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Observations on fevers, especially those of the continued type; and on the scarlet fever attended with ulcerated sore-throat, as it appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne in the year 1778: together with a comparative view of that epidemic with the scarlet fever as described by authors, and the angina maligna. By John Clark, M.D. One of the Physicians to the Newcastle Dispensary.
Clark, John, 1744-1805.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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A complete English dispensatory: containing the general nature and medicinal virtues of all the simples now in use. With the prescriptions of the most approved authors, as well as of the London and Edinburgh dispensatories ... To which is prefix'd, the history of the ... College of Physicians, London; of the principal chymists; of the venereal diseases; of the circulation of the blood; and other ... subjects / [Robert Colborne].
Colborne, Robert.Date: 1756- Books
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A complete English dispensatory: containing the general nature and medicinal virtues of all the simples now in use. With the prescriptions of the most approved authors, as well as of the London and Edinburgh dispensatories, according to the last Alterations. To which is prefix'd, the history of the institution of the College of Physicians, London; of the Principal Chymists; of the Venereal Disease; of the Circulation of the Blood; and other important Subjects. By Robert Colborne.
Colborne, Robert, active 1753.Date: [1756]- Books
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The medical pocket-book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body, including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples : extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order.
Elliot, John, Sir, 1736-1786.Date: 1791- Digital Images
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Plumbago auriculata Blume Plumbaginaceae Plumbago, Leadwort. Distribution: South Africa. It is used traditionally to treat warts, broken bones and wounds. It is taken as a snuff for headaches and as an emetic to dispel bad dreams. A stick of the plant is placed in the thatch of huts to ward off lightning.” Iwou (1993) reports other Plumbago species are used to cause skin blistering, treat leprosy, induce blistering, and to treat piles, parasites and to induce abortions. The genus name derives from the Latin for lead, but authors differ as to whether it was used as a treatment of lead poisoning, or that when it was used for eye conditions the skin turned the colour of lead. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Mellificium chirurgiæ: Or, The marrow of chirurgery : With the anatomy of human bodies according to the most modern anatomists; illustrated with many anatomical observations. Institutions of physick, with Hippocrates's Aphorisms largely commented upon. The marrow of physick, shewing the causes, signs and cures of most diseases incident to human bodies. Choice experienced receits for the cure of severall distempers. The fourth edition, enlarged, with many additions. Illustrated in its several parts with twelve copper cuts. By James Cooke of Warwick, practitioner in physick and chirurgery. Revised, corrected and purged from many faults that escaped in the former editions, by reason of the authors great distance from the press; by Tho. Gibson, M.D. and fellow of the Colledg of Physicians, London. Licensed by the Colledg of Physicians.
Cooke, James, 1614-1694Date: MDCXCIII. [1693]- Digital Images
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Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi Lamiaceae. Baikal skullcap. Distribution: China. There are several hundred species of Scutellaria, also known as skull caps, so correct identification is important - in particular from Scutellaria lateriflora an American species known as Blue skullcap. The latter is used as an abortifacient and to expel placenta by the Cherokee and for cleaning the throat by the Iroquois (Austin, 2004). Much vaunted as a treatment for rabies with unlikely statistics (1,400 cases cured by one doctor alone). Also as ‘antispasmodic, nervine, [for] chorea, convulsions, tetanus, tremors, delirium tremens, [and as a] diaphoretic and diuretic'. Toxicity symptoms include mental confusion, stupor, headache, vertigo, photophobia, dilated pupils, difficulty in micturition, bradycardia, tremulousness and languor, followed by wakefulness and restlessness (Milspaugh, 1974). Hutchens (1991) reported that it reduces sexual desire and was used for almost every nervous illness. Scutellaria baicalensis contains baicalin, baicalein and wogonin (European Medicines Agency, September 2010). It is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for treating inflammation, cancer, bacterial and viral infections of the lungs and gut and is one of the '50 Chinese herbs' in the lists of some authors. Scutellaria lateriflora (combined with Verbena officinalis, Passiflora incarnata and the seed of Avena sativa (oats) is licensed for use in Britain as a herbal medicine for temporary relief of mild symptoms of stress such as mild anxiety and to aid sleep, based upon traditional use only. Scutellaria baicalensis