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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles
Some people will use a dose of ginger to help with hangovers – but it hasn’t always been a friend to the thirsty.
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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The Healing Power of Chinese Herbs and Medicinal Recipes.
Russo, Ethan B.Date: 2012- Digital Images
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Dianthus caryophyllus L. Caryophyllaceae Carnation, clove-gilliflowers - Mediterranean Culpeper (1650) writes that ‘Clove-gilliflowers, resist the pestilence, strengthen the heart, liver and stomach, and provokes lust.’ They smell strongly of cloves, and an oil made from the petals is used in perfumery, soaps etc. The petals are sometimes used as a garnish for salads. In herbal medicine they are used to make a tonic. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Ephemera
Flitwick : an English medicinal spring which yields the most invigorating tonic in the world ... for anaemia (poorness of blood), rheumatism, indigestion, general debility, and neuralgia, and is the most invigorating tonic in the world ... wholesale depot: 63 Borough High Street, S.E.
Date: [1891?]- Pictures
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A priest pouring Elisir del Prete into a cup; advertising the tonic Elisir del Prete. Colour lithograph, ca. 1910.
Date: [1910?]Reference: 659718i- Pictures
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A centaur advertising "Centaure" tonic wine made of Alpine plants. Colour lithograph.
Date: [1920?]Reference: 43394i