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Sermons on the relative duties. Viz. Introductory Sermon on Domestic Happiness. On the Duty of Children to Parents. Parents to Children. Servants to Masters. Masters to Servants. Wives to Husbands. Husbands to Wives. Preached at Queen-Street chapel, and St. Paul's Covent-Garden. By the Rev. Tho. Francklin, D.D. Vicar of Ware in Hertfordshire, and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty.
Francklin, Thomas, 1721-1784.Date: 1770- Books
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The pin-Basket to the children of Thespis. With notes historical, critical, and biographical. By John Williams, whose public appellation is Anthony Pasquin.
Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818.Date: 1797- Books
A practical guide to the English kinder garten (children's garden), for the use of mothers, nurses, and infant teachers : being an exposition of Froebel's system of infant training, accompanied by a great variety of instructive and amusing games, and industrial and gymnastic exercises, also numerous songs, set to music and arranged to the exercises / by John & Bertha Ronge.
Ronge, Johannes, 1813-1887.Date: 1855- Pictures
The infants Romulus and Remus are found by the shepherd Faustulus in the Tiber and are brought to his house for fostering. Line engraving by R. Strange after Pietro da Cortona.
Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669.Date: [between 1750 and 1759?]Reference: 2855940i- Books
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The garden of the soul: or, a manual of spiritual exercises and instructions for Christians, who (living in the World) aspire to Devotion. By Richard Challenor, D.D. From the London copy, neatly corrected and enlarged.
Challoner, Richard, 1691-1781.Date: M,DCC,LIX. [1759]- Books
Healing gardens : therapeutic benefits and design recommendations / edited by Clare Cooper Marcus, Marni Barnes.
Date: [1999]- Pictures
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The Foundling Hospital: the main buildings seen from within the grounds. Engraving by W. Wallis after himself, 1816.
Wallis, William, 1796-Date: 1 December 1816Reference: 37823i- Pictures
Plans for the Imperial Coronation Bazaar at the Royal Botanic Gardens.
Speaight, F.W.Date: 1902Reference: 3289039i- Digital Images
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Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae Goats beard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae. Goatsbeard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae. Goatsbeard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Illicium verum Hook.f. Illiciaceae Chinese Star Anise Distribution: China. Illicium anisatum Japanese Star Anise. Distribution Japan. Illicium verum is used as a spice in Asian cooking and for Star Anise tea. The distilled oil is added to cough mixture used by children. Introduced to Europe in 1588 (Pharmacographia Indica, 1890). Illicium anisatum syn. religiosum, has been confused with it (Lindley, 1838, Bentley 1861) but is poisonous and was used to make incense in Japanese and Chinese temples. It was called Skimi by Kaempfer. The seed pods of both species contain shikimic acid (the name being derived from the Japanese word for the plant - shi-kimi) from which Tamiflu, the antiviral drug was synthesised. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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How and why : a do-it-yourself guide / by Matte Resist.
Resist, MatteDate: 2011- Pictures
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Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway Road, London: the roof garden to the Annie Zunz ward for children. Photograph, 1912.
Date: [August 1912]Reference: 28272i- Books
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Secrets worth knowing; a comedy, in five acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. By Thomas Morton, Esq. Author of Columbus, Children in the Wood, Cure for the Heart Ache, &c. &c.
Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838.Date: [1798]- Books
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Secrets worth knowing; a comedy, in five acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. By Thomas Morton, Esq. Author of Columbus, Children in the Wood, Cure for the Heart Ache, &c. &c.
Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838.Date: [1798]- Digital Images
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Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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A cure for the heart-ache; a comedy, in five acts, as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Thomas Morton, Esq. Author of Columbus, Zorinski, Way to get married, and Children in the wood.
Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838.Date: 1797- Books
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The way to get married; a comedy, in five acts, as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Thomas Morton, Esquire. Author of Columbus-Zorinski-Children in the wood, &c.
Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838.Date: 1797- Books
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The way to get married; a comedy, in five acts, as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Thomas Morton, Esquire. Author of Columbus-Zorinski-Children in the Wood, &c.
Morton, Thomas, 1764-1838.Date: 1796- Digital Images
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Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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The most natural and easy way of institution, by making a domestic education less chargeable to parents, and more easy and beneficial to children. By which method, youth may not only make a very considerable progress in languages, but also in arts and sciences, in two years. By Robert Ainsworth, author of the New dictionary, intituled, thesaurus linguL̆atinc̆ompendiarius.
Ainsworth, Robert, 1660-1743.Date: 1736- Digital Images
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Cynara cardunculus L. Asteraceae. Cardoon, Globe Artichoke, Artechokes, Scolymos cinara, Cynara, Cinara. Distribution: Southern Europe and North Africa. Lyte (1576) writes that Dodoens (1552) could find no medical use for them and Galen (c.200 AD) said they were indigestible unless cooked. However he relates that other authors recommend that if the flower heads are soaked in strong wine, they 'provoke urine and stir up lust in the body.' More prosaically, the roots boiled in wine and drunk it cause the urine to be 'stinking' and so cures smelly armpits. He adds that it strengthens the stomach so causing women to conceive Male children. He goes on to say that the young shoots boiled in broth also stir up lust in men and women, and more besides. Lyte (1576) was translating, I think with elaborations, from the chapter on Scolymos cinara, Artichaut, in Dodoen's Croydeboeck (1552) as L'Ecluse's French translation (1575) does not mention these latter uses, but Dodoen's own Latin translation, the Pemptades(1583), and Gerard's (1633) both do so. It is useful in understanding the history of these translations to realise that Gerard uses, almost verbatim, the translation of the 'smelly armpit' paragraph from Lyte. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Cynara cardunculus L. Asteraceae. Cardoon, Globe Artichoke, Artechokes, Scolymos cinara, Cynara, Cinara. Distribution: Southern Europe and North Africa. Lyte (1576) writes that Dodoens (1552) could find no medical use for them and Galen (c.200 AD) said they were indigestible unless cooked. However, he relates that other authors recommend that if the flower heads are soaked in strong wine, they 'provoke urine and stir up lust in the body.' More prosaically, the roots boiled in wine and drunk it cause the urine to be 'stinking' and so cures smelly armpits. He adds that it strengthens the stomach so causing women to conceive Male children. He goes on to say that the young shoots boiled in broth also stir up lust in men and women, and more besides. Lyte (1576) was translating, I think with elaborations, from the chapter on Scolymos cinara, Artichaut, in Dodoen's Croydeboeck (1552) as L'Ecluse's French translation, Dodoens Histoire des Plantes (1575) does not mention these latter uses, but Dodoen's own Latin translation, the Pemptades (1583), and Gerard's Herbal (1633) both do so. It is useful in understanding the history of these translations to realise that Gerard uses, almost verbatim, the translation of the 'smelly armpit' paragraph from Lyte. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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A modest defence of the charity-children and the common plan of charity-schools vindicated and recommended. In two dialogues Between A Gentleman and his Gardener and Theronius and Humanus. Occasioned By a projected Scheme for Erecting a House of Industry for Children of the Poor in the Parish of Hackney. By John Wingfield.
Wingfield, John, active 1772.Date: M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]