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Lord Ogleby with Canton (a valet) and Brush in Colman and Garrick's The clandestine marriage. Engraving by H. Meyer, 1821, after G. Clint.
Clint, George, 1770-1854.Date:Â [16 March 1821]Reference:Â 22197i- Books
For the love of animals : the rise of the animal protection movement / Kathryn Shevelow.
Shevelow, Kathryn, 1951-Date:Â 2008- Digital Images
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Cistus incanus ssp creticus Juss. Cistaceae. Rock Rose. Distribution: Crete. Interesting symbiosis with fungus called Tuber melanosporum which increases nutrient absorption for the plant and inhibits growth of other plants in the vicinity. It is a source of the resin ‘labdanum’ (a.k.a. ‘ladanum’) used in perfumes (similar smell to ambergris), as is Cistus ladanifer. It has no medical uses now, and such use was dwindling even in the 18th century. In the 16th century (Henry Lyte’s 1575 translation of Rembert Dodoen’s Cruydeboeck of 1554) its uses were described (directly copied from Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (70AD)) as: ‘Ladanum dronketh with olde wine, stoppeth the laske [periods], and provoketh urine. It is very good against the hardness of the matrix or mother [uterus] layde to in the manner of a pessarie, and it draweth down the secondes or afterbirth, when it is layde upon quicke coles [hot coals], and the fumigation or parfume thereof be received up into the body of women. // The same applied to the head with Myrrhe and oyle of Myrrhe, cureth the scurffe, called Alopecia, and keepeth the heare [hair] from falling of [sic], but whereas it is already fallen away, it will not cause the heare to growe agayne. // ...' and goes on in this vein about its uses for pain in the ears, and removing sores and scars and other things. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
Beethoven's hair : an extraordinary historical odyssey and a musical mystery solved / Russell Martin.
Martin, Russell, 1952-Date:Â 2000- Pictures
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The young foppish politician Charles James Fox having his hair dressed; represented by a fox with pages from the Magna Charta as curl-papers. Engraving, 1771.
Date:Â published as the Act directs June 9 1771Reference:Â 12167i- Pictures
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Lord Ogleby with Canton (a valet) and Brush in Colman and Garrick's The clandestine marriage. Engraving by H. Meyer, 1821, after G. Clint.
Clint, George, 1770-1854Date:Â 16 March 1821Reference:Â 22007i- Ephemera
Gout ephemera. Box 1.
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A peasant family in a farm-house. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G. Zocchi.
Zocchi, Giuseppe, 1711-1767.Date:Â [between 1700 and 1799]Reference:Â 46826i- Pictures
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A barber playing the tragic role of Alexander the Great in the acting style of David Garrick. Mezzotint after R. Dighton.
Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814.Date:Â [1788?]Reference:Â 29532i- Archives and manuscripts
English Recipe Book, late 18th/early 19th century
Date:Â c. 1777-1810Reference:Â MS.9170- Pictures
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La belle Espagnole, - ou - la doublure de Madame Tallien.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815Date:Â 25 February 1796Reference:Â 16855i- Books
Treasuring the gaze : intimate vision in late eighteenth-century eye miniatures / Hanneke Grootenboer.
Grootenboer, Hanneke.Date:Â [2012]- Ephemera
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Schaefer's Liliput Revue.
Date:Â [1930?]- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera : Pre-1850. Box 1.
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Obituary of Roy Porter.
Date:Â 2002- Pictures
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Krakatoa: fan palm (Chamaerops humilis L.) with surrounding tropical forest and native woman. Coloured soft-ground etching after J. Webber, 1788.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date:Â 1 August 1788Reference:Â 20137i- Digital Images
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Acu-moxa chart: Gall bladder channel in the head and nec
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Demons and witches arrive at the sabbath. Engraving by J. Aliamet after D. Teniers the younger, 1755.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date:Â [1755]Reference:Â 40371i- Videos
The fantastical world of hormones.
Date:Â 2014