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Fly and maggot oil : poison : a most effective preparation.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Pictures
A pierrot playing the guitar in a town street by night. Oil painting by P. M..., 1963.
Date: 1963Reference: 3040766iPart of: Adamson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
M0006832: An anatomical demonstration by Cornelis Gravesande
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/5Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Tobias curing the blindness of Tobit, with Anna and Raphael. Oil painting after G. Zocchi.
Zocchi, Giuseppe, 1711-1767.Reference: 47256i- Pictures
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An oil palm tree, which harbours the mite that causes scrub typhus. Photograph, ca. 1930.
Date: 1930Reference: 568298i- Pictures
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An operation for stone in the head. Oil painting by a follower of Jan Sanders van Hemessen.
Hemessen, Jan Sanders van, approximately 1500-approximately 1563.Reference: 44860i- Pictures
World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
Moser, Oswald, 1874-1953.Date: [1918?]Reference: 645144i- Pictures
The bay of Naples with the British fleet at anchor, 1 August 1718. Oil painting by Gaspar Butler.
Butler, Gaspar, fl. 18th century.Reference: 45052i- Pictures
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Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
Grebber, Pieter de, approximately 1600-1652 or 1653.Date: [between 1640 and 1649?]Reference: 44824i- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera. Box 39.
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Leprosy: fruits from which chaulmoogra oil (used to treat leprosy) is derived. Watercolour by E. Schwarz-Lenoir, 1921/1950 (?), after Ernest Muir, ca. 1921.
Schwarz-Lenoir, Ernest.Date: 1920-1950Reference: 568154i- Pictures
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The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the Palace of Agriculture: a tower of olive oil bottles produced by Elwood Cooper. Photograph, 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 572339iPart of: 1904 World's Fair (or Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis.- Books
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Specification of William Edward Newton : preparation of food for animals.
Newton, William Edward.Date: 1857- Ephemera
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Genuine crushed linseed : containing all the natural oil / Parkinsons, chemists, Burnley.
R. Parkinson & Sons.Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Books
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The family dictionary; or, Houshold companion : containing, in an alphabetical method, I. Directions for cookery, in dressing flesh, fowl, fish, herbs, roots, &c. Seasoning, making sauces, bills of fare, art of carving, &c. II. Making all sorts of pastry ware, and things made of meal, flower, whether bak'd, boyled, or fried, &c. III. Making of conserves, candies, preserves, confects, lozenges, gellies, creams, pickles, &c. IV. The making all kinds of potable liquors, as ales, meads, metheglin, English wines of cherries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, &c. Cyder, cyder-royal, usquebaugh, cordial waters. V. The making of all sorts of rare perfumes, sweet balls, pouders, admirable washes, beatifying waters, oils, essences, pomatums. VI. The virtues and uses of the most usual herbs and plants, their roots, barks, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, used in physick. ... The second edition, corrected and much enlarged. By William Salmon, professor of physick.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713Date: 1696- Pictures
A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.
Reference: 45565i- Ephemera
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Pure trotter oil : for improving the appearance and promoting the growth and elasticity of the hair.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Digital Images
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Gaultheria procumbens Kalm Ericaeae. Wintergreen, teaberry, boxberry, chickerberry. Distribution: North American forests. Named for French physician/botanist Jean Francois Gaultier (1708-1756). Physician to the French King, emigrated to Quebec in 1742. Researched flora of North America, died of typhus (Oakeley, 2012). Source of oil of wintergreen. Ten pounds of oil can be extracted from a ton of leaves. Toxic effects: Stupidity, swelling of the tongue, food craving, epigastric tenderness, vomiting, dyspnoea, hot skin, tachycardia, restlessness (MiIlspaugh, 1974). Active chemical is methyl salicylate. Used topically for musculo-skeletal conditions, it is converted to salicylic acid when absorbed. Excess use has caused a death. Salicylic acid is also used for warts and corns (first described by Dioscorides in 70CE)
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
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These oiles, vvaters, extractions, or essence[s,] saltes, and other compositions; are at Paules wharfe ready made to be solde, by Iohn Hester, practisioner in the arte of distillation; who will also be ready for a reasonable stipend, to instruct any that are desirous to learne the secrets of the same in few dayes, &c.
Hester, John, -1593Date: [1585?]- Ephemera
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Help stop this : super Solvitax / [Seven Seas].
Seven Seas. Veterinary Division.Date: [1992]- Ephemera
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Horsley's farm bottle for horses, horned cattle, sheep, &c. ... / prepared by W.H. Laverack.
Laverack, W. H.Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Digital Images
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Calendula officinalis (Marigold)
Rowan McOnegal- Digital Images
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Calendula officinalis (Marigold), flower harvesting
Rowan McOnegal- Books
Food myths debunked : why our food is safe / James W. Cooper.
Cooper, James W, 1943-Date: 2014- Digital Images
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Surface of a mint leaf
Annie Cavanagh