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Circa instans
Date: Mid 15th CenturyReference: MS.624- Audio
The seven ages of science. 2/7 Age of exploration.
Date: 2013- Digital Images
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Salvia coahuilensis Fernald Lamiaceae Coahuila Sage. Perennial shrub. Distribution: Mexico. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Its health giving properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
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M0007293: Manuscript illustration of patients suffering from edema and toothache
Date: 6 September 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/62/69Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Digital Images
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Salvia nemorosa L. Lamiaceae Woodland sage. Balkan clary Distribution: Central Europe, Western Asia. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Linnaeus (1782) also: 'Timor, Languor, Leucorrhoea, Senectus [fear, tiredness, white vaginal discharge, old age]'. Its health giving and immortality conferring properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
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Miscellany of practical medicine, in Italian
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.Date: Late 14th CenturyReference: MS.307- Books
A supplement to the Onania, or, The heinous sin of self-pollution, and all its frightful consequences, in both sexes consider'd, &c. Containing, some further remarks of the mischiefs, by this practice ... refuting the malicious charges in a late scurrilous libel, intitled, Onania examin'd and detected ... : to which is added, a curious piece ... translated out of the Latin from L. Sckmeider ... as also, Dr. Quincy's translation of Dr. Carr's remarkable answer to a letter sent him by a divine, concerning two nuns at Rome, reported to have chang'd their sex likewise, Dr. Drake's, and several other physicians opinions of hermaphrodites, and women brought to a resemblance of them, by the practice of self-pollution.
Date: [1729?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Pseudo-Mesue, Opera, in Italian
Date: c. 1460-1475Reference: MS.492- Archives and manuscripts
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Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum; Johannes de Sancto Paulo, De simplicium medicinarum virtutibus and Flores dietarum
Date: 1478Reference: MS.458- Archives and manuscripts
Heberden Collection
The Heberden LibraryDate: 1684-1994Reference: SA/HEB- Archives and manuscripts
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Livre des simples médecines, in French
Date: c. 1470Reference: MS.626