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Brugmansia suaveolens'Pink Beauty'
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Podophyllum peltatum (May apple or American mandrake)
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Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia.[he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’]. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia [he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and reverses the constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Monkshood (Aconitum napellus): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured etching.
Reference: 25334i- Books
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The complete cow-doctor, or, farmer's companion. Treating of the most common disorders of black-cattle - their causes, symptons and cures. By Joshua Rowlin, of Hollins, Parish of Lamplugh, Cumberland. To which is prefixed, the natural history of that animal, from the most eminent Natural Historians-a Disquisition on Rumination and Digestion-on the Circulation of the Animal Fluids; from Dr. Munro, Fourcroy, and others. There is also a particular description given of an elastic tube, invented by Dr. Munro, with the method of using it for the immediate relief of swellings occasioned by eating Wet Clover-by Fogsickness, or Poisons. To the whole is added, an appendix, Containing many remarks and observations, on the Murrain, Gargle, or Pestilential Fever, made by eminent Physicians, at different times, when that Disorder raged in England, &c.
Rowlin, Joshua.Date: 1794- Books
Dementia beyond drugs : changing the culture of care / by G. Allen Power ; forewords by Kate Swaffer, William H. Thomas.
Power, G. AllenDate: [2017]- Ephemera
First aid ephemera. Box 1.
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Papaver somniferum seed
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Solomon's seal (Polygonatum odoratum (Mill.) Druce): entire flowering plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16590i- Videos
Pain, pus and poison.
Date: 2013- Archives and manuscripts
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Notes on autopsies, etc.
Date: 1905-1913Reference: PP/SPI/A.1Part of: Spilsbury, Sir Bernard (1877-1947), Forensic Pathologist- Audio
Elements of surprise : oxygen's poisonous life force.
Date: 2002- Archives and manuscripts
Notes on autopsies, etc.
Date: Apr 1938-Aug 1938Reference: PP/SPI/A.20Part of: Spilsbury, Sir Bernard (1877-1947), Forensic Pathologist- Books
Menace in the mouth? / J. G. Levenson, Robert Hampleman and Tony Lees.
Levenson, J. G.Date: 2000- Books
The poison line : a true story of death, deception and infected blood / Cara McGoogan.
McGoogan, CaraDate: 2023- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1936Reference: WF/M/GB/30/09Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Notes on autopsies, etc.
Date: 1941Reference: PP/SPI/A.22Part of: Spilsbury, Sir Bernard (1877-1947), Forensic Pathologist- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - General Meeting and Executive Committee
Date: 12 Feb 1965Reference: SA/CMO/C/78Part of: Association of County Medical Officers of Health and the County Medical Officers Group of the Society of Medical Officers of Health- Digital Images
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Chinese C18 woodcut: External medicine - Erysipelas
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Chinese C18 woodcut: External medicine - syphilitic sores
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Chinese C18 woodcut: External medicine - Erysipelas
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Date: 1930-1931Reference: WF/M/GB/30/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Digital Images
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C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - Snake-Coil boil
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Chinese C18 woodcut: External eye - Infected eyelids