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The girl with no name

When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.

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  • Starting or changing treatment? : see how the combination you've been offered fits your lifestyle using the wheel, your personal pill planner, at www.aidsmap.com / NAM, British HIV Asociation, Crusaid.
  • Human longevity: recording the name, age, place of residence, and year of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799 / By James Easton. With anecdotes of the most remarkable.
  • Human longevity: recording the name, age, place of residence, and year of the decease of 1712 persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A.D. 66 to 1799 / By James Easton. With anecdotes of the most remarkable.
  • Rehmannia angulata (Oliv.)Hemsl. Scrophulariaceae Chinese foxglove. Distribution: China. Named for Joseph Rehmann ((1753-1831) German physician (Stearn, 1994) who emigrated to St Petersburg and became the personal physician to Tsar Nicholas 1. Rehmannia glutinosa is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for arthritis. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A history of the Daubeny Laboratory, Magdalen College, Oxford : to which is appended a list of the writings of Dr. Daubeny, and a register of the names of persons who have attended the chemical lectures of Dr. Daubeny from 1822 to 1867, as well as of those who have received instruction in the Laboratory up to the present time / by R.T. Günther ; with a preface by the president of Magdalen ; [with some additional papers].
  • An exact survey of the microcosmus or little world : being an anatomie, of the bodies of man and woman wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews and ligaments are accurately delineated. And curiously pasted together, so as at first sight you may behold all the outward parts of man and woman. And by turning up the several dissections of the paper take a view of all their inwards. With alphabetical referrences [sic] to every member and part of the body. Usefull for all doctors, chirurgeons, &c. As also for painters, carvers, and all persons that desire to be acquainted with the parts, and their names, in the bodies of man, or woman / [Johann Remmelin] ; Set forth by Michael Spaher of Tyrol ; And English'd by John Ireton ; And lastly perused and corrected, by several rare anatomists.
  • An exact survey of the microcosmus or little world : being an anatomie, of the bodies of man and woman wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews and ligaments are accurately delineated. And curiously pasted together, so as at first sight you may behold all the outward parts of man and woman. And by turning up the several dissections of the paper take a view of all their inwards. With alphabetical referrences [sic] to every member and part of the body. Usefull for all doctors, chirurgeons, &c. As also for painters, carvers, and all persons that desire to be acquainted with the parts, and their names, in the bodies of man, or woman / [Johann Remmelin] ; Set forth by Michael Spaher of Tyrol ; And English'd by John Ireton ; And lastly perused and corrected, by several rare anatomists.
  • An exact survey of the microcosmus or little world : being an anatomie, of the bodies of man and woman wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews and ligaments are accurately delineated. And curiously pasted together, so as at first sight you may behold all the outward parts of man and woman. And by turning up the several dissections of the paper take a view of all their inwards. With alphabetical referrences [sic] to every member and part of the body. Usefull for all doctors, chirurgeons, &c. As also for painters, carvers, and all persons that desire to be acquainted with the parts, and their names, in the bodies of man, or woman / [Johann Remmelin] ; Set forth by Michael Spaher of Tyrol ; And English'd by John Ireton ; And lastly perused and corrected, by several rare anatomists.
  • An exact survey of the microcosmus or little world : being an anatomie, of the bodies of man and woman wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews and ligaments are accurately delineated. And curiously pasted together, so as at first sight you may behold all the outward parts of man and woman. And by turning up the several dissections of the paper take a view of all their inwards. With alphabetical referrences [sic] to every member and part of the body. Usefull for all doctors, chirurgeons, &c. As also for painters, carvers, and all persons that desire to be acquainted with the parts, and their names, in the bodies of man, or woman / [Johann Remmelin] ; Set forth by Michael Spaher of Tyrol ; And English'd by John Ireton ; And lastly perused and corrected, by several rare anatomists.
  • Fuchsia magellanica Lam. Onagraceae. Hardy fuchsia. Semi-hardy shrub. Distribution: Mountainous regions of Chile and Argentina where they are called 'Chilco' by the indigenous people, the Mapuche. The genus was discovered by Charles Plumier in Hispaniola in 1696/7, and named by him for Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), German Professor of Medicine, whose illustrated herbal, De Historia Stirpium (1542) attempted the identification of the plants in the Classical herbals. It also contained the first accounts of maize, Zea mays, and chilli peppers, Capsicum annuum, then recently introduced from Latin America. He was also the first person to publish an account and woodcuts of foxgloves, Digitalis purpurea and D. lutea. The book contains 500 descriptions and woodcuts of medicinal plants, arranged in alphabetical order, and relied heavily on the De Materia Medica (c. AD 70) of Dioscorides. He was a powerful influence on the herbals of Dodoens, and thence to Gerard, L’Escluse and Henry Lyte. A small quarto edition appeared in 1551, and a two volume facsimile of the 1542 edition with commentary and selected translations from the Latin was published by Stanford Press in 1999. The original woodcuts were passed from printer to printer and continued in use for 232 years (Schinz, 1774). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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