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2 images of swooning/fainting women, 13th Century
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The borderland of epilepsy : faints, vagal attacks, vertigo, migraine, sleep symptoms and their treatment.
Gowers, W. R. (William Richard), 1845-1915.Date: 1907- Digital Images
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Veratrum album L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum -and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Veratrum nigrum L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and, when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying-in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum - and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
The border-land of epilepsy : faints, vagal attacks, vertigo, migraine, sleep symptoms and their treatment by Sir William R. Gowers / [Sir W.R. Gowers].
Gowers, W. R. (William Richard), 1845-1915.Date: 1907- Books
The naked lady who stood on her head : a psychiatrist's stories of his most bizarre cases / Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan.
Small, Gary, 1951-Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
Urinary diseases and their treatment / by Robert Willis.
Willis, Robert, 1799-1878Date: 1838- Videos
Treatment of infections to the hand.
Date: 1950- Film
Treatment of infections to the hand.
Date: 1950- Videos
Treatment of infections to the hand.
Date: 1950- Books
Emergency admissions : memoirs of an ambulance driver / Kit Wharton.
Wharton, KitDate: 2017- Videos
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Recent advances in fracture treatment. Part 2, Compound fractures.
Date: c.1932- Videos
Recent advances in fracture treatment. Part 2, Compound fractures.
Date: c.1932- Film
Recent advances in fracture treatment. Part 2, Compound fractures.
Date: c.1932- Videos
Recent advances in fracture treatment. Part 1.
Date: c.1932- Film
Recent advances in fracture treatment. Part 1.
Date: c.1932- Videos
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Recent advances in fracture treatment. Part 1.
Date: c.1932- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: 1930-1948Reference: GC/135/B.3/4Part of: Napsbury Mental Hospital, St Albans- Books
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The Rake's progress; or, The humours of Drury-Lane. A poem. In eight Canto's. In hudibrastick verse. Being the ramble of a modern Oxonian; which is a compleat key to the eight prints lately published by the celebrated Mr. Hogarth. I. A description of the miser his father; his being bred a Quaker; turning Churchman; his skill in Parish-offices; the education of the son; his intrigue at Oxford; the old one dies; he comes to his estate; and the humour of the lawyer palming the cole. II. He sets up for a fine gentleman; directs the opera's; an encomium on the immortal F-ll-i; his levee; a digression on the modern diversions of the town, and the masters of the several fashionable sciences, D-s the fencer, E- the dancer, the bully, the poet, &c. ... VI. He takes to gaming, frequents L-d M-ns; loses all his money; a gaming scene at night; an elogium on sharpers; and an invective against gaming. VII. He is carried over to the Fleet; description of the prisoners, viz. the politician and the chimist; he turns author, writes a play, sends it to Mr. R-ch, which is refused because 'tis too good. Some observations on the treatment of authors; Sally faints; the old woman, the jailor, and the Ale-house boy, open at once. VIII. He is discharged from prison; shuned by his acquaintance; runs mad; is carried to Bedlam; a description of it; of the several sorts of madmen, with the humours of that scene.
Date: 1735- Videos
Sir Horace Smirk.
Date: 1975- Archives and manuscripts
Abnormal flushing, blushing and sweating (2nd series)
Date: 1929-1954Reference: PP/FPW/B.118/2Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Archives and manuscripts
Circulars Book 60
Burroughs Wellcome & Company LimitedDate: 1942-1944Reference: WF/M/GB/01/55Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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A man (Woo Kinshing), facing front, with a massive tumour on the left side of his trunk. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, 1837.
Lam, Qua.Date: [after 1837]Reference: 651164i- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 7
Date: Aug 1903 - Jul 1904Reference: WF/E/01/01/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3']
Date: Mar 1890 - Nov 1896Reference: WF/E/01/01/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd