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Ancient faiths and modern : a dissertation upon worships, legends and divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, before the Christian era : showing their relations to religious customs as they now exist / by Thomas Inman.
Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876.Date: 1876- E-books
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The great divergence : China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy / Kenneth Pomeranz.
Pomeranz, Kenneth.Date: c2000- Books
Food and war in twentieth century Europe / edited by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Rachel Duffett, Alain Drouard.
Date: [2011], ©2011- Books
Bodies of knowledge : cultural interpretations of illness and medicine in medieval Europe / edited by Sally Crawford, Christina Lee.
Date: 2010- Books
The hospital services of Europe : report of the third European Conference, 10-14 October 1966, held at the Hospital Administrative Staff College.
Date: [1966], ©1966- Digital Images
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Glaucium flavum Crantz Papaveraceae Yellow horned poppy. Distribution: North Africa, Western Asia to Europe. Contains glaucine which is toxic but in small doses may be bronchodilator. As Papaver corniculatum luteum it was known to Parkinson (1640) who reports it as bitter, so advises taking it in honey, as a purgative and analgesic
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
Reconfiguring the world : nature, God, and human understanding from the Middle Ages to early modern Europe / Margaret J. Osler.
Osler, Margaret J., 1942-2010.Date: 2010- Books
Western medical reports on Central Eurasia / Ruth I. Meserve.
Meserve, Ruth I.Date: 1997- Ephemera
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Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Western Europe : Rates of sexually transmitted infections, particularly gonorrhoea, genital herpes and chlamydia are also on the increase. Good sex education is the first step towards informed choice and self-empowerment / NPL, The Naz Project, an HIV/AIDS service for the South Asian, Middle Eastern & North African communities.
Date: [between 1995 and 2000?]- Digital Images
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Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link Fabaceae. Common broom, Genista. Distribution: Western and central Europe. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Genista. Broom: … clense and open the stomach, break the stone in the reins [kidneys] and bladder, help the green sickness [anaemia]. Let such as are troubled with heart qualms or faintings, forbear it, for it weakens the heart and spirit vital' and in respect of the flowers he writes: 'Broome-flowers, purge water, and are good in dropsies [now regarded as heart failure with fluid retention].' Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Rosa gallica L. Rosaceae Distribution: S & C Europe, Western Asia. Culpeper: “Red roses cool, bind, strengthen both vital and animal virtue, restores such as are in consumptions, strengthen. Notes: Rose water and distilled oil of roses have been used in herbal medicine for over a thousand years, and are still used in aromatherapy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Acanthus spinosus L. Acanthaceae. Bears breeches. Distribution: Southern Europe to Western Turkey. Herbaceous perennial flowering plant. Named for spiny leaves. Dioscorides recommended the roots applied for inflammation and spasms, and -when drunk- to promote urine, check diarrhoea, and for phthysis, ruptures and convulsions. The leaves are the model for those at the top of Corinthian columns. Tetraglycosides isolated from the plant show cytotoxicity in sea urchin eggs and crown gall tumour on potato disks. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Salvia nemorosa L. Lamiaceae Woodland sage. Balkan clary Distribution: Central Europe, Western Asia. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Linnaeus (1782) also: 'Timor, Languor, Leucorrhoea, Senectus [fear, tiredness, white vaginal discharge, old age]'. Its health giving and immortality conferring properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
The art and practice of Western medicine in the early nineteenth century / Carl J. Pfeiffer.
Pfeiffer, Carl J.Date: [1985], ©1985- Books
The house of wisdom : how the Arabs transformed Western civilization / Jonathan Lyons.
Lyons, JonathanDate: 2009- Books
Plagues, poisons, and potions : plague-spreading conspiracies in the western Alps, c. 1530-1640 / William G. Naphy.
Naphy, William G., 1960-Date: 2002- Archives and manuscripts
Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819-1905), astronomer at Pulkova, Russia
Date: 1847-1874Reference: MS.7670/5-7Part of: Miscellany: Eastern Europe, 19th century- Archives and manuscripts
D.M. Sophianopoulo (fl. 1832), Greek physician
Date: 1831-1832Reference: MS.7670/4Part of: Miscellany: Eastern Europe, 19th century- Archives and manuscripts
Gyula Siklösy [a.k.a. Siklössy] (1839-1901), Hungarian ophthalmologist
Date: 1878Reference: MS.7670/1Part of: Miscellany: Eastern Europe, 19th century- Archives and manuscripts
Professor Stubielewicz (fl. 1809), physicist, Vilna, Lithuania
Date: 1809Reference: MS.7670/8Part of: Miscellany: Eastern Europe, 19th century- Archives and manuscripts
Peter von Tchihatchef (1812-1890), Russian geologist and naturalist
Date: 1862-1881Reference: MS.7670/9-19Part of: Miscellany: Eastern Europe, 19th century- Archives and manuscripts
Joseph Škoda (1805-1881), Czech physician
Date: 1856-1862Reference: MS.7670/2-3Part of: Miscellany: Eastern Europe, 19th century- Archives and manuscripts
von Pusch, Lucien, Professor (fl. 1892), Polish naturopath
Date: 1890-1892Reference: MS.7557/1-2Part of: Miscellaneous: Eastern Europe, 19th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
Radlescu, Alexandru (b.1886), Romanian professor of orthopedics
Date: 1926Reference: MS.7557/4Part of: Miscellaneous: Eastern Europe, 19th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
Puusepp, Lyudvig Martinovich (1875-1942), Estonian neurosurgeon
Date: c.1890Reference: MS.7557/3Part of: Miscellaneous: Eastern Europe, 19th-20th centuries