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Inflammation of the eye and injuries to health by arsenical wall-paper poisoning / by Jabez Hogg.
Hogg, Jabez, 1817-1899.Date: 1879- Digital Images
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Chinese C18 woodcut: External eye - Blepharitis
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Letters from Jenner to Mrs Meade of Chatley Lodge, near Bath
Edward Jenner, 1749-1823Date: June 1812 - November 1812Reference: MS.5238Part of: Jenner family and associated individuals- Digital Images
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Calendula officinalis L. Asteraceae. Pot marigold, common marigold, ruds or ruddles. Calendula, because it was said to flower most commonly at the first of each month - the 'calends' (Coles, 1657). officinalis indicates that it was used in the 'offices' - the clinics - of the monks in medieval times. Annual herb. Distribution: Southern Europe. The Doctrine of Signatures, indicated that as the flowers resembled the pupil of the eye (along with Arnica, Inula and the ox-eye daisy), it was good for eye disorders (Porta, 1588). Coles (1658) writes '... the distilled water ... helpeth red and watery eyes, being washed therewith, which it does by Signature, as Crollius saith'. Culpeper writes: [recommending the leaves] '... loosen the belly, the juice held in the mouth helps the toothache and takes away any inflammation, or hot swelling being bathed with it mixed with a little vinegar.' The petals are used as a saffron substitute - ‘formerly much employed as a carminative
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
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Lehrbuch der gesammten Entzündungen : und organischen Krankheiten des menschlichen Auges, seiner Schutz - und Hilfsorgane / von Johan Nepomuk Fischer.
Fischer, Johann Nepomuk, 1777-1848.Date: 1846- Books
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A probationary surgical essay on the syphilitic inflammation of the iris : submitted, ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, ... / By Adam Hunter.
Hunter, Adam, 1791-1870.Date: 1815- Books
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Ophthalmic Hospital reports, and Journal of the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. No. XI. April, 1860.
Moorfields Eye Hospital.Date: 1860- Books
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A case of choroidal inflammation, with permanent loss of vision, caused by excessive use of the eyes during a comparatively short period of time / by D.B. St. John Roosa.
Roosa, D. B. St. John (Daniel Bennett St. John), 1838-1908.Date: [1904]- Books
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Questions de thèse présentées et publiquement soutenues à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 18 mai 1838 / par A.-J.-B. Merlane.
Merlane, A.J.B.Date: 1838- Books
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Thèse soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 23 juin 1838 / par Eudore Baldou.
Baldou, Eudore.Date: 1838- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera. Box 94.
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Charcot Leyden crystals from an endobronchial lesion
William R. Geddie- Digital Images
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Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
Thermal Vision Research, Wellcome Collection- Digital Images
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Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
Thermal Vision Research, Wellcome Collection- Digital Images
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Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
Thermal Vision Research, Wellcome Collection- Digital Images
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Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
Thermal Vision Research, Wellcome Collection- Digital Images
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Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
Thermal Vision Research, Wellcome Collection- Digital Images
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Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
Thermal Vision Research, Wellcome Collection- Digital Images
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Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
Thermal Vision Research, Wellcome Collection- Digital Images
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Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
Thermal Vision Research, Wellcome Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Bell, John Pearson: Commonplace Book
Bell, John Pearson, MD, JP (1808-1886)Date: c.1826-1884Reference: MS.8787- Books
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Transactions of the Medico-Botanical Society of London, for 1832 and 1833.
Medico-Botanical Society of London.Date: 1834- Digital Images
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Atropa belladonna L. Solanaceae. Deadly nightshade. Dwale. Morella, Solatrum, Hound's berries, Uva lupina, Cucubalus, Solanum lethale. Atropa derives from Atropos the oldest of the three Fates of Greek mythology who cut the thread of Life (her sisters Clotho and Lachesis spun and measured the thread, respectively). belladonna, literally, means 'beautiful lady' and was the Italian name for it. Folklore has it that Italian ladies put drops from the plant or the fruits in their eyes to make themselves doe-eyed, myopic and beautiful. However, this is not supported by the 16th and 17th century literature, where no mention is ever made of dilated pupils (or any of the effects of parasympathetic blockade). Tournefort (1719) says 'The Italians named this plant Belladonna, which in their language signifies a beautiful woman, because the ladies use it much in the composition of their Fucus [rouge or deceit or cosmetic] or face paint.' Parkinson says that the Italian ladies use the distilled juice as a fucus '... peradventure [perhaps] to take away their high colour and make them looke paler.' I think it more likely that they absorbed atropine through their skin and were slightly 'stoned' and disinhibited, which made them beautiful ladies in the eyes of Italian males. Distribution: Europe, North Africa, western Asia. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Solanum. Nightshade: very cold and dry, binding … dangerous given inwardly … outwardly it helps the shingles, St Antonie's Fire [erysipelas] and other hot inflammation.' Most of the 16th, 17th and 18th century herbals recommend it topically for breast cancers. Poisonous plants were regarded as 'cold' plants as an excess of them caused death and the body became cold. They were regarded as opposing the hot humour which kept us warm and alive. Poultices of Belladonna leaves are still recommended for muscle strain in cyclists, by herbalists. Gerard (1633) writes that it: 'causeth sleep, troubleth the mind, bringeth madnesse if a few of the berries be inwardly taken, but if more be taken they also kill...'. He was also aware that the alkaloids could be absorbed through the skin for he notes that a poultice of the leaves applied to the forehead, induces sleep, and relieves headache. The whole plant contains the anticholinergic alkaloid atropine, which blocks the peripheral actions of acetylcholine in the parasympathetic nervous system. Atropine is a racemic mixture of d- and l- hyoscyamine. Atropine, dropped into the eyes, blocks the acetylcholine receptors of the pupil so it no longer constricts on exposure to bright light - so enabling an ophthalmologist to examine the retina with an ophthalmoscope. Atropine speeds up the heart rate, reduces salivation and sweating, reduces gut motility, inhibits the vertigo of sea sickness, and is used to block the acetylcholine receptors to prevent the effects of organophosphorous and other nerve gas poisons. It is still has important uses in medicine. Atropine poisoning takes three or for days to wear off, and the hallucinations experienced by its use are described as unpleasant. We have to be content with 'madness', 'frenzie' and 'idle and vain imaginations' in the early herbals to describe the hallucinations of atropine and related alkaloids as the word 'hallucination' in the sense of a perception for which there is no external stimulus, was not used in English until 1646 (Sir T. Browne, 1646). It is a restricted herbal medicine which can only be sold in premises which are registered pharmacies and by or under the supervision of a pharmacist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1940Reference: WF/M/GB/30/11Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1938-1939Reference: WF/M/GB/30/10Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd