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The neurological examination of the child with minor nervous dysfunction / Bert C.L. Touwen, Heinz F.R. Prechtl.
Touwen, B. C. L. (Bert Christiaan Louis)Date: 1970- Books
Les sciences morphologiques médicales à Strasbourg du XVe au XXe siècle : À l'occasion du 350e anniversaire de la création de la chaire d'anatomie, 1652-2002 / Jean-Marie Le Minor.
Le Minor, Jean-Marie.Date: 2002- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence: Thurstone, L. L.
Date: 1937Reference: PSY/SPE/1/6/22Part of: Spearman, Charles Edward (1863-1945)- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence: Thurston, L. L.
Date: 1938Reference: PSY/SPE/1/4/25Part of: Spearman, Charles Edward (1863-1945)- Books
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New elements of operative surgery / by Alf. A.L.M. Velpeau, carefully revised, entirely remodelled, and augmented with a treatise on minor surgery ; illustrated by over 300 engravings, incorporated with the text, accompanied with an atlas in quarto of twenty-two plates, representing the principal operative processes, surgical instruments ; translated by P.S. Townsend. Augmented by the addition of several hundred pages of entirely new matter, comprising all the latest improvements and discoveries in surgery, in America and Europe, up to the present time. Under the supervision of, and with notes and observations by Valentine Moth.
Velpeau, A. (Alfred), 1795-1867.Date: 1845-1847- Books
Elements of early modern physics / J.L. Heilbron.
Heilbron, J. L.Date: [1982], ©1982- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence: Billings, M. L.
Date: 1932Reference: PSY/SPE/1/4/4Part of: Spearman, Charles Edward (1863-1945)- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence: Reymert, Martin L.
Date: 1923-1924Reference: PSY/SPE/1/6/15Part of: Spearman, Charles Edward (1863-1945)- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence: Kelley, Truman L
Date: 1922-1926Reference: PSY/SPE/1/6/10Part of: Spearman, Charles Edward (1863-1945)- Archives and manuscripts
'T. T. L.'
Date: 1978-1980Reference: PSY/BPS/1/4/7/2/23Part of: British Psychological Society Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Suggested Insertions and Corrections
Date: c.1932Reference: PENROSE/2/18/2/4Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Zangwill O. L. papers
Zangwill Oliver Louis (1913-1987)Date: 1941-1945Reference: PSY/BPS/4/1/7Part of: British Psychological Society Archive- Books
Minorities in science : the challenge for change in biomedicine / edited by Vijaya L. Melnick and Franklin D. Hamilton.
Date: [1977], ©1977- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence with Richard L. Gregory
Date: 1981-1983Reference: PSY/BRD/5Part of: Broadbent, Donald- Pictures
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A plant (Corypha minor Jacq.) related to talipot palm: flowering stem with separate seedling, fruit and flower. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 17968i- Books
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Dissertation sur la cause de la lumiere des phosphores et des noctiluques. : Qui a remporté le prix à l'Academie Royale des Belles Lettres, Sciences et Arts de Bordeaux, pour l'année 1717 / Par Mr. Dortous de Mayran.
Mairan, Dortous de, 1678-1771.Date: M.D.CC.XVII- Archives and manuscripts
Reference material 'Vol. IXb Training L-P': Lewes - Plato
Date: c.1900-1940Reference: PSY/SPE/2/20Part of: Spearman, Charles Edward (1863-1945)- Archives and manuscripts
The Shaping of Modern Psychology, Hearnshaw, L. S.
Date: 1989Reference: PSY/KEN/9/8/3Part of: Kenna, John Corbett- Archives and manuscripts
Reference material 'Vol. I L-M': Ladd and Woodworth - Myers
Date: c.1900-1940Reference: PSY/SPE/2/4Part of: Spearman, Charles Edward (1863-1945)- Pictures
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The tomb of Sultan Mehmed I in his mausoleum (the Green tomb) at Brusa, Turkey. Engraving by G. Presbury after W.H. Leitch after T. Allom, ca. 1836.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872.Date: [1836?]Reference: 579329i- Digital Images
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Prunella vulgaris L. Lamiaceae Self Heal, Carpenter’s Herb, Sicklewort, Consolida minor. Distribution: Europe. Culpeper (1650): ‘See Bugle. So shall I not need to write the same thing twice, the vertues being the same.’ Under Bugle he writes: ‘Bugula. Bugle or middle Comfrey ... excellent for falls or inward bruises, for it dissolves congealed blood, profitable for inward wounds, helps the rickets and other stoppings of the Liver, outwardly it is of wonderful force in curing wounds and ulcers, though festered, as also gangrenes and fistulas, it helps broken bones and dislocations. To conclude, let my countrymen esteem it as a Jewel...’ Bugle is Ajuga reptans which has the same creeping habit, but is in another genus. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Hypericum olympicum L. Clusiaceae. Mount Olympus St John's wort. Deciduous perennial herb. Distribution Greece, Asia minor. This is not the plant used for mood disturbances in herbal medicine which is Hypericum perforatum. However, all the 370 species of Hypericum are called 'St John's Wort' so a potential for confusion exists. It shares some of the chemicals thought to be active in Hypericum perforatum. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia.[he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’]. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia [he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and reverses the constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Iris graminea L. Iridaceae Grass-leaved flag. Flower de Luce. Distribution: Central and Southern Europe. This is probably the Iris bulbosa minor sive angustifolia [the lesser bulbed or narrow-leaved Iris], Lesser bulbed Flower de luce of Parkinson (1640). He advised that the properties of all Flag Irises were more or less the same, but says there is no agreement about the properties of the bulbous kinds (such as this plant). Of the Flag Irises, Culpeper (1650) writes that the roots 'resist poison, help shortness of the breath, prove the terms [menstruation]
Dr Henry Oakeley