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A field of foxgloves / by John Burne.
Burne, John.Date: 1994- Books
Digitalis : Geschichte, Biologie, Biochemie, Chemie, Physiologie, Molekularbiologie, Pharmakologie, medizinische Anwendung / von Martin Luckner und Max Wichtl.
Luckner, Martin.Date: 2000- Digital Images
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Rehmannia angulata (Oliv.)Hemsl. Scrophulariaceae Chinese foxglove. Distribution: China. Named for Joseph Rehmann ((1753-1831) German physician (Stearn, 1994) who emigrated to St Petersburg and became the personal physician to Tsar Nicholas 1. Rehmannia glutinosa is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for arthritis. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
The activity of wild american digitalis / by George B. Roth.
Roth, George B.Date: 1917- Books
Observations on the medical and domestic management of the consumptive : on the powers of digitalis purpurea; and on the cure of schrophula / By Thomas Beddoes, M.D.
Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.Date: 1803- Books
Die Geschichte der Digitalis purpurea und ihre Bedeutung in der Medizin bis etwa zum Jahre 1870 / Rainer Stenius.
Stenius, Rainer.Date: 1916- Books
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De l'hydropisie de poitrine et des palpitations du coeur : promptement dissipées par la digitale pourprée / par J.B. Comte.
Comte, J. B., 1766-Date: 1822- Books
Izvjes̆taj o digitalisu i njegovoj medicinskoj upotrebi : s praktic̆nim primjedbama o vodenoj bolesti. [Preveo Zdravko As̆perger].
Withering, William, 1741-1799.Date: 1966- Archives and manuscripts
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M0009498: Portrait of William Withering (1741-1799)
Date: 01 July 1946Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/83/63Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
The invisible harvest : a microhistory of heretical herbs / written and illustrated by Bethany van Rijswijk.
Rijswijk, Bethany vanDate: [2023]- Pictures
William Withering, portrait (top, in oval), and Withering analysing the waters of the Queen's Bath (Caldas de Rainha) at the request of the Portugese Court (below, vignette). Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, 1801, after C. F. von Breda.
Breda, C. F. von (Carl Fredrik), 1759-1818.Date: 1801Reference: 9731i- Digital Images
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Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
Withering, William (1741-1799)
Withering, William, (1741-1799)Date: 26/03/179[8]Reference: MS.8006/15Part of: Miscellany: British, 18th century- Digital Images
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Anthophora bee upside down in Digitalis lanata flower
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
Set of Prints from "A Brief History"
Date: 1995Reference: WF/M/ABHPart of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Medical histories and reflections.
Ferriar, John, 1761-1815.Date: 1816- Archives and manuscripts
Sites: Overseas (Holland; Hong Kong; Hungary)
Date: c.1972-1990Reference: WF/M/I/PR/S13Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Digital Images
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Fuchsia magellanica Lam. Onagraceae. Hardy fuchsia. Semi-hardy shrub. Distribution: Mountainous regions of Chile and Argentina where they are called 'Chilco' by the indigenous people, the Mapuche. The genus was discovered by Charles Plumier in Hispaniola in 1696/7, and named by him for Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), German Professor of Medicine, whose illustrated herbal, De Historia Stirpium (1542) attempted the identification of the plants in the Classical herbals. It also contained the first accounts of maize, Zea mays, and chilli peppers, Capsicum annuum, then recently introduced from Latin America. He was also the first person to publish an account and woodcuts of foxgloves, Digitalis purpurea and D. lutea. The book contains 500 descriptions and woodcuts of medicinal plants, arranged in alphabetical order, and relied heavily on the De Materia Medica (c. AD 70) of Dioscorides. He was a powerful influence on the herbals of Dodoens, and thence to Gerard, L’Escluse and Henry Lyte. A small quarto edition appeared in 1551, and a two volume facsimile of the 1542 edition with commentary and selected translations from the Latin was published by Stanford Press in 1999. The original woodcuts were passed from printer to printer and continued in use for 232 years (Schinz, 1774). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Ephemera
Herbal medicine ephemera. Box 1.
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International Medical Folklore Calendar
Date: 1980Reference: WF/M/PB/31/17Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd