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Isaac Vossius (1618-1689), between science and scholarship / edited by Eric Jorink and Dirk van Miert.
Date: 2012- Books
De snijkunst verbeeld : Delftse anatomische lessen nader belicht : beschrijving van de vier Delftse anatomische lessen en een overzicht van de gezondheidszorg in Delft en haar beoefenaren in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw / redactie: Hans Houtzager, Michiel Jonker ; tekstbijdragen, Hans Houtzager [and three others].
Date: [2002]- Pictures
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A woman breast feeding her baby in the family's home and workshop; perhaps a comparison to the Holy Family. Engraving by J. Le Bas and P. Martini, 1772, after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.Date: 1772Reference: 17426i- Pictures
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A Flemish surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by J. Daullé after D. Teniers, the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [1760]Reference: 22581i- Books
Deaf, dumb & brilliant : Johannes Thopas, master draughtsman / Rudi Ekkart.
Ekkart, Rudolf E. O.Date: 2014- Books
Medicine and magic in Elizabethan London : Simon Forman - astrologer, alchemist, and physician / Lauren Kassell.
Kassell, Lauren.Date: 2005- Pictures
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A man sits on a stool smoking a pipe, behind a man relieves himself against the wall. Engraving by P. Chenu, 1754, after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [1754]Reference: 24719i- Books
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Letters written by eminent persons in the 17th and 18th centuries : to which are added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of eminent men / by John Aubrey, esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations.
Aubrey, John, 1626-1697.Date: 1813- Videos
Rebel physician : Nicholas Culpeper's fight for medical freedom.
Date: 2008- Pictures
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A woman in a pharmacy with a urine flask and a monkey holding an empty flask at a casement. Oil painting by Willem Joseph Laquy, 1780 (?), after J. Toorenvliet, 1677.
Toornvliet, Jacob, 1635-1719.Date: 1780Reference: 47376i- Pictures
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Electricity: condenser jars, an electro-static generator, and a vase with flowers. Gouache painting.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 47533i- Digital Images
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Cirsium rivulare 'Atropurpureum'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
English Miscellany, 17th-19th centuries
Date: 1644-1848Reference: MS.8797- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera : Pre-1850. Box 1.
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Civic and medical worlds in early modern England : performing barbery and surgery / Eleanor Decamp.
Decamp, Eleanor Sian, 1984-Date: [2016]- Digital Images
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Zantedeschia aethiopica (L)Spreng. Calla lily, Arum lily. Half hardy annual. Distribution: South Africa. The genus name commemorates Giovanni Zantedeschi (1773-1846) an Italian physician and botanist. Born in Molina he studied medicine in Verona and Padua. He corresponded with the German botanist, Kurt Sprengel, who named the genus Zantedeschia in his honour in 1826, separating it from Calla, where, as C. aethiopica, it had been previously described by Linnaeus. He had broad interests, including the effect of different parts of the spectrum of light on plant growth, reporting in 1843, that red, orange and yellow light are heliotropically inactive. The botanic museum in Molina is dedicated to his memory. Aethiopica, merely means 'African'. The leaves are used as a warm poultice for headaches in ‘muthi’ medicine. It has become an invasive weed in parts of Australia. It was introduced, as a greenhouse plant, to Europe in the mid-17th century, where the long lasting flowers are popular in flower arranging and for weddings and funerals – a curious combination (Oakeley, 2012). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
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Pseudo-Serapion, Liber aggregatus in medicinis simplicibus, in Italian, imperfect at the end
Ibn Wafid (d. 1067) of ToledoDate: Mid 15th centuryReference: MS.746- Videos
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William Harvey and the circulation of the blood.
