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An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).
Reference: 16241i- Pictures
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A barber-surgeon attending to a man's forehead. Oil painting.
Reference: 45022i- Digital Images
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Chamaemelum nobile (L.) All. Asteraceae. English, Roman or garden chamomile Distribution: Europe, Mediterranean. Culpeper (1650): “... assuage swellings, inflammations of the bowels, dissolve wind, are profitable given in clysters or drink, to such as are troubled with colic or [renal] stone.” The leaves are pleasantly fragrant, hence its use as a lawn plant, but also in aromatherapy. A ‘tea’ made from the flowers is apparently used to lighten hair colour. Chamomile contains sesquiterpene lactones, and these are known to possess allergenic properties. Hypersensitivity reactions have been reported in this and other members of the Compositae (Asteraceae) and cross sensitivity reactions may occur (Medicines Control Agency, 2002). Analgesic, and used for cramps and spasms (Quincy, 1718). Chamomile tea is used to help sleep, but may cause uterine contractions so avoid in pregnancy (US National Institutes of Health advice). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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A description of Read's patent syringe, or, Stomach pump, and lavement apparatus : with directions for its employment in the following operations, viz.: extracting poison from the stomach : administering clysters : introducing tobacco fumes into the bowels : transfusion of blood & venous injections : drawing off the urine : injecting the bladder : female injections : administraiton of food and medicine : drawing the breasts : injecting the wounds inflicted by rabid animals, thereby preventing hydrophobia, &c. &c. : containing also testimonials of its superior utility, and a tabular view of poisons and antidotes, from professional authority / by John Read.
Read, John, 1760-1847.Date: [1830?]- Pictures
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Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, with his mistress, both represented as chickens. Etching, 1791.
Date: 1791Reference: 15982i- Pictures
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Three scenes illustrating the vanity of doctors. Lithograph by Béraud.
Reference: 16244i- Pictures
An apothecary attempts to give an Englishman an enema but is restrained by an American; medical aid is prevented by a Frenchman and Spaniard; representing the problems caused for the English by the American war for independence. Line engraving, 1778.
Date: 1778Reference: 15969i- Pictures
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A goat-headed man caresses a sleeping ewe-headed woman; representing the notion of animal magnetism and its application by physicians. Etching after M. Voltz (?), 1815.
Voltz, Michael, 1784-1858.Reference: 17847i- Archives and manuscripts
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Medical Miscellany (Miscellanea Medica XXXIII)
Date: 1449Reference: MS.558- Pictures
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A seething mass of people driven by a multitude of different wills; representing the levelling of life by death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1690.
Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718.Date: 1690Reference: 17931i- Pictures
King Louis XIV receives an enema while sitting on a globe of the earth, thus besmearing it with ordure; around him, chaos reigns; symbolising the events following the Protestant rebellions of 1674 including the flight of the royal family from England in 1689. Engraving by R. de Hooghe, c. 1689.
Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708.Date: 1689Reference: 17522i- Books
Specification of William Robert Lake : bed for taking injections.
Lake, William Robert.Date: 1872- Books
Specification of William Robert Lake : bed for taking injections.
Lake, William Robert.Date: 1872- Pictures
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At a Great Exhibition a shopkeeper sells enemas concealed in hollow volumes of classic literature for purposes of discretion. Lithograph by C. Vernier, 1844.
Vernier, Charles, 1831-1887.Date: 1844Reference: 16817iPart of: Souvenirs de l'exposition- Pictures
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A man carrying a giant syringe. Pen drawing, ca. 1810.
Date: [1810?]Reference: 10954i- Books
L'Instrument des apothicaires / Claude de Saint-Heible ; 11 vignettes de M. Van Mael ; 7 hors texte d'après les gravures de l'époque.
Saint-Hieble, Claude de.Date: [1920]- Archives and manuscripts
A Collection of Prescriptions
Date: 1735Reference: MS.MSL.10/4Part of: A Collection of Prescriptions- Pictures
A gentlemen pays an unexpected call on a lady friend only to discover she is in the middle of having an enema. Line engraving by F. Dequevauviller, 1786, after N. Lafrensen the younger.
