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- Archives and manuscripts
Papers on Malaria and Filariasis
Date: 1967-1985Reference: WTI/HAW/D/24Part of: Hawking, Frank- Digital Images
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Aconitum carmichaelii Debeaux. Ranunculaceae. Chinese aconite, Chinese wolfsbane, Carmichael's monkshood. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution C. to W. China to N. America. Named for Dr J.R. Carmichael (d. 1877), English physician, plant collector and Protestant missionary from 1862-1877 in Guangdong and Shandong, China initially in Canton. He aided Francis Forbes to collect plants for Kew. Aconitum plants are so poisonous that Theophrastus states that death was the punishment for possessing them. Aconitine is the poison and was used - from Aconitum ferox - in the 'curry murder' in London in 2009. It causes respiratory paralysis, bradycardia (slowing of the pulse), cardiac arrhythmias, tingling, sweating, gastric cramps, diarrhoea and death, both by ingestion and by absorption through the mucous membranes and the skin. Despite this it is widely used in Chinese herbal medicine. It is a restricted herbal medicine which can only be dispensed by a herbal practitioner for external use following a one-to-one consultation, or by prescription from a registered doctor or dentist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Maps
Distribution of helminthiases / [prepared by] the American Geographical Society.
Date: [1952], ©1952- Digital Images
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Eupatorium fortunei
Rowan McOnegal- Pictures
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A Greenwich Pensioner sits at table, eating soup, attended [?] by three others: all are disabled in various ways. Lithograph.
Reference: 31326i- Digital Images
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Rhamnus cathartica (Common buckthorn)
Rowan McOnegal- Digital Images
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Eupatorium purpureum (Gravel root). Also known as Joe Pye weed.
Rowan McOnegal- Pictures
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A variety of rhizopods, some cross-sectioned. Line block.
Reference: 41794i- Pictures
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A variety of rhizopods, some cross-sectioned. Line block.
Reference: 41793i- Pictures
A woman eating from a plate and a monkey eating fruit; representing the monkey's higher sense of taste. Engraving by G. Pencz.
Pencz, Georg, 1500?-1550.Reference: 27162i- Books
The necessity for regulating the amount of fluid ingested in cases of cardiac failure / by James Barr.
Barr, JamesDate: 1888- Archives and manuscripts
Laxante Vegetal
Date: 1958-1964Reference: WF/M/PL/175Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Use of ergot alkaloids for the suppression of post-partum haemorrhage, comparison of side-effects, the effects of ingesting sclerotia
Date: 1932-1973Reference: PP/JCM.2Part of: Moir, Professor John Chassar- Books
Milk or formula volume ingested by infants fed ad libitum / Samuel J. Fomon, George M. Owen and Lora N. Thomas.
Fomon, Samuel J., 1923-Date: 1976- Film
Introduction to acute inflammation.
Date: 1966- Videos
Digestion and absorption.
Date: 1988- Digital Images
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Metamorphosis of Filaria bancrofti.
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Amoebiasis: microscopic view of blood and mucus, showing large forms of Entamoeba histolytica with ingested red corpuscles; above, eosinophils. Watercolour by P.H. Manson-Bahr, ca. 1930.
Manson-Bahr, Philip H. (Philip Henry), Sir, 1881-1966.Date: 1930Reference: 570570i- Pictures
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A crane inserts its beak into the mouth of a wolf; illustrating Aesop's fable. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614.Date: 1622Reference: 26680iPart of: XL Emblemata miscella nova- Pictures
The face of a man suffering from dermatitis medicamentosa of the pustulo-bullous type, following the injestion of potassium iodid. Process print after a photograph, ca. 1905.
Date: 1905Reference: 576405i- Digital Images
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Calcium oxalate crystals in urinary sediment
William R. Geddie- Digital Images
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Hyoscyamus niger (Henbane)
Rowan McOnegal- Digital Images
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Datura stramonium (Thornapple) Also called Jimsonweed
Sue Snell- Archives and manuscripts
Colitis, dysentery etc (2nd series)
Date: 1910-1935Reference: PP/FPW/B.67/2/1Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Digital Images
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Hyoscyamus niger (Henbane)
Sue Snell