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Fig (Ficus carica L.): leaf and fruit. Coloured aquatint by G. Pera, c.1825, after O. Muzzi.
Muzzi, Ottavio.Date: [1825]Reference: 20352i- Pictures
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A fig plant (Ficus carica var.): fruiting stem and leaf. Coloured lithograph, c. 1869, after W. Fitch.
Fitch, W. H. (Walter Hood), 1817-1892.Date: 1869Reference: 28089i- Pictures
A naked woman standing up with a fig leaf covering her crotch. Pencil work and watercolour by Mary Lorraine, 1967.
Lorraine, Mary, active approximately 1967.Date: 8.4.67 [8 April 1967]Reference: 3001752iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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Adam's fig-leaf righteousness. The following composition took its rise from a serious consideration of one single expression, made use of in the pulpit of the outer kirk of Glasgow, by a young probationer, Mr James Galloway, when lecturing on the xxvth Psalm. The expression was, Adam's fig-leaf righteousness; from which expression this paraphrase has its title. By George Frazer.
Frazer, George.Date: 1785?]- Digital Images
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Carpobrotus acinaciformis (L.) L.Bolus Aizoaceae. Eland's Sour fig. Sally-my-handsome, its other common name is a corruption of Mesembryanthemum (acinaciforme) which was the genus ascribed to it by Linnaeus (1753) Succulent perennial. Distribution: South Africa. Antibacterial compounds have been isolated from it, it is rich in tannins. The leaf sap is used to treat infections of the mouth and throat. In South African ‘muthi’ medicine, the sap is used as a gargle for sore throats
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Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Opuntia humifusa Raf. Cactaceae Eastern prickly pear, Indian fig. Distribution: Eastern North America. Stearns (1801) reports 'OPUNTIA a species of cactus. The fruit is called the prickly pear. If eaten it turns the urine and milk in women's breast red'. This is likely to be Opuntia robusta. The ripe fruits are reported edible, raw, and the leaf pads also, either raw or cooked. The fine spines, glochids, cause severe skin irritation so should be wiped off or burnt off prior to cooking and eating. Moerman (1998) reports that O. hemifusa was widely used by Native American tribes for wounds, burns, snakebite, warts (fruit), and as a mordant for dyes used on leather. Widely used, with the spines removed, as a famine food, and dried for winter use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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A nude man posing as a classical statue. Photograph by Henry, 192-.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]Reference: 2046173iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
Ex gemmis et cameis antiquorum aliquot monumenta / ab Aenea Vico ... incis.
Vico, Enea, 1523-1567Date: [1700?]- Archives and manuscripts
Plant Disease
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/08/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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Adam and Eve committing the primal sin; representing the origin of AIDS. Colour lithograph after Pavel Beneš, 1991.
Beneš, Pavel, 1960-Date: 1991Reference: 668102i- Books
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Recueil de testes de caractère et de charges / dessinées par Leonard de Vinci ... et gravées par M. le C. de C. [i.e. le comte de Caylus].
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519Date: 1730- Pictures
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A man posing naked in a boxing stance with his fists raised, on a deserted beach.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 532537iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
Monstrorvm historia memorabilis, monstrosa hvmanorvm partvvm miracvla, stvpendis conformationvm formvlis ab vtero materno enata, viuis exemplis, obseruationibus, & picturis, referens. Accessit analogicum argumentum de monstris brvtis / Svpplementi loco ad Observationes medicas Schenckianas edita à Ioanne Georgio Schenckio a Grafenberg filio.
Schenck, Johann Georg, -approximately 1620.Date: 1609- Books
The lady anatomist : the life and work of Anna Morandi Manzolini / Rebecca Messbarger.
Messbarger, Rebecca Marie.Date: 2010- Pictures
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Different species of cimex, including the bedbug (fig. 1). Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1801.
Date: 20 June 1801Reference: 578678i- Pictures
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An emaciated naked man, displaying large swellings on his neck and groin, with smaller swellings visible on his chest, arms, abdomen and thigh. Process print, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 576912i- Archives and manuscripts
Sorin, Guillaume
Sorin, GuillaumeDate: 1737Reference: MS.4673- Books
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[The birth of mankinde, otherwyse named The womans booke].
