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- Ephemera
Hair care ephemera. Box 5.
- Ephemera
Perfume ephemera. Box 1.
- Ephemera
Hair care ephemera. Box 8.
- Books
Mechanical massage : Barker vibrators, the world's standard : Barker hair driers / [James Barker].
Barker, James.Date: [1905?]- Pictures
- Online
A woman holds a magazine with her hair in rollers under a hair dryer with an interview about how to talk about AIDS; an advertisement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1991.
Date: 5/91 [May 1991]Reference: 667195i- Books
Electro-medical apparatus and ICALL electrical specialities /cI. Calvete Ltd.
I. Calvete Ltd.Date: [1923?]- Digital Images
- Online
Adiantum venustum D.Don Adiantaceae (although placed by some in Pteridaceae). Himalayan maidenhair fern. Small evergreen hardy fern. Distribution: Afghanistan-India. It gains its vernacular name from the wiry black stems that resemble hairs. Adiantum comes from the Greek for 'dry' as the leaflets remain permanently dry. The Cherokee used A. pedatum to make their hair shiny. Henry Lyte (1576), writing on A. capillus-veneris, notes that it restores hair, is an antidote to the bites of mad dogs and venomous beasts
Dr Henry Oakeley- Ephemera
Hair care ephemera. Box 3.
- Ephemera
- Online
The "Hazeline" brand of the active principles distilled from the bark of witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana... / Burroughs Wellcome and Co.
Burroughs Wellcome and Company.Date: 189u- Books
The answer's a lemon / Reckitt and Colman Pharmaceutical Division.
Date: [1975?]- Digital Images
- Online
Buddleia (Buddleja davidii) leaf
Lauren Holden- Pictures
China: a Manchu lady having her face painted, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19668i- 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- Archives and manuscripts
Veterinary recipe book, 18th century
Date: c.1856Reference: MS.9190- Videos
- Online
Removal of tonsils and adenoids.
Date: 1930- Archives and manuscripts
Hand-written book of recipes and remedies
Date: late 19th centuryReference: MS.9201- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Manuscript recipe book of Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville (1654-1744)
Date: 1662 - mid 18th centuryReference: MS.8903- Ephemera
Electrotherapy & vibrators ephemera. Box 1.
- Books
Symptoms--their causes & cures : how to understand and treat 265 health concerns / by the editors of Prevention magazine health books, Doug Dollemore [and 6 others] ; edited by Alice Feinstein.
Date: [1994]- Digital Images
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Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Bezoars, etc.
Li Jianyuan (Ming period, 1368-1644)