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An apothecary praying for a host of illnesses to descend on his customers so that he can make more money. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: 30 July 1801Reference: 16388i- Books
Complaints, controversies and grievances in medicine : historical and social science perspectives / edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Rebecca Wynter.
Date: 2015- Pictures
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A plant (Romulea columnae): entire flowering and fruiting plants. Coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24387i- Pictures
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Black knapweed plant (Centaurea nigra): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by F. Waller, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24381i- Pictures
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A red dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum) and white dead-nettle (Lamium album). Chromolithograph, c. 1877, after F. E. Hulme.
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909.Date: [1877-1900]Reference: 24500i- Pictures
A man ill with a cold, wrapped in blankets as his servant attempts to give him a steam bath. Wood engraving.
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A shocked family discovering a chair that has increased enormously in size due to being polished with cod-liver oil. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1865.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: 1865Reference: 13803i- Pictures
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Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching after W. Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: March 1829Reference: 12222i- Pictures
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A physician and his female patient talking at cross purposes. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 1880Reference: 13824i- Digital Images
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Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia.[he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’]. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia [he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and reverses the constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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A man barking and drinking port, following a doctor's orders. Coloured aquatint by I. Wilson after M. Egerton, 182-..
Egerton, M., active 1824-1827.Date: [1825?]Reference: 11877i- Books
The health of adult Britain, 1841-1994 / editors John Charlton, Mike Murphy.
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A quack doctor offering a gouty John Bull some medicine while conventional doctors are turned away; referring to British politics. Coloured lithograph attributed to J. Doyle.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Reference: 12250iPart of: Political Squibs- Pictures
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Navelwort plant (Umbilicus rupestris): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24393i- Pictures
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Wild or wood garlic (Allium ursinum): flower and leaves. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24396i- Pictures
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A doctor visiting a patient and advising him against drinking alcohol, the patient responds by inviting him to dinner and some port, in order to avoid jury service. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1865.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: 11 February 1865Reference: 13802i- Pictures
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A servant asking her employer's dentist to fill one of her teeth. Process print after T. Evans, 1929.
Evans, Treyer Meredith, 1889-1958.Date: 1929Reference: 15489i- Books
From lesion to metaphor : chronic pain without lesion in British, French and German medical writings: 1800-1914 / Andrew David Hodgkiss.
Hodgkiss, Andrew.Date: 1996- Pictures
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Mr. Lambkin at a party with some unsavoury looking company. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 12127i- Pictures
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Two species of marsh samphire plant (Salicornia species): leafy stems. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24486i- Pictures
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A stonecrop (Sedum villosum): entire flowering plant. Coloured lithograph, c. 1863, after C. Gower.
Gower, Charlotte.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24415i- Pictures
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Good King Henry (Chenopodium bonus-henricus): flowering stem and leaves. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917.Date: [1863-1880]Reference: 24410i- Pictures
A fashionable mother wearing a dress with slits across the breasts in order to feed her baby before she dashes off to the carriage waiting outside. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 15 February 1796Reference: 17465i- Pictures
William Cobbett is joined by six drunkards who applaud his toast of "damnation to the House of Brunswick"; representing British parliamentary reform. Etching by J. Gillray, ca. 1809.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 29 September 1809Reference: 26481iPart of: The life of William Cobbett, - written by himself