference: WF/E/07/04/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
St. Thomas's Hospital, London: anatomical museum
Cooper, Astley (Astley Paston), Sir, 1768-1841.Date: 1803-1829Reference: MS.7804- Archives and manuscripts
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Travelling Letter Book
Date: Dec 1901 - Mar 1902Reference: WF/E/01/02/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Ephemera
Songsheets (general) : Box 1.