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![Lobelia tupa L Campanulaceae Tabaco del Diablo [Devil's tobacco]. Distribution: Central Chile. Dried leaves are smoked as a hallucinogen by the Mapuchu Indians of Chile. It was also used as a respiratory stimulant. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B0009065/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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Summer festival : all welcome : Royal Foundation of St. Katherine, London E14 : 2 September 2000 ... /cLesbian & Gay Christians.
Date: [2000]- Books
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Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent. With the dissolved monasteries therein contained; Their Founders, and what eminent Persons have been therein interred. As also, the Death and Burial of certain of the Blood-Royal, nobility and gentry of these kingdoms, entombed in foreign nations. Intermixed and illustrated with variety of historical observations, annotations, and brief notes; Extracted out of Approved Authors, Infallible Records, Leidger Books, Charters, Rolls, Old Manuscripts, and the collections of judicious antiquaries. Whereunto is prefixed, A Discourse on Funeral Monuments, Containing an Account of the Foundation and Fall of Religious Houses-Of Religious Orders-Of the Ecclesiastical State of England-And of other Occurrences touched upon throughout the Work, By John Weever.
Weever, John, 1576-1632.Date: M.DCC.LXVII. [1767]- Books
Six years experience of hydroxyapatite ceramic coated hip prostheses : [the proceedings of the one day memorial symposium to Professor Dr. Med Johannes-Friedrich Osborn held at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on Thursday 31st October 1991] / [presented by Ronald Furlong].
Date: [1992], ©1992
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Order of St. John of Jerusalem : a brief notice of its foundation and constitution, and of its objects in England.
Grand Priory in the British Realm of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.Date: 1878
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St. Thomas's Hospital, from its foundation to 1553 : chiefly from a manuscript book in the library of the Earl of Ashburnham, now in the British Museum / by W. Rendle.
Rendle, William, 1811-1893.Date: [1882?]