Date: 1978- Archives and manuscripts
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Compendium of medical and surgical texts (Miscellanea Medica XXIV)
Date: Early 15th CenturyReference: MS.550Part of: Bacon Frank Manuscript Collection, and associated material- Archives and manuscripts
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Miscellany of practical medicine, in Italian
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.Date: Late 14th CenturyReference: MS.307- Digital Images
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Atropa belladonna L. Solanaceae. Deadly nightshade. Dwale. Morella, Solatrum, Hound's berries, Uva lupina, Cucubalus, Solanum lethale. Atropa derives from Atropos the oldest of the three Fates of Greek mythology who cut the thread of Life (her sisters Clotho and Lachesis spun and measured the thread, respectively). belladonna, literally, means 'beautiful lady' and was the Italian name for it. Folklore has it that Italian ladies put drops from the plant or the fruits in their eyes to make themselves doe-eyed, myopic and beautiful. However, this is not supported by the 16th and 17th century literature, where no mention is ever made of dilated pupils (or any of the effects of parasympathetic blockade). Tournefort (1719) says 'The Italians named this plant Belladonna, which in their language signifies a beautiful woman, because the ladies use it much in the composition of their Fucus [rouge or deceit or cosmetic] or face paint.' Parkinson says that the Italian ladies use the distilled juice as a fucus '... peradventure [perhaps] to take away their high colour and make them looke paler.' I think it more likely that they absorbed atropine through their skin and were slightly 'stoned' and disinhibited, which made them beautiful ladies in the eyes of Italian males. Distribution: Europe, North Africa, western Asia. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Solanum. Nightshade: very cold and dry, binding … dangerous given inwardly … outwardly it helps the shingles, St Antonie's Fire [erysipelas] and other hot inflammation.' Most of the 16th, 17th and 18th century herbals recommend it topically for breast cancers. Poisonous plants were regarded as 'cold' plants as an excess of them caused death and the body became cold. They were regarded as opposing the hot humour which kept us warm and alive. Poultices of Belladonna leaves are still recommended for muscle strain in cyclists, by herbalists. Gerard (1633) writes that it: 'causeth sleep, troubleth the mind, bringeth madnesse if a few of the berries be inwardly taken, but if more be taken they also kill...'. He was also aware that the alkaloids could be absorbed through the skin for he notes that a poultice of the leaves applied to the forehead, induces sleep, and relieves headache. The whole plant contains the anticholinergic alkaloid atropine, which blocks the peripheral actions of acetylcholine in the parasympathetic nervous system. Atropine is a racemic mixture of d- and l- hyoscyamine. Atropine, dropped into the eyes, blocks the acetylcholine receptors of the pupil so it no longer constricts on exposure to bright light - so enabling an ophthalmologist to examine the retina with an ophthalmoscope. Atropine speeds up the heart rate, reduces salivation and sweating, reduces gut motility, inhibits the vertigo of sea sickness, and is used to block the acetylcholine receptors to prevent the effects of organophosphorous and other nerve gas poisons. It is still has important uses in medicine. Atropine poisoning takes three or for days to wear off, and the hallucinations experienced by its use are described as unpleasant. We have to be content with 'madness', 'frenzie' and 'idle and vain imaginations' in the early herbals to describe the hallucinations of atropine and related alkaloids as the word 'hallucination' in the sense of a perception for which there is no external stimulus, was not used in English until 1646 (Sir T. Browne, 1646). It is a restricted herbal medicine which can only be sold in premises which are registered pharmacies and by or under the supervision of a pharmacist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
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Pseudo-Mesue, Opera, in Italian
Date: c. 1460-1475Reference: MS.492- Archives and manuscripts
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
Date: May-Nov 1977Reference: WTI/SGB/A.25/5Part of: Browne, Stanley George, CMG, OBE, MD, FRCS, FRCP, DTM (1907-1986)- Archives and manuscripts
Heberden Collection
The Heberden LibraryDate: 1684-1994Reference: SA/HEB- Archives and manuscripts
Reviews
Date: n.d., 1989-1999Reference: PP/AMS/P.17Part of: Alice Stewart (1906-2002)