is not licensed for use in the UK (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Agrimonia eupatoria L. Agrimony, Eupatorium, Maudlein. Perennial herb. The species name comes from king Mithridates Eupator VI of Pontus (132-63 BC) who took regular doses of poison to develop an immunity to them. A 'Mithridate' was a medicine against poisons. Distribution: N. and S. Africa, N. Asia, Europe. '…provokes urine and the terms [periods], dries the brain, opens stoppings, helps the green sickness [iron deficiency anaemia], and profits such as have a cold weak liver outwardly applied it takes away the hardness of the matrix [=uterus] and fills hollow ulcers with flesh' (Culpeper, 1650). Dioscorides (Beck, 2005) recommends mashed leaves in hog's grease for healing scarring ulcers, and the seed in wine for dysentery and serpent bites. Goodyear's 1655 translation of Dioscorides (Gunther 2000) has this as cannabis, which Parkinson (1640) says is in error and summarises the manifold uses from classical authors, from removing splinters to stopping menorrhagia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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A supplement to Dr. Harris's Dictionary of arts and sciences; explaining not only the terms in physics, metaphysics, ethics, theology, history, geography, antiquity, chronology, grammar, rhetoric, logic, ... navigation, architecture, painting, ... horticulture, &c. &c. &c. but also the arts and sciences themselves: together with a just account of the origin, progress, and state of things, offices, officers, and orders, ... the several sects, systems, doctrines, and opinions of divines, heresiarchs, schismatics, philosophers, mathematicians, Physicians, critics, antiquaries, &c. Also an account of all sacred books and writings; history of general and particular councils; all solemnities, rites, ceremonies, fasts, feasts, statutes, laws, plays, sports, games, habits, and utensils: in all which, ... this book is of itself entirely compleat, and more copious and extensive than any work of this kind, not excepting Mr. Chamber's Cyclopædia, of which it is a very great improvement, containing upwards of eleven hundred articles which that author has omitted; besides great additions and improvements in almost every article; and will, with Dr. Harris's two volumes, make the most useful set of books, and compleat body of arts and sciences yet extant: being carefully compiled from the best and most approved authors in several languages; enriched with many curious manuscripts, and illustrated with copper-plates. N.B. Those subjects in which Dr. Harris is any way deficient are here perfected; no trifling and insignificent words inserted, but only such as may convey some useful and entertaining knowledge to the reader; for whose further benefit and satisfaction, all the authors made use of in this work are quoted. By a Society of Gentlemen.
Society of Arts (Great Britain). Society of GentlemenDate: M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]- Books
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An answer to A letter addressed to a Republican member of the House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts : on the subject of a petition for a new incorporation, to be entitled the College of Physicians.
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Paris quadrifolia L. Trilliaceae Herb Paris Distribution: Europe and temperate Asia. This dramatic plant was known as Herb Paris or one-berry. Because of the shape of the four leaves, resembling a Burgundian cross or a true love-knot, it was also known as Herb True Love. Prosaically, the name ‘Paris’ stems from the Latin ‘pars’ meaning ‘parts’ referring to the four equal leaves, and not to the French capital or the lover of Helen of Troy. Sixteenth century herbalists such as Fuchs, who calls it Aconitum pardalianches which means leopard’s bane, and Lobel who calls it Solanum tetraphyllum, attributed the poisonous properties of Aconitum to it. The latter, called monkshood and wolfsbane, are well known as poisonous garden plants. Gerard (1633), however, reports that Lobel fed it to animals and it did them no harm, and caused the recovery of a dog poisoned deliberately with arsenic and mercury, while another dog, which did not receive Herb Paris, died. It was recommended thereafter as an antidote to poisons. Coles (1657) wrote 'Herb Paris is exceedingly cold, wherupon it is proved to represse the rage and force of any Poyson, Humour , or Inflammation.' Because of its 'cold' property it was good for swellings of 'the Privy parts' (where presumably hot passions were thought to lie), to heal ulcers, cure poisoning, plague, procure sleep (the berries) and cure colic. Through the concept of the Doctrine of Signatures, the black berry represented an eye, so oil distilled from it was known as Anima oculorum, the soul of the eye, and 'effectual for all the disease of the eye'. Linnaeus (1782) listed it as treating 'Convulsions, Mania, Bubones, Pleurisy, Opththalmia', but modern authors report the berry to be toxic. That one poison acted as an antidote to another was a common, if incorrect, belief in the days of herbal medicine. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Fiction & physicians : medicine through the eyes of writers / Stephen McWilliams.
McWilliams, Stephen, 1974-Date: [2012]- Books
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Mellificium chirurgiæ: Or, The marrow of chirurgery : With the anatomy of human bodies according to the most modern anatomists; illustrated with many anatomical observations. Institutions of physick, with Hippocrates's Aphorisms largely commented upon. The marrow of physick, shewing the causes, signs and cures of most diseases incident to human bodies. Choice experienced receipts for the cure of several distempers. The fourth edition, enlarged, with many additions. Illustrated in its several parts with twelve copper cuts. By James Cooke of Warwick, practitioner in physick and chirurgery. Revised, corrected and purged from many faults that escaped in the former editions, by reason of the author's great distance from the press; by Tho. Gibson, M.D. and fellow of the College of Physicians, London. Licensed by the College of Physicians.
Cooke, James, 1614-1694Date: 1760 [i.e. 1700]- Digital Images
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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.
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Aṭibbāʼ Udabāʼ al-djuz' al-awwal / d. ʻAbd al-Jabbār Dayyah.
Dayyah, ʻAbd al-Jabbār.Date: 2001- Books
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Observations on fevers, especially those of the continued type, and on the scarlet fever attended with ulcerated sore-throat, as it appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne in the year 1778 : together with a comparative view of that epidemic with the scarlet fever as described by authors, and the angina maligna / by John Clark, M.D. one of the physicians to the Newcastle Dispensary.
Clark, John, 1744-1805.Date: 1780- Books
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A treatise of the great antidote of Van Helmont, Paracelsus and Crollius; by them called the elixir proprietatis : known by all physicians to be the greatest cordial and onely medicine in the world for long and sound life, restoring nature even at the point of death, and effectually taking away the seeds of all diseases. And an examination of authors concerning its true preparation: as also, a ready way to volatise salt of tartar, by which this elixir is truly prepared. Written by J.H., a lover of truth, and made publick for the good of all people.
J. H., lover of truth.Date: 1668- Books
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The medical pocket-book : for those who are, and for all who wish, to be, physicians ; containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body : including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues, and doses, of medicinal compositions, and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by John Elliot, M.D.
Elliot, John, 1747-1787.Date: MDCCLXXXIV [1784]- Books
The physician as man of letters, science, and action / [Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro].
Monro, Thomas Kirkpatrick, 1865-Date: 1951- Books
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A physician's poems : patriotic, pastoral, pungent / by Robert Bell.
Bell, Robert, 1845-1926.Date: 1893- Books
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A practical treatise of the plague and all pestilential infections that have happen'd in this island for the last century. Laying down the rules and methods then used by the most learned physicians ... as well as what are now proper to be used, in order to prevent the spreading of that contagion. With a prefatory epistle address'd to Dr. Mead, on account of his Short discourse concerning pestilential contagion / By Joseph Browne.
Browne, Joseph, active 1700-1721.Date: 1720- Books
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A treatise of diseases of the head, brain & nerves. With directions for their cure, and how many deplorable and sudden indispositions attending them, as apoplexies, epilepsies, palsies, &c. may be prevented, and consequently lives saved by the medicines herein prescrib'd. To which is subjoin'd a discourse of the nature, cause and cure of melancholy and vapours. By a physician.
Physician.Date: 1711- Books
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A manual of chemical analysis as applied to the examination of medicinal chemicals : a guide for the determination of their identity and quality, and for the detection of impurities and adulterations : for the use of pharmacists, physicians, druggists, manufacturing chemists, and pharmaceutical and medical students / by Frederick Hoffmann and Frederick B. Power.
Hoffmann, Fr. (Friedrich), 1832-1904Date: 1883- Books
The physician as entrepreneur : examining medical business patterns through the career of S. Andral Kilmer M.D. (1840-1924) / Sheldon Lee Gosline.
Gosline, Sheldon Lee.Date: [2013]