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Diseased skin and boils on the hands, head and leg of a woman, showing symptoms of 'pustular itch'. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1866.
D'Alton, Christopher, active 1847-1871.Date: 1866Reference: 574623i- Ephemera
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Have handy Sherriffs Ointment : the great cure for eczema, erysipelas, herpes, nettlerash, itch, bad legs, old sores, cuts. It is healing, soothing and antiseptic / Alexander Sherriffs.
Sherriffs, Alexander.Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]- Digital Images
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Scabiosa columbaria L. Dipsacaceae. Small scabious. Distribution: Europe. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘The roots either boiled or beaten into powder and so taken, helps such as are extremely troubled with scabs and itch, are medicinal in the French-pocks [syphilis], hard swellings, inward wounds ...’ The genus name comes from the Latin word scabies, meaning ‘itch’. According to the Doctrine of Signatures, the rough leaves indicated that it would cure eczematous skin. However, the leaves are not really very rough... Not used in herbal medicine at the present time except in Southern Africa where it is used for colic and heartburn, and the roots made into an ointment for curing wounds (van Wyk, 2000). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Ephemera
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Had an itch, ignored it, got worse, where's that number? What will they think? : ......Pheew! Wasn't too bad, needed treatment, no lasting harm, so glad I went ... / Health Education Authority.
Date: 1997- Books
An astronomical diary: or almanack, for the year of Christian Aera, 1781. ... Containing, the lunations; ... a safe and easy cure for the itch; ... rules for preserving health in eating and drinking / ... By Nathanael Low.
Date: [1780]- Books
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Medicina gymnastica: or, every man his own physician, or, a treatise concerning the power of exercise, with respect to the animal oeconomy and the great necessity of it in the cure of several distempers. Viz, the consumption, dropsy, hypochondria, the itch, and other cutaneous irruptions / [Francis Fuller].
Fuller, Francis, 1670-1706.Date: 1740- Books
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A compendious treatise of the diseases of the skin, From the slightest itchinghumour in particular parts only, to the most inveterate itch, stubborn scabbiness, and confirmed leprosy. Plainly describing their symptoms, nature, dependance on each other, original cause, and dismal consequence to the patients and their posterity, if neglected or mismanaged. Also the dangerous effects of quicksilver girdles, ointments, washes, and other pernicious mercurial medicines. Discovering the true and only certain method of curing those distempers with safety, ease and expedition, and without the use of daubing ointments, brimstone, or other nauseous and ill smelling remedies, confinement of the patient, disorder of the body, or knowledge of the nearest friend. The whole illustrated with several extraordinary cases, and very remarkable cures perform'd by the author. Necessary to be read by all persons, but more especially those who are unhappily troubled with the itch, or any other cutaneous distemper. By T. S.
Spooner, Thomas, of Lemon Street.Date: 1721- Books
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A short account of the itch, inveterate itching humours, scabbiness and leprosie ... describing their symptoms ... and ... cure ... Shewing that it may be ... accomplished without the ... use of brimstone ... also the ... danger of those afflicted with ... fallling into the palsie, apoplexy ... &c. by ill methods of cure, and pernicious mercurial medicines / By T.S.
Spooner, Thomas.Date: 1714- Books
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A short account of the itch, inveterate itching humours, scabbiness and leprosie ... describing their symptoms ... and ... cure ... Shewing that it may be ... accomplished without the ... use of brimstone ... also the ... danger of those afflicted with ... fallling into the palsie, apoplexy ... &c. by ill methods of cure, and pernicious mercurial medicines / By T.S.
Spooner, Thomas.Date: 1715- Ephemera
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Summer itches, bites & stings : their treatment and relief : Lanacane.
Date: [1993]- Digital Images
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Helleborus x hybridus Hort. Ex Vilmorin Ranunculaceae. A range of hybrids from Helleborus orientalis the Oriental hellebore. Distribution: Europe through to the Caucasus. All very poisonous. Culpeper (1650) says: “The roots (boiled in vinegar) ... be an admirable remedy against inveterate scabs, itch and leprosy, the same helps the toothache, being held in the mouth
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Helleborus x hybridus Hort. Ex Vilmorin Ranunculaceae. A range of hybrids from Helleborus orientalis the Oriental hellebore. Distribution: Europe through to the Caucasus. All very poisonous. Culpeper (1650) says: “The roots (boiled in vinegar) ... be an admirable remedy against inveterate scabs, itch and leprosy, the same helps the toothache, being held in the mouth: dropped into the ears, helpeth deafness coming of melancholy and noises in the ears
Dr Henry Oakeley- 3-D Objects
A dog scratching its ear. Bronze sculpture, 1993.
