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The lethal chamber.
Birmingham Home for Lost Dogs.Date: 1893- Ephemera
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We've lost your fleas : we don't want to lose you! : why buy an ordinary flea collar when you could buy a unique one that also identifies your pet if it wanders from home? / Sherley's Ltd.
Sherley's Ltd.Date: [2000?]- Videos
Family affair.
Date: 1964- Film
Family affair.
Date: 1964- Videos
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Family affair.
Date: 1964- Videos
The pill : prescription for revolution.
Date: 1993- Digital Images
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Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Videos
Diabetes : the hidden killer.
Date: 2016- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 2
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1912 - 1921Reference: WF/M/GB/35/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 7
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1935 - 1940Reference: WF/M/GB/35/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Ephemera
Death and dying ephemera. Box 1.
- Archives and manuscripts
Press Adverts - Horticultural [and domestic household]
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: c 1933 - c 1939Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Mellanby, Sir Edward
Mellanby, Edward, Sir, b. 1884.Date: 1896-1974Reference: PP/MEL- Digital Images
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Paeonia mascula ssp arietina
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Paeonia officinalis 'Flore Pleno'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Paeonia officinalis 'Flore Pleno'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
- Online
Paeonia officinalis 'Flore Pleno'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Paeonia officinalis 'Flore Pleno'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
The withering child / John A. Gould.
Gould, John A., 1944-Date: [1993]- Archives and manuscripts
Board Meeting Papers, Secretariat [William Cooper & Nephews / Cooper, McDougall & Robertson]
Date: Jan 1920 - Jun 1971Reference: WF/C/E/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 12
Date: January - March 1903Reference: WF/E/03/12Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 1 ['HSW Private No.1']
Date: Aug 1882-Mar 1888Reference: WF/E/01/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd