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Il morso della vipera ed il permanganato di potassa : memoria letta alla Società Italiana di Chirurgia nella sua prima riunione tenutasi in Roma il 30 Aprile 1883 / dal socio fondatore Dott. Giuseppe Badaloni.
Badaloni, GiuseppeDate: 1883- Pictures
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An indian snake charmer charming a cobra held by his wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 32436i- Pictures
Moses displays the brazen serpent to his ailing people. Etching by J. Mynde, 1737.
Date: [1737]Reference: 18333i- Ephemera
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Directions for using 'Stypven' Russell Viper Venom (not for injection).
Date: [1948?]- Pictures
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Moses points to the brazen serpent while his people writhe on the ground, besieged by fiery serpents. Etching by G. Cooke, 1816, after C. le Brun.
Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.Date: 1 April 1816Reference: 18329i- Pictures
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Moses points to the brazen serpent while his people carry their wounded towards it. Etching.
Date: 1816Reference: 18332i- Pictures
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Moses presents his brazen serpent to the people. Woodcut after Robert Anning Bell, c. 1890.
Bell, Robert Anning, 1863-1933.Reference: 18284i- Pictures
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Saint Benedict of Nursia: while he lives as a hermit in a cave near Subiaco, a raven protects him from poisoned bread (represented by a snake emerging from a loaf). Engraving by J. Frey after G. Anziani after Carlo Cignani.
Cignani, Carlo, 1628-1719.Reference: 8569i- Pictures
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Saint Benedict of Nursia: while he lives as a hermit in a cave near Subiaco, a raven protects him from poisoned bread (represented by a snake emerging from a loaf). Engraving by J. Frey after G. Anziani after Carlo Cignani.
Cignani, Carlo, 1628-1719.Reference: 3651i- Pictures
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Two yogis, one meditating, the other performing a fire ritual. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28663i- Books
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Researches upon the venom of the rattlesnake : with an investigation of the anatomy and physiology of the organs concerned / by S. Weir Mitchell.
Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914.Date: [1860]- Books
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An enquiry into the causes of diseases in general and the disturbances of the humors in man's body : wherein the nature of the blood, of the air and of a pestiliential constitution are briefly considered : together with some observations shewing wherein the venom of vipers, particularly that of the English adder does consist / by Stanford Wolsterstan.
Wolferstan, StanfordDate: 1692- Pictures
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Moses and Eleazar reveal the brazen serpent to the people afflicted with snakebite. Lithograph by A. Blanco after P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 20545i- Pictures
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People writhe in pain among the fiery serpents as Moses produces the brazen serpent. Line engraving after F. Fenzoni.
Fenzoni, Ferraù, 1562-1645.Reference: 18336i- Ephemera
First aid ephemera. Box 1.
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If a fatal dose of venom gets into the circulation of man or beast there is no hope of recovery, except by the prompt injection of a full dose of Anti-venomous Serum.
Date: [1961]- Books
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Lectures on surgery : delivered in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. / By William Lawrence.
Lawrence, William, Sir, 1783-1867.Date: MDCCCLXIII. [1863]- Books
Cittarkaḷ tiruvāy malarntaruḷiya Cittarārūṭam arumpatapporuḷ akarāti / iḵatu palarukkum upayōkappaṭum poruṭṭu Ku. Vi. Mūrttimutaliyār avarkaḷ kēṭṭukkoṇṭapaṭi Tiru. Tamiḻppulavar Jekanātamutaliyārāl uraiyiṭappaṭṭu Kom. Pe. Ceṅkalvarāyaceṭṭiyā ravarkaḷatu ... patippikkappaṭṭatu.
Date: 1881- Books
On the nature of snake-poison, its effects on living creatures and the present aspect of "treatment of the poisoned" / by Sir Joseph Fayrer.
Fayrer, Joseph, Sir, 1824-1907Date: 1884- Books
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The sixth book of Practical physick : Of occult or hidden diseases; in nine parts Part I. Of diseases from occult qualities in general. Part. II. Of occult, malignant, and venemous diseases arising from the internal fault of the humors. Part III. Of occult diseases from water, air, and infections, and of infectious diseases. Part IV. Of the venereal pox. Part V. Of outward poysons in general Part VI. Of poysons from minerals and metals. Part. VII. Of poysons from plants. Part VIII. Of poysons that come from living creatures. Part IX. Of diseases by witchcraft, incantation, and charmes. By Daniel Sennertus, N Culpeper, and Abdiah Cole, Doctors of Physick.
Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637Date: 1662- Digital Images
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Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. Asteraceae Milk thistle. Carduus Mariae. Distribution: Europe. Gerard (1633) calls it Carduus Mariae, Carduus Lectus, or Ladies Thistle, and Carduus leucographus [meaning 'white writing', in reference to the white markings on the leaves] because Pliny wrote about a plant he called Leucographis although Gerard notes that it would be 'hard to assume this to be the same [plant].' He also queries if it is the same as the Alba spina of Galen. Of the latter he reports that Galen recommended it for all manner of bleeding, toothache and the seeds for cramp. Gerard writes that Dioscorides recommends that a drink of the seeds helps infants whose sinews are 'drawne together'
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Callicarpa bodinieri var giraldii 'Profusion'
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Asphodeline lutea Rchb. Yellow asphodel, King's spear, Hastula regia. Hardy rhizomatous perennial. Distribution Mediterranean and Caucasus. It is the flower of the dead, as Homer writes that it carpets an area in the gloomy darkness of the underworld (Hades), in Greek mythology where the souls of the dead are found. However this may be a misinterpretation of the Greek where 'Asphodel' has been read instead of 'ash-filled'. In the etymology of flower names, it is suggested that the yellow 'daffodil' is a corruption of French or Flemish 'de asphodel' (both ex Steve Reece, 2007). An Aristotelian epigram, refers to it growing on tombs: 'On my back I hold mallow and many-rooted asphodel ...' The asphodel was sacred to Persephone, goddess of the underworld, who was seized and wed by Hades, god of the underworld, and taken to his kingdom. Her disappearance brings the winter, and her reappearance each year, the spring. The only reliable source of information about its early medical uses is, probably, Dioscorides although the plant in his De Materia Medica may be A. ramosus or A. albus. He gives its properties as diuretic, induces menses, good for coughs and convulsions, an antidote to snake bite, applied as a poultice for sores of all sorts, and in compounds for eye, ear and tooth pains, and to cure alopecia and vitiligo, but induces diarrhoea and vomiting and is an anti-aphrodisiac. Fuchs (1542), as Ruel’s commentaries (1543) note, makes a big mistake as he has Lilium martagon as his concept of A. luteus. Ruel only illustrates its leaves and roots, calling it Hastula regia (Latin for King’s spear) but Matthiolus's Commentaries (1569 edition) has a reasonable woodcut also as Hastula regia (1569). Dodoen's Cruydeboeck (1556) does not mention or illustrate Asphodelus luteus. L'Escluse's French translation Histoire des Plantes (1557) follows the Cruydeboeck. Dodoen's Latin translation Stirpium Historia Pemptades Sex (1583) adds A. luteus with text and woodcut, with no uses. Henry Lyte's (1578) translation illustrates Asphodelus luteus as Asphodeli tertia species and 'Yellow affodyl' (vide etymology of 'daffodil') and also does not describe any uses for it. Gerard's translation The Herbal (1597 and 1633) continues the muddle and does not give any uses for this plant. Parkinson's comments (1640) on the lack of medicinal properties of asphodels, refer to quite different plants coming from wet areas in Lancashire, Scotland and Norway . He calls them pseudoasphodelus major and minor which he writes are called Asphodelus luteus palustris by Dodoens, and not 'King's Spear' which he illustrates with a good woodcut of A. luteus and calls it Asphodelus luteus minor. Once herbals started to be written in northern Europe, the knowledge of the arid loving, Asphodelus luteus of south east Europe was lost. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
Snake venom work
Date: 1902-1920Reference: PP/ROG/C.5Part of: Rogers, Sir Leonard