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- Archives and manuscripts
Ashton, Professor Norman
Ashton, N.Date: 1924 - 1998Reference: PP/ASH- Digital Images
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Aconitum carmichaelii Debeaux. Ranunculaceae. Chinese aconite, Chinese wolfsbane, Carmichael's monkshood. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution C. to W. China to N. America. Named for Dr J.R. Carmichael (d. 1877), English physician, plant collector and Protestant missionary from 1862-1877 in Guangdong and Shandong, China initially in Canton. He aided Francis Forbes to collect plants for Kew. Aconitum plants are so poisonous that Theophrastus states that death was the punishment for possessing them. Aconitine is the poison and was used - from Aconitum ferox - in the 'curry murder' in London in 2009. It causes respiratory paralysis, bradycardia (slowing of the pulse), cardiac arrhythmias, tingling, sweating, gastric cramps, diarrhoea and death, both by ingestion and by absorption through the mucous membranes and the skin. Despite this it is widely used in Chinese herbal medicine. It is a restricted herbal medicine which can only be dispensed by a herbal practitioner for external use following a one-to-one consultation, or by prescription from a registered doctor or dentist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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A skull and bones on a grave next to a small picture top left of a couple holding hands, a reminder that AIDS can cause death by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Lithograph, ca. 1990's.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 678822i- Books
Les causes de la mort : histoire naturelle et facteurs de risque / par Anne Fagot-Largeault ; préface de Georges Canguilhem.
Fagot-Largeault, Anne.Date: 1989- Books
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On the proximate cause of death after the spontaneous introduction of air into the veins : with some remarks on the treatment of that accident / by John E. Erichsen.
Erichsen, John Eric, 1818-1896.Date: [1844]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 4 ['Letter Book HSW Personal 2']
Date: Nov 1896 - Jan 1899Reference: WF/E/01/01/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Buried alive not just once - but twice! / I.A. Girvan.
Girvan, I. A.Date: 1996- Archives and manuscripts
Notes on autopsies, etc.
Date: Jun 1932 - Dec 1932Reference: PP/SPI/A.12Part of: Spilsbury, Sir Bernard (1877-1947), Forensic Pathologist- Archives and manuscripts
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 2 ['HSW Private No.2' with key]
Date: 17 Apr 1888 - May 1890Reference: WF/E/01/01/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Shaking hands with death / Terry Pratchett.
Pratchett, TerryDate: 2015- Archives and manuscripts
Notes on autopsies, etc.
Date: Jan 1931 - Sep 1931Reference: PP/SPI/A.10Part of: Spilsbury, Sir Bernard (1877-1947), Forensic Pathologist- Archives and manuscripts
Notes on autopsies, etc.
Date: Apr 1934 - Dec 1934Reference: PP/SPI/A.15Part of: Spilsbury, Sir Bernard (1877-1947), Forensic Pathologist- Books
What did they die of? No. 2, Heart disease / John R. Guy.
Guy, John R.Date: 1992- Books
What did they die of? No. 5, Notable killers / John R. Guy.
Guy, John R.Date: 1993- Books
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Treatise on the physical cause of the death of Christ and its relation to the principles and practice of Christianity / by William Stroud.
Date: 1871- Videos
Dead wrong.
Date: 1994- Books
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On lithotomy considered as a cause of death : with remarks on the present state of the operation, usually called the rectangular operation for stone ... / by A. Buchanan.
Date: [1860]- Archives and manuscripts
PATIENTS' RECORDS: DISCHARGE AND DEATH REGISTERS
Date: 1845-1917Reference: H64/B/05Part of: SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL {WOODSIDE HOSPITAL}- Pictures
A park bench on which the silhouette of a woman and a man make love: it turns into a hospital trolley representing promiscuity as a cause of death through AIDS. Colour lithograph after G. Nemkova and G. Kamenskikh, 1990.
Nemkova, G.Date: 1990Reference: 541402i- Pictures
A surgeon holding a naked female patient while trying to push away death, represented as a skeleton. Soft-ground etching by I. Saliger.
Saliger, Ivo, 1894-1986.Date: [1920]Reference: 23993i- Books
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A report on the sanitary condition of the town of Margate, from the year 1837 to 1862 : being a statistical account of the numbers dying and the cause of death of the inhabitants, visitors, and inmates of the Infirmary / by Edward Mottley.
Mottley, Edward.Date: [1863]- Books
What did they die of? No. 3, Brain disease / John R. Guy.
Guy, John R.Date: 1992- Books
What did they die of? No. 4, "Fever" / John R. Guy.
Guy, John R.Date: 1992- Books
What did they die of? No. 1 / John R. Guy.
Guy, John R.Date: 1991- Pictures
The dance of death. Oil painting.
Reference: 45066i