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A mill in Northern Ireland in which flax is processed to make linen: (right) the flax is broken between rotating rollers, then (left) scutched by blades on a rotating wheel; a woman with a child carries away bundles of flax. Coloured stipple engraving by W. Hincks, 1791.
Hincks, William.Date: [June 20, 1791]Reference: 31349i- Digital Images
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Ocular leprosy: diagnosis and investigation
The Leprosy Mission International- Pictures
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The operating theatre of Otto Lanz, Amsterdam. Photograph.
Date: [1925/1926?]Reference: 44222i- Pictures
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The Pasteur Institute, Kasauli, India: production of the rabies vaccine: inserting a swab on a wire into the spinal canal of a dissected rabbit, previously infected with rabies. Photograph, ca. 1910.
Date: 1910Reference: 570960i- Pictures
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Jane Scrimshaw, aged 126. Mezzotint by J. Faber, senior, 1710.
Faber, John, approximately 1660-1721.Date: 1710Reference: 1807i- Pictures
The feelings of the artist towards nurses, other patients, and a baby, represented by shapes and lines of different colours. Watercolour by I. Feaver, 1965.
Feaver, Inga, active approximately 1965-1966.Date: 16 Nov. 65 [16 November 1965]Reference: 2925147iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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Episodes in the plague in Rome in 1656-1657. Etching.
Date: [between 1656 and 1659?]Reference: 10133i- Pictures
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Harry Gordon performing in drag. Photographic postcard, 194-.
Date: [between 1940 and 1949]Reference: 2045180iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Digital Images
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Origanum dictamnus L. Lamiaceae Dittany of Crete, Hop marjoram. Distribution: Crete. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘... hastens travail [labour] in women, provokes the Terms [menstruation] . See the Leaves.’ Under 'Leaves' he writes: ‘Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, ... brings away dead children, hastens womens travail, brings away the afterbirth, the very smell of it drives away venomous beasts, so deadly an enemy is it to poison, it’s an admirable remedy against wounds and Gunshot, wounds made with poisoned weapons, draws out splinters, broken bones etc. They say the goats and deers in Creet, being wounded with arrows, eat this herb, which makes the arrows fall out of themselves.' Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (c. 100 AD, trans. Beck, 2005), Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants all have this information, as does Vergil’s Aeneid where he recounts how Venus produced it when her son, Aeneas, had received a deadly wound from an arrow, which fell out on its own when the wound was washed with it (Jashemski, 1999). Dioscorides attributes the same property to ‘Tragium’ or ‘Tragion’ which is probably Hypericum hircinum (a St. John’s Wort): ‘Tragium grows in Crete only ... the leaves and the seed and the tear, being laid on with wine doe draw out arrow heads and splinteres and all things fastened within ... They say also that ye wild goats having been shot, and then feeding upon this herb doe cast out ye arrows.’ . It has hairy leaves, in common with many 'vulnaries', and its alleged ability to heal probably has its origin in the ability of platelets to coagulate more easily on the hairs (in the same way that cotton wool is applied to a shaving cut to hasten clotting). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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A hunter with his dog: template squared for copying in embroidery. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 34814i- Digital Images
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Toxic Tau
Debra Esterhuizen- Pictures
A woman who sells groceries examines a herring from a barrel of fish offered to her by a young man. Mezzotint after G. Dou.
Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 31163i- Digital Images
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Card agglutination test for trypanosomiasis
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Jephthah's daughter contemplating her virginity and her imminent death, surrounded by woeful attendants with musical instruments. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1846, after H. O'Neil.
O'Neil, Henry, 1817-1880.Date: 1846Reference: 20812i- Pictures
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Profiles of two human faces facing each other, separated by letters spelling the word AIDS. Colour screenprint by J. Rajlich, 1994.
Rajlich, Jan.Date: [1994]Reference: 677253i- Digital Images
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Vasculature of rat brain
Dr. Phil Langton, University of Bristol- Digital Images
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Charcot Leyden crystals from an endobronchial lesion
William R. Geddie- Digital Images
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Anthyllis vulneraria L. Fabaceae. Kidney vetch, woundwort. 'vulneraria' means 'wound healer'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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Johann Gottfried Matthes (Mathes), a "natural healer", taking the pulse of a patient suffering from the dropsy. Etching, 1784.
Date: 1784Reference: 47558i- Pictures
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On farm land, a young man and young woman turn away from each other in a lovers' quarrel. Engraving by R. Wallis after J.C. Hook.
Hook, James Clarke, 1819-1907.Date: [1865]Reference: 28153i- Pictures
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Information on blood precautions in schools in Chinese and English designed by the Government Information Services, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 678531i