Lafrensen, Niklas, 1737-1807.Date: [1786]Reference: 15864i- Books
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The windsor medley: being a choice collection of several curious pieces in prose and verse: that were handed about in manuscript and print, during the stay of the court at Windsor-Castle last summer. Most of them never before Printed. Viz. Ruth the Quaker, her Rebuke to the Craftsman, and her Exhortation to Peace and Unity, in an Epistle to a certain Great Man. Lord H-y to Mr. F-x, written at Florence. Verses upon a Mistake that happen'd in administring a Clyster to a Lady of Quality at Windsor. The Duck drown'd in Parnassus; or, the Goose Triumphant, an admirable Poem. A King at Arms disarm'd at law, a Ballad. Blasphemy as Old as the Creation, a Satyr. The Epsom Beauties. Some Account of a Booby of Quality lately exported beyond Sea on his Travels. The disappointed Maid. The Maiden's Husband. The Batchelor's Wife. An Epigram on Miss Kitty A-l-n. The Windsor Ballad. An Epigram on Stephen Duck, by Mr. P-. Cloe's Precaution. Verses to a young Lady, who receiv'd a Kiss as an Affront at a late City Visit. The White Joke, the Tune play'd before the King's Guard at Windsor-Castle. The Sportive Lambs. William and Dorothy of Datchet. An Epistle from John Hooper, alias Ketch, Citizen and Cordwinder of London to Col. Ch-r-is. Together with numbers of other very curious Things, not mentioned in the Title.
Date: [1731]- Books
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The windsor medley: being a choice collection of several curious pieces in prose and verse: that were handed about in manuscript and print, during the stay of the court at Windsor-Castle last summer. Most of them never before Printed. Viz. Ruth the Quaker, her Rebuke to the Craftsman, and her Exhortation to Peace and Unity, in an epistle to a certain Great Man. Lord H-y to Mr. F-x, written at Florence. Verses upon a Mistake that happen'd in administring a Clyster to a Lady of Quality at Windsor. The Duck drown'd in Parnassus; or, the Goose Triumphant, an admirable Poem. A King at Arms disarm'd at Law, a Ballad. Blasphemy as Old as the Creation, a Satyr. The Epsom Beauties. Some Account of a Booby of Quality lately exported beyond Sea on his Travels. The disappointed Maid. The Maiden's Husband. The Batchelor's Wife. An Epigram on Miss Kitty A-l-n. The Windsor Ballad. An Epigram on Stephen Duck, by Mr. P-. Cloe's Precaution. Verses to a young Lady, who receiv'd a Kiss as an Affront at a late City Visit. The White Joke, the Tune play'd before the King's Guard at Windsor-Castle. The Sportive Lambs. William and Dorothy of Datchet. An Epistle from John Hooper, alias Ketch, Citizen and Cordwinder of London to Col. Ch-r-is. Together with numbers of other very curious Things, not mentioned in the Title.
Date: 1731- Books
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The windsor medley: being a choice collection of several curious pieces in prose and verse: that were handed about in manuscript and print, during the stay of the court at Windsor-Castle last summer. Most of them never before Printed. Viz. A most ingenious Epigram upon Miss F-n-ss; and another on Miss P- Lord H-r-y to Mr. S F-x. Some Account of a Booby of Quality lately exported beyond Sea on his Travels. Verses upon a Mistake that happen'd in administring a Clyster to a Lady of Quality at Windsor. A Copy of Verses upon the Aldermen of London. The Windsor Ballad. Several Epigrams on the Poet Laureat, by some of the best Hands. Also the New-Year's-Day Ode. A most remarkable Letter from a Dorsetshire Attorney to his Kinsman, relating to the Judges refusing to sign his Certificate. A King at Arms disarm'd at Law, a Ballad. A Welsh Surgeon's Bill for a Widow Inn-Keeper at Oswaldstree. Blasphemy as Old as the Creation, an incomparable Satyr. Ruth the Quaker, her Rebuke to the Craftsman, and her Exhortation to Peace and Unity, in an Epistle to a certain Great Man. Cloe's Precaution. An Epistle from Jack Ketch, to the Rape-Master-General. On an old Batchelor of Seventy, his making Love to a Maiden of Fifteen in Westminster. Together with numbers of other very curious Things, not mentioned in the Title.
Date: [1731]- Pictures
King Louis XIV in bed, having been told that the rumour of King William III's death was untrue, is treated by physicians and surgeons representing different nations. Etching by P. Bouttats., c. 1690.
Bouttats, Philibert, 1654 or 1655-Date: 1690Reference: 17524i- Pictures
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The rulers of Europe as doctors prescribing remedies for Empress Maria Theresa. Etching and letterpress, 1742.
Date: 1742Reference: 17526i- Pictures
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Henry Addington as a medical practitioner bleeding the exhausted John Bull, assisted by other politicians; representing Britain's strength being sapped by nepotism in politics and by war with Napoleon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 2 May 1803Reference: 12193i- Pictures
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A doctor trying to administer medicines to a drunken, carbuncled sailor. Coloured etching by W. Elmes after XYZ.
X Y Z.Date: [Augt 12. 1811]Reference: 11057i