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First aid in pictures / Robert Andrew ; illustrated by Ann Price-Owen.
Andrew, RobertDate: 1976- Pictures
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First aid for lay people before the doctor arrives. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.
Date: [1920?]Reference: 574922i- 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- Archives and manuscripts
Robinson, Dr. (fl. 1762), probably based in the West Indies
Date: 1762Reference: MS.7544/5Part of: Miscellaneous: English, 18th century- Pictures
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A plant related to birthwort, (Aristolochia longa L.): flowering stem with separate rhizome and sections of fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16908i- Archives and manuscripts
Maurice B. Blake (fl.1931)
Date: 1931Reference: MS.7337/1Part of: Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
Various diseases, medical conditions and procedures
Date: Mid to late 20th centuryReference: GP/4/B/5Part of: Hutchison, David (1920-2001)- Digital Images
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Ptolemaic pharaoh offering incense to Horus, wall relief
Carole Reeves- Pictures
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A man with a herbal and a jar of theriac: an apothecary or pharmaceutical scholar. Oil painting.
Reference: 45831i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0005417: Aristochia from Erbario Medicinale, 15th century
Date: 3 February 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/44/45Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
MSAmer65
Date: July 1818- Videos
The Wellcome Trust in Thailand : malaria, rabies and snakebite.
Date: 1987- Archives and manuscripts
Objects: Medicine Cases [Unnumbered]
Date: c.1890-c.1940Reference: WF/M/I/PR/O02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
The Vi-ton-ka medicine show.
Date: [1983], ©1983- Pictures
The head of a Turk, surmounted by an eagle holding thunderbolts, and surmounting a strapwork panel announcing the manners and fashions of the Turks. Process print, 1873, after a woodcut, 1553.
Date: 1873Reference: 3106279i- 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.
Dr Henry Oakeley- 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.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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Saint Peter. Woodcut after H. Baldung Grien.
Baldung, Hans, -1545.Date: 1849Reference: 6778i- Pictures
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Saint Peter. Engraving attributed to C. Cort.
Date: 1583Reference: 6773i- Digital Images
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Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Pig trough/urine ditch water
Anonymous- Digital Images
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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- Pictures
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Saint Peter. Stipple engraving by E. Scriven, 1814, after H. Corbould after B. West.
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820.Date: June 4 1814Reference: 6798i- Pictures
Martyrdom of Saint Peter. Colour engraving by C. Lasinio after C. Mariotti after Giunta Pisano.
Giunta, Pisano, active 1236-1254.Reference: 6806i- Pictures
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Martyrdom of Saint Peter. Engraving by A.F. Gelée after S. Coeuré after P.H. Subleyras.
Subleyras, Pierre, 1699-1749.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 6810iPart of: Galerie du Musée Napoléon.- Pictures
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Saint Peter. Mezzotint by J. Smith after Johan Liss.
Liss, Johan, approximately 1597-approximately 1630.Reference: 6799i