Rösslin, Eucharius, -1526.Date: [c.1590]- Books
Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
Titford, William Jowit.Date: 1811- Books
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A catalogue of the entire library of the Rev. Ellis Jones, The Rev. Ellis Jones, Late of Christ-Church, Oxford, and vicar of Staverton, Northamptonshire. And of several other valuable Collections of Books; The whole forming a curious Assortment in every Branch of Literature, and containing many Articles in Superb Bindings. Caesar, a Clarke, Ch. Max. 2 vol. cor. Turc. Pindar, Oxon. charta maxima. Homer, Glasg. 4 vol. chart. max. cor. Russ. Xenophon, Paris. charta max. corio Turc. Xenophon, Hutchinsoni, 2 vol. charta mag. Diogenes Laertius, Meibomii, 2 vol. ch. max. Aeschylus, Stanleii, corio Russico. Plato, Serrani, 3 vol. ap. H. Steph. Plutarchus, Rualdi, Gr. & Lat. 4 vol. Ptolemaeus, Serveti, liber rariss. cor. Russ. Salustio, por el Insante Don Gabriel. A Set of Elzevir Classics, 52 vol. in Morocco. H. Steph. Thesaurus Gr. 5 vol. ch. max. cor. T. Plautus, Lambini, charta max. corio Turc. Virgilius, Servii, charta max. corio Turc. Suldae Lexicon, Kusteri, 3 vol. charta max. Diccion. Espan. de la Acad. Reale, 6 vol. Russ. Encyclopedie & Supplement, 35 tom. Par. Corpus Historiarum & Antiquitatum, 78 vol. Corpus Historicorum Byzantinorum, 29 vol. Rymeri Foedera, 20 vol. edit. opt. cor. Turc. Thuani Historia Buckleli, 7 vol. charta mag. Bouteroue, Monnoyes de la France. Chroniques de Froissart, a tom. lettres Goth. Voyages de M. Le Burn. 3 tom. grand papier. Harris's Collect. of Voyages, 2 vol. bested. Russ. Edmondson's Baronag. 5 vol. large pap. Mor. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglican. 3 vol. cor Russ. Dugdale's Monasticon, & Stevens's Con. 3 vol. Holingshed's Chronicles, 3 vol. with Illumin. Hortus Elthamensis, Dillenii, 2 vol. fig. depict. Hortus Eystettensis, 3 vol. fig. despictis. Jacquin, Hort. Vind. & Flora Aust. 9 vol. fig. d. Flora Danica, 15 Fascic. 5 vol. fig. depict. Buchoz, Histoire Naturelle, 9 tom. fig. enlum. Sepp's Birds and Insects, beautifully coloured. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. finely coloured. Knorr's Natural History, 12 vol. finely col. Martyn's Shells, most elegantly coloured. Baron Born's Shells, finely coloured. K. of Denmark's Book of Shells, finely col. Petiver's Works of Nat. History, 2 vol. Mor. Linnaei Museum Adolphi Frederici Regis. D'argenville, Conchyliologie, 3 tom. nouv. ed. Pennant's Works in N. Hist. &c. 14 vol. gr. Mor. Annibal, Aug. & Lud. Caraccis, Works, 3 vol. Crozat's Collection of Prints, 2 vol. first imp. Habits du Levant, avec figures enluminees. Fables & Contes de M. La Fontaine, les belles ed. Montfaucon, Antiq. & Supp. 15 tom. la meill. ed. Museum Florentinum, 10 vol. impressio eleg. Baleu's Atlas. 11 vol. fine copy, gilt leaves. Andersoni Diplomata & Numismata Scotiae. Blomsield and Parkyns's Norfolk, 5 vol. Russ. Sir Henry Chauncy's Hertfordshire. Carew on the Rights of Elections. Caxton's Siege and Conquest of Jerusalem. Capt. Cook's last Voyage, 3 vol. first impress. Walpole's Painters, &c. 5 vol. Str. Hill, gr. M. Parliametary History and Debates, 100 vol. The Sale will begin on Wednesday, February 1, 1786. By Benjamin White and son, Booksellers at Horace's Head, in Fleet-Street, London. N. B. The lowest Prices are marked in the Catalogue, and in the first Leaf of every Book. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale; also of Mr. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Mr. Faulder, in New Bond-Street; Mr. Debrett, Piccadilly; Mr. Sewell, in Cronhill; the Booksellers of Oxford, Cambridge, and the principal Towns of England.
Benjamin White and Son.Date: 1786]- Books
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Recueil de pieces concernant l'operation de la taille / [Claude-Nicolas Le Cat].
Le Cat, Claude-Nicolas, 1700-1768Date: 1752- Books
The byrth of mankynd, otherwyse named the womans boke / Newly set forth, corrected and augmented, whose co[n]tentes ye may reade in thee table of the boke, and moste playnely in the prologue. By Thomas Raynald Phisition.
Rösslin, Eucharius, -1526.Date: Anno. M.D.Lii. [1552]- Archives and manuscripts
Insects & Crops
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/10/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Insects & Crops
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/10/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd