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A treatise of a miliary fever, with a collection of histories relating thereto : to which are prefix'd, rules for the practice of physick / written originally in Latin by the learned Sir David Hamilton.
Hamilton, David, Sir, 1663-1721.Date: 1737- Books
Epidemie d'altri tempi : La febbre miliare (il sudore anglico) e la sua contagiosità / Pier Luigi Mondani. La dottrina del controstimolo ed alcune storie cliniche di Giovanni Rasori.
Date: 1969- Books
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De la suette : thèse pour le doctorat en médecine, présentée et soutenue le 18 juillet 1853 / par J.-N. Fonbel-Martin.
Fonbel-Martin, J.N.Date: 1853- Books
The epidemics of the Middle Ages / from the German of J.F.C. Hecker ... ; translated by B.G. Babington.
Hecker, J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl), 1795-1850.Date: 1844- Books
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A boke, or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate, or sweatyng sicknesse. Made by Ihon Caius doctour in phisicke. Very necessary for euerye personne, and muche requisite to be had in the handes of al sortes, for their better instruction, preparacion and defence, against the soubdein comyng, and fearful assaultying of the-same [sic] disease.
Caius, John, 1510-1573Date: 1552- Books
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The Lord Bacons relation of the sweating-sickness examined, in a reply to George Thomson ... Together with a defence of phlebotomy in general, and also particularly in the plague, smallpox, scurvey, and pleurisie in opposition to the same author and the author of Medela medicinae [i.e. M. Nedham], Doctor Whitaker, and Doctor Sydenham. Also a relation concerning the strange symptomes happening upon the bite of the adder: and a reply, by way of preface to the calumnies of Eccebolius [i.e. Joseph] Glanvile / [Henry Stubbe].
Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.Date: 1671- Books
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A worthy practise of the moste learned phisition Maister Leonerd Fuchsius, Doctor in phisicke, moste necessary in this needfull tyme of our visitation, for the comforte of all good and faythfull people, both olde and yonge, bothe for the sicke and for them that woulde auoyde the daunger of the contagion.
Fuchs, Leonhart, 1501-1566Date: [1563]- Books
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Johannis Caii Britanni de ephemera Britannica liber unus, summâ curâ recognitus.
Caius, John, 1510-1573.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
Die letzte grosse Epidemie von Suette Miliaire (1887) / [Hans Urs Keller].
Keller, Hans Urs.Date: 1970- Books
Der Englische Schweiss, 1529 / [Euricius Cordus] ; herausgegeben ... von G. Mann.
Cordus, Euricius, 1484-1535.Date: 1967- Books
The epidemics of the Middle Ages / From the German of J.F.C. Hecker ; translated by B.G. Babington. Completed by the author's treatise on child-pilgrimages.
Hecker, J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl), 1795-1850.Date: 1859- Books
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Historia febris miliaris, et de hemicrania dissertatio. Auctore Joanne Fordyce, M.D. Accedit de morbo miliari epistola Caroli Balguy, M.D.
Fordyce, John, 1716-1760.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Archives and manuscripts
Collected papers on epidemic diseases and plague
Date: c.1805-c.1920Reference: MS.1719- Books
A boke or counseill against the disease called the sweate (1552) / John Caius ; edited by Archibald Malloch.
Caius, John, 1510-1573.Date: 1937- Archives and manuscripts
Fraser-Harris, David Fraser (1867-1937)
Fraser-Harris, David Fraser, 1867-1937Date: 1928-1933Reference: MSS.8109-8112, 8114-8120, 8122, 8234-8255 & 8968-8989- Books
Deceased diseases / J.S. Murray.
Murray, J. S.Date: 1937- Books
Deceased diseases / by David Riesman.
