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Cynara cardunculus L. Asteraceae. Cardoon, Globe Artichoke, Artechokes, Scolymos cinara, Cynara, Cinara. Distribution: Southern Europe and North Africa. Lyte (1576) writes that Dodoens (1552) could find no medical use for them and Galen (c.200 AD) said they were indigestible unless cooked. However he relates that other authors recommend that if the flower heads are soaked in strong wine, they 'provoke urine and stir up lust in the body.' More prosaically, the roots boiled in wine and drunk it cause the urine to be 'stinking' and so cures smelly armpits. He adds that it strengthens the stomach so causing women to conceive Male children. He goes on to say that the young shoots boiled in broth also stir up lust in men and women, and more besides. Lyte (1576) was translating, I think with elaborations, from the chapter on Scolymos cinara, Artichaut, in Dodoen's Croydeboeck (1552) as L'Ecluse's French translation (1575) does not mention these latter uses, but Dodoen's own Latin translation, the Pemptades(1583), and Gerard's (1633) both do so. It is useful in understanding the history of these translations to realise that Gerard uses, almost verbatim, the translation of the 'smelly armpit' paragraph from Lyte. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Cynara cardunculus L. Asteraceae. Cardoon, Globe Artichoke, Artechokes, Scolymos cinara, Cynara, Cinara. Distribution: Southern Europe and North Africa. Lyte (1576) writes that Dodoens (1552) could find no medical use for them and Galen (c.200 AD) said they were indigestible unless cooked. However, he relates that other authors recommend that if the flower heads are soaked in strong wine, they 'provoke urine and stir up lust in the body.' More prosaically, the roots boiled in wine and drunk it cause the urine to be 'stinking' and so cures smelly armpits. He adds that it strengthens the stomach so causing women to conceive Male children. He goes on to say that the young shoots boiled in broth also stir up lust in men and women, and more besides. Lyte (1576) was translating, I think with elaborations, from the chapter on Scolymos cinara, Artichaut, in Dodoen's Croydeboeck (1552) as L'Ecluse's French translation, Dodoens Histoire des Plantes (1575) does not mention these latter uses, but Dodoen's own Latin translation, the Pemptades (1583), and Gerard's Herbal (1633) both do so. It is useful in understanding the history of these translations to realise that Gerard uses, almost verbatim, the translation of the 'smelly armpit' paragraph from Lyte. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Plate 6, Surgical anatomy of the axilla.
N. H. Jacob- Digital Images
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Plate LXV, Post-mortem view of enlarged lymphoma glands.
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Acu-moxa chart: Heart Envelope channel of hand jueyin
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Pec Spectacular.
Date: [between 1980 and 2000]Reference: 3304964iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
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A man helps two people, one of them a surgeon, suffering from plague. Drawing, c. 1789, after P. Mignard.
Mignard, Pierre, 1612-1695.Date: c. 1789Reference: 29089i- Pictures
A man helps two people, one of them a surgeon, suffering from plague. Drawing, c. 1789, after P. Mignard.
Mignard, Pierre, 1612-1695.Date: c. 1789Reference: 29015i- Digital Images
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Man with smallpox
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M0002793: "Physician opening a bubo of a plague patient"
Date: 28 January 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/23/62Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
A surgical operation. Oil painting by or in the style of Jan Josef Horemans I.
Horemans, Jan Josef, 1682-1759.Date: [between 1720 and 1729?]Reference: 44993i- Pictures
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A surgeon treating a man's dislocated shoulder. Lithograph by W.P. Cocks, ca. 1831.
Cocks, W. P.Date: [1831?]Reference: 568297i- Digital Images
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Acu-moxa chart: heart channel of hand shaoyin, Chinese
Luo Shaoji- Digital Images
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Acu-moxa chart: spleen channel of foot taiyin, Chinese
Luo Shaoji- Digital Images
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Treatment of acute pathologies, bowel disease, lithograph
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When good boobs turn bad : a mammoir / Jill Foer Hirsch.
Hirsch, Jill FoerDate: [2013]- Digital Images
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C19 Chinese MS moxibustion point chart: Underarm odour point
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The complete guide to breast cancer : how to feel empowered and take control / Trisha Greenhalgh, Liz O'Riordan.
Greenhalgh, TrishaDate: [2018]- Pictures
Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa in 1799. Engraving by F. Pigeot after A.J. Gros, 1804.
Gros, Antoine-Jean, Baron, 1771-1835.Date: 1804Reference: 10094i- Digital Images
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Channel chart: Yang Tie Vessel, Chinese woodcut
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M0008700: Two images of an Aboriginal Australian healer working on a patient, Kakadu
Date: 1942Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/76/9Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
The plague of the Israelites. Engraving by G. Audran after P. Mignard.
Mignard, Pierre, 1612-1695.Reference: 10122i- Archives and manuscripts
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Gumbrell, Doug
Date: 26/09/2009Reference: TP1/A/1977Part of: One and Other Project- Digital Images
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Acu-moxa chart: yangwei mai (Yang Tie Vessel), Chinese
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Myrtus communis L. Myrtaceae Myrtle Distribution: Europe. Dioscorides (Beck, 2005) recommends the fruit for treating haemoptysis (‘spitting blood’) and cystitis, and, if boiled, he said it made a fine wine. In various forms it was used as a hair dye, for sore eyes, anal and uterine prolapse, dandruff and shingles, all sorts of inflammations, scorpion bites and even sweaty armpits. Our plant has white berries, but he regarded those with black berries (they become black later in the season) as being more effective. Lyte (1576) adds that the juice of the berries kept the hair black and stopped it falling out, and prevented intoxication. He notes that it only flowered in hot summers in England, but it is reliable in flower now, either due to global warming or selection of suitable clones. According to Lyte, it is named after Merlyne, a fair maiden of Athens in ancient Greece, who judged the athletic games. Slain by a disgruntled competitor, the goddess Minerva brought her back as the myrtle tree in perpetual memory. The myrtle tree is also an ancient Jewish symbol for peace and justice. Myrtle wine is still made in Tuscany and now even in China. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley