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Two prayers to the three magi for protection from disease; with pictures of the adoration of the magi and the magi with the holy family in heaven. Engraving on red silk.
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Balthasar Bekker and Christian Scriver sieve diseases from devils. Engraving, 1731.
Date: [1731]Reference: 994i- Pictures
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Roots of ginger (Zingiber officinale) and of dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris). Watercolour.
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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.
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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.
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A man praying to a saint to assist in the cure of a sick child, devils departing. Oil painting by an Italian painter.
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Prince Leopold, 1st Duke of Albany. Wood engraving.
Date: [1884?]Reference: 644071iPart of: Imperial, royal and noble persons. Album of portrait prints collected by René de Beer, 1912 (?).- Pictures
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Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16859i- Digital Images
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Measles infection in a brain cell nucleus
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Ming herbal (painting): Crow
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The roles of the state in the maintenance of health in Great Britain, 1930s-1990s. Prints, photographs, documents.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 804686i- Digital Images
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White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
Christopher Whelan, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland- Digital Images
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White matter fibres of the uncinate fasciculus
Christopher Whelan, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland- Digital Images
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MRI scan; brain cancer (astrocytoma)
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Saint Valentine blessing an epileptic. Coloured etching.
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Saint John the Baptist. Etching by P.E. Moitte, 1754, after J.C. Loth, il Carlotto.
Loth, Johann Carl, 1632-1698.Date: 1754Reference: 6239i- Pictures
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Saint John the Baptist. Engraving by L. Kilian, 1623, after J.M. Kager.
Kager, Johann Matthias, 1575?-1634.Date: 1623Reference: 6226iPart of: Sanctuarium Christianorum, id est imagines Christi et apostolorum, aeri incisae.- Pictures
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The decapitation of Saint John the Baptist. Wood engraving by C.A. Zscheckel after Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld.
Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Julius, 1794-1872.Reference: 6250i- Pictures
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Saint John the Baptist. Engraving by J. Landseer, 1796, after B. West.
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820.Date: May 28th 1796Reference: 6232i- Pictures
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Saint John the Baptist. Etching by G. Cooke, 1816, after G. Reni.
Reni, Guido, 1575-1642.Date: Sep. 1816Reference: 6241i- Pictures
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Saint John the Baptist. Engraving by L. Lorenzi after R. Allegranti after J. Ligozzi.
Ligozzi, Jacopo, 1547-1626.Date: [175?-?]Reference: 8638iPart of: Cabinet Gerini. Raccolta di stampe rappresentanti i quadri più scelti dei SS. Marchesi Gerini di Firenze- Pictures
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Saint John the Baptist. Engraving by S. de La Vallée after Raphael.
Raphael, 1483-1520.Date: 1729-1742Reference: 6224iPart of: Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France.- Pictures
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Saint John the Baptist. Engraving by F. Chereau after Raphael.
Raphael, 1483-1520.Reference: 8639i- Pictures
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Saint John the Baptist. Stipple engraving by T.H. Parry, 1836, after P.F. Mola.
Mola, Pier Francesco, 1612-1666.Date: 1836Reference: 6238i