Riesman, David, 1867-1940Date: 1936- Archives and manuscripts
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Greek Medical Texts
Date: Early 15th centuryReference: MS.MSL.60- Books
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General medical principles and cautions. Founded on facts, supported by reason, and confirmed by Experience. In three parts. Shewing when Bleeding, Vomiting, Purging, Sweating, and Blistering, &c. ought, and ought not to be advised. Published for the Sake of preventing the innumerable ill Consequences, which happen to sick People, from the indiscriminate Use of these Remedies. By Theophilus Lobb, M.D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, and Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
Lobb, Theophilus, 1678-1763.Date: 1753- Digital Images
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Atropa belladonna L. Solanaceae. Deadly nightshade. Dwale. Morella, Solatrum, Hound's berries, Uva lupina, Cucubalus, Solanum lethale. Atropa derives from Atropos the oldest of the three Fates of Greek mythology who cut the thread of Life (her sisters Clotho and Lachesis spun and measured the thread, respectively). belladonna, literally, means 'beautiful lady' and was the Italian name for it. Folklore has it that Italian ladies put drops from the plant or the fruits in their eyes to make themselves doe-eyed, myopic and beautiful. However, this is not supported by the 16th and 17th century literature, where no mention is ever made of dilated pupils (or any of the effects of parasympathetic blockade). Tournefort (1719) says 'The Italians named this plant Belladonna, which in their language signifies a beautiful woman, because the ladies use it much in the composition of their Fucus [rouge or deceit or cosmetic] or face paint.' Parkinson says that the Italian ladies use the distilled juice as a fucus '... peradventure [perhaps] to take away their high colour and make them looke paler.' I think it more likely that they absorbed atropine through their skin and were slightly 'stoned' and disinhibited, which made them beautiful ladies in the eyes of Italian males. Distribution: Europe, North Africa, western Asia. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Solanum. Nightshade: very cold and dry, binding … dangerous given inwardly … outwardly it helps the shingles, St Antonie's Fire [erysipelas] and other hot inflammation.' Most of the 16th, 17th and 18th century herbals recommend it topically for breast cancers. Poisonous plants were regarded as 'cold' plants as an excess of them caused death and the body became cold. They were regarded as opposing the hot humour which kept us warm and alive. Poultices of Belladonna leaves are still recommended for muscle strain in cyclists, by herbalists. Gerard (1633) writes that it: 'causeth sleep, troubleth the mind, bringeth madnesse if a few of the berries be inwardly taken, but if more be taken they also kill...'. He was also aware that the alkaloids could be absorbed through the skin for he notes that a poultice of the leaves applied to the forehead, induces sleep, and relieves headache. The whole plant contains the anticholinergic alkaloid atropine, which blocks the peripheral actions of acetylcholine in the parasympathetic nervous system. Atropine is a racemic mixture of d- and l- hyoscyamine. Atropine, dropped into the eyes, blocks the acetylcholine receptors of the pupil so it no longer constricts on exposure to bright light - so enabling an ophthalmologist to examine the retina with an ophthalmoscope. Atropine speeds up the heart rate, reduces salivation and sweating, reduces gut motility, inhibits the vertigo of sea sickness, and is used to block the acetylcholine receptors to prevent the effects of organophosphorous and other nerve gas poisons. It is still has important uses in medicine. Atropine poisoning takes three or for days to wear off, and the hallucinations experienced by its use are described as unpleasant. We have to be content with 'madness', 'frenzie' and 'idle and vain imaginations' in the early herbals to describe the hallucinations of atropine and related alkaloids as the word 'hallucination' in the sense of a perception for which there is no external stimulus, was not used in English until 1646 (Sir T. Browne, 1646). It is a restricted herbal medicine which can only be sold in premises which are registered pharmacies and by or under the supervision of a pharmacist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Brugmansia suaveolens 'Pink Beauty'
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Brugmansia suaveolens'Pink Beauty'
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Pain, pus and poison.
Date: 2013- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera. Box 44.
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Callicarpa bodinieri var giraldii 'Profusion'
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