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Anticipation! Peter Porcupine's descent into hell; or, An elegy on his death. A mock-heroic poem. By Henry Hedgehog.
Carey, James, -1801.Date: 1797- Books
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Anticipation! Peter Porcupine's descent into hell: or, An elegy on his death. A mock-heroic poem by Henry Hedgehog.
Carey, James, -1801.Date: September 25, 1797- Books
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Disquisitiones neurologicae : dissertatio quam auctoritate gratiosi medicorum ordinis ut professionem medicam ordinariam in Universitate Literaria Vratislaviensi rite auspicatus habeatur scripsit dieque XVI Julii anni MDCCCXXXVI hora X / publice defendet Joann. Carol. Leopold. Barkowius ; assumpto socio Georg. Kontnyo.
Barkow, Hans Carl Leopold, 1798-1873.Date: [1836]- Books
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De textura et formatione spinarum et partium similium : dissertatio inauguralis quam consensu et auctoritate gratiosi medicorum ordinis in Universitate Litterarum Caesarea Dorpatensi ad gradum doctoris medicinae rite adipiscendum loco consueto publice defendet / auctor Gustavus Broecker.
Broecker, Gustav.Date: 1849- Pictures
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Wood hedgehog fungus (Hydnum repandum), pennywort plant (Hydrocotyle species) and a sac fungus (Hysterium sphaerioides). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1810.
Date: 31 March 1810Reference: 25544i- Books
The hedgehog, the fox and the magister's pox : mending and minding the misconceived gap between science and the humanities / Stephen Jay Gould.
Gould, Stephen Jay.Date: 2003- Books
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The Christian mans closet : Wherein is conteined a large discourse of the godly training vp of children: as also of those duties that children owe vnto their parents, made dialogue wise, very pleasant to reade, and most profitable to practise, collected in Latin by Bartholomew Batty of Alostensis. And nowe Englished by William Lowth.
Batt, Barthélemy, 1515-1559Date: 1581- Pictures
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Above, an ephemera fly, a wild horse, a madagascar hedgehog, an euphorbia plant, a flying fish and a golden eagle; below, a stone falcon, a french eagle and a bald buzzard. Engraving by Heath.
Reference: 40508i- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: 1937Reference: WA/BSR/PB/Rep/K.19Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: Jan 1936Reference: WA/BSR/PB/Rep/J.4Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: Jan 1935Reference: WA/BSR/PB/Rep/H.3Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research- Books
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The contemplation of mankinde : contayning a singuler discourse after the art of phisiognomie, on all the members and partes of man, as from the heade to the foote, in a more ample maner than hytherto hath beene published of any. In the place next after the chapter of the forehead, hath the phisiognomer added a proper treatise of the signification of sundrie lines seene in most mens foreheads: which in sundrie disputations with a skilfull Iew, he at the last obtayned. ... In the ende is a little treatise added of the signification of moles ... written by a worthie Grecian named Melampus. All which, englished by Thomas Hyll.
Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528-Date: 1571- Books
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A bone to gnaw for the democrats. By Peter Porcupine; Author of the bloody buoy, etc. etc. To which is prefixed a rod, for the backs of the critics; Containing an Historical Sketch of the Present State of Political Criticism in Great Britain; as exemplified in the Conduct of the Monthly, Critical, and Analytical Reviews, &c. &c. Interspersed with Anecdotes. By Humphrey Hedgehog.
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.Date: 1797- Pictures
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Two echidna setosa (a toothless burrowing mammal) sitting on a meadow near the water. Coloured etching by W. H. Lizars after C.H. Smith.
Smith, Charles Hamilton.Date: [1842]Reference: 40720i- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence on Medical Research Council trials
Date: 1972-1981Reference: PP/MCD/A/2Part of: Papers of Dr Colin McDougall (1924-2006)- 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- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: Nov 1934Reference: WA/BSR/PB/Rep/G.12Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: Aug 1934Reference: WA/BSR/PB/Rep/G.8Part of: Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research- Digital Images
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Zebrafish embryos with green fluorescent midlines
S. Roy & F. Muller- Digital Images
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Zebrafish embryos with green fluorescent notocords
S. Roy & F. Muller- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence
Date: 1963-1988Reference: PP/MCD/APart of: Papers of Dr Colin McDougall (1924-2006)- Books
The psychology of man's possible evolution / P.D. Ouspensky.
Uspenskiĭ, P. D. (Petr Demʹi︠a︡novich), 1878-1947Date: 1951- Ephemera
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Wonderful production of nature : the greatest human curiosity! Now in existence, Master Thomas Jones, the Cambrian Porcupine Youth!! ... is now exhibiting, for a short time, at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street.
Date: [1841]- Books
Future babble : why expert predictions are next to worthless, and you can do better / Dan Gardner.
Gardner, Dan, 1968-Date: [2010], ©2010