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On the nature and physiological action of the poison of Naja tripudians and other Indian venomous snakes. Part II / by T. Lauder Brunton and J. Fayrer.
Brunton, T. Lauder (Thomas Lauder), 1844-1916.Date: [1874]- Books
On the nature and physiological action of the poison of Naja tripudians and other Indian venomous snakes. Part I / by T. Lauder Brunton and J. Fayrer.
Brunton, T. Lauder (Thomas Lauder), 1844-1916.Date: [1873]- 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 'Flore Pleno'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Paeonia officinalis 'Flore Pleno'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Paeonia officinalis 'Flore Pleno'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Snakes
Li Jianyuan (Ming period, 1368-1644)- Digital Images
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Paeonia mascula ssp arietina
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Paeonia officinalis 'Flore Pleno'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Chinese Materia Dietetica: Rice liquor; Guangxi snake liquor
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On the nature and physiological action of the Crotalus-poison as compared with that of Naja tripudians and other Indian venomous snakes : also investigations into the nature of the influence of Naja- and Crotalus-poison on ciliary and amœboid action and on Vallisneria, and on the influence of inspiration of pure oxygen on poisoned animals / by T. Lauder Brunton and J. Fayrer.
Brunton, T. Lauder (Thomas Lauder), 1844-1916.Date: [1875]- Digital Images
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C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - Snake-Coil boil
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Hemlock (Conium maculatum): flowering plants growing by a river. Colour process print, c. 1924.
Date: 1 March 1924Reference: 25599i- 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
Folkes, Martin (1690-1754)
Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754.Date: 1745-1748Reference: MSS.1302, 2391-2392 & 5403- Digital Images
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Steel ring, Italian, 16th century
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Gold ring, Italian, 16th century
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Wellcome Medical Diaries, Overseas Editions, Indian Service
Date: 1904-1942Reference: WF/M/PB/08Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
MS Tamil 28
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Medicine quest : in search of nature's healing secrets / Mark J. Plotkin ; [illustrations by Laurence Richardson].
Plotkin, Mark J.Date: 2000- Pictures
Vishnu sits on top and at the bottom of mount Madura in his incarnation as Kurma (tortoise,) as the gods and demons churn the ocean to retrieve the nector and other treasures. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 577284i- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Medical Diaries, Overseas Editions, India
Date: 1904-1955Reference: WF/M/PB/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Journals
Feuilles d'hygiène et de police sanitaire / Dr. Guillaume.
Date: 1875-- Archives and manuscripts
Chapters used in Mulligan's history
Date: 1960s-1980sReference: WTI/HWM/B.1Part of: Mulligan, Hugh Waddell- Books
Eye of newt and toe of frog, adder's fork and lizard's leg : the lore and mythology of amphibians and reptiles / Marty Crump ; in collaboration with Danté B. Fenolio.
Crump, Martha L.Date: 2015