Date: 1993Reference: 24569i- Books
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Treatise of the venereal disease : wherein its cause, nature, signs, dangerous effects; various ways of receiving, symptoms first discovering, and infallible method of preventing its infection; together with the best, most cheap, safe, speedy, easy, and private methods of cure, are set forth. The complication of the venereal disease, with the scurvy, itch, king's-evil, rheumatism, &c. is here particularly treated of. How mercury cures this disease; and by what method and medicines persons injur'd by mercury, may be reliev'd, is here discover'd. As also the cause and cure of old gleets in men, and the whites in women. / Authore J. Spinkle.
Spinke, JohnDate: 1710- Ephemera
In Grays-Inn-Lane in Plow-Yard, the third door, lives Dr. Thomas Kirleus, a collegiate physician, and sworn physician in ordinary to King Charles the second, until his death : who with a drink and a pill (hindring no business) undertakes to cure any ulcers, sores, swellings in the nose, face, or other parts, scabs, itch, scurfs, leprosies, and venereal disease, expecting nothing until the cure be finished ... a better purger than which was never given, for they cleanse the body of all impurities, which are the causes of dropsies, gouts, scurvies, stone or gravel, pains in the head, and other parts ... he cures all fevers and hot distempers without bleeding, except in few bodies. He gives his opinion to all that writes or comes for nothing.
Kirleus, ThomasDate: 1693- Digital Images
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Nigella sativa L. Ranunculaceae Love-in-the-mist, Black Cumin, Nutmeg flower, Roman Coriander. Distribution: SW Asia. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘Nigella seeds, boyled in oil, and the forehead anointed with it, ease pains in the head, take away leprosie, itch, scurf, and helps scald-heads, inwardly taken they expel worms, they provoke urine and the terms, help difficulty of breathing: the smoke of them (being burned) drives away serpents and venomous beasts.’ The seeds are used as a spice, but as might be expected as a member of the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercups, the plant contains a highly poisonous glycoside, in this case called melanthin. The amount of toxicity present in spices is clearly insufficient to cause problems when used as such. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Nigella sativa L. Ranunculaceae Love-in-the-mist, Black Cumin, Nutmeg flower, Roman Coriander. Distribution: SW Asia. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘Nigella seeds, boyled in oil, and the forehead anointed with it, ease pains in the head, take away leprosie, itch, scurf, and helps scald-heads, inwardly taken they expel worms, they provoke urine and the terms, help difficulty of breathing: the smoke of them (being burned) drives away serpents and venomous beasts.’ The seeds are used as a spice, but as might be expected as a member of the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercups, the plant contains a highly poisonous glycoside, in this case called melanthin. The amount of toxicity present in spices is clearly insufficient to cause problems when used as such. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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A letter from an apothecary in London, to his friend in the country, concerning the present practice of physick : in regard to empiricks, empirical methods of cure, and nostrums. With remarks on Dr. Mead's, Mr. Freke's, and Mr. Cheselden's method of cure for the itch, by externals only ... Also some observations upon manna ... with remarks on Dr. Mead's certain cure for the bite of a mad dog.
Date: 1752- Books
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A letter from an apothecary in London, to his friend in the country; concerning the present practice of physick, in regard to empiricks, empirical methods of cure, and nostrums. With remarks on Dr. Meads, Mr. Freke's, and Mr. Cheselden's method of cure for the itch, by externals only; setting forth the Dangerous Consequences of such a Method, if adhered to indiscriminately. Also some observations upon manna, shewing it to be a Composition though commonly supposed a Natural Production; with remarks on Dr. Mead's certain cure for the bite of a mad dog.
P. L.Date: [1752]- Books
Hythe Hospital : a war memorial remembered / [Pam Whittington].
Whittington, Pam.Date: [1991], ©1991- Books
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Medicaster medicatus, or, A remedy for the itch of scribling. The first part : written by a country practitioner in a letter to one of the town, and by him prefaced and published for cure of John Brown, one of His late Majesties ordinary chyrurgeons, containing an account of that vain plagiary and remarks on his several writings : wherein his many thefts, contradictions, absurdities gross errors, ignorance, and mistakes are displayed and divers vulgar errors in cyrurgery and anatomy refuted / by James Young.
Yonge, James, 1647-1721Date: 1685- Pictures
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A Scottish sheriff, advertising Sherriffs ointment for skin diseases. Colour lithograph.
Alexander Sherriffs (Troon, Scotland)Date: [1900?]Reference: 44271i- Archives and manuscripts
"The itching skin", lecture to the Hunterian Society, 1959
Date: 1959Reference: GC/46/F/18Part of: Hunt, Thomas Cecil- Archives and manuscripts
M0009281: Four illustration: polyps, itching, epilepsy and dysentery
Date: 29 October 1945- Archives and manuscripts
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M0003820: Illustration of a human hand covered in mite bites
Date: 27 March 1934Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/31/78Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive