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A plant, possibly of the Rubiaceae family: flowering and fruiting stem with separate leaf. Watercolour.
Reference: 23421i- Pictures
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A species of the plant family Rubiaceae: entire flowering plant with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16778i- Archives and manuscripts
The effects of alkaloidal derivatives from three plants of the genus strychnos and one of the order rubiaceae on pathological rigidities in man typescript of article by RRW
Date: 1937Reference: PP/RRW/D/9Part of: West, Robert George Ranyard (1900-1986)- Digital Images
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Gardenia jasminoides J.Ellis Rubiaceae. Cape jasmine - as erroneously believed to have come from South Africa. Distribution: China. Named for Dr Alexander Garden FRS (1730-1791) Scottish-born physician and naturalist who lived in Charles Town, South Carolina, and corresponded with Linnaeus and many of the botanists of his era. The fruits are used in China both as a source of a yellow dye, and for various unsubstantiated medicinal uses. Other species of Gardenia are found in tropical Africa and the roots and leaves have all manner of putative uses. Gardenia tenuifolia is used as an aphrodisiac, for rickets, diarrhoea, leprosy, gall bladder problems, toothache, liver complaints, diabetes, hypertension, malaria and abdominal complaints. It causes violent vomiting and diarrhoea. It, and other species, are used to poison arrows and to poison fish. Some native, muthi medicine, healers regard Gardenia as a ‘last chance’ medicine, given to patients when all else fails – the patient either dies or recovers (Neuwinger, 1996). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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A bedstraw plant (Galium erectum): two flowering plants. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
Bradbury, Henry, 1831-1860.Date: [c. 1867]Reference: 23672i- Books
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Bericht von den heilsamen Wirkungen der kinkina oder peruvianischen Rinde und von der Nichtigkeit der Vorurtheile welche das Publicum gegen diese Kinde noch hat, mit einem Anhange von dem innerlichen Gebrauche des Schierlings, Bilsenkrautes, und Münchskappen Extractes / Von Joh. Georg Schenckbecher.
Schenkbecher, Johann Georg.Date: 1769- Pictures
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Crosswort or bedstraw (Galium cruciata): four flowering stems. Colour nature print by H. Bradbury.
Bradbury, Henry, 1831-1860.Date: [c. 1867]Reference: 23664i- Pictures
Randia malabarica Lam.: branch with flowers and fruit, separate flower, fruit and seeds and sectioned fruit. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1685]Reference: 16052i- Pictures
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A plant (Coutarea pubescens): flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27143i- Books
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Researches on the chemical and medical properties of the root of kahinca / by Messrs. Francois, Caventou & Pelletier ; a memoir read at the Royal Academy of Sciences (Institute,) the 27th December, 1820 ; (extracted from the Journal general of medicine, May 1830) ; translated by John Baxter, M. D.
François, André, 1775-1840.Date: 1831- Books
Memorias sobre la granza, ó rubia, y su cultivo, con la descripcion de los molinos para reducirla a polvo / por Mr. Du Hamel du Monceau ... ; Traducida del francès de orden de la real junta general de comercio.
Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782.Date: 1763- Pictures
A plant (Randia dumetorum): branch with flowers and fruit, cross-section of fruit and seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1683]Reference: 15861i- Pictures
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An Hedyotis plant: flowering stem and root. Watercolour.
Reference: 22457i- Books
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Yohimbe bark : its history and identification in commerce / by J. Small & F.M.J. Adams.
Small, J., active 1922.Date: [1922]- Books
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A description of the genus Cinchona, comprehending the various species of vegetables from which the Peruvian and other Barks of a similar quality are taken. Illustrated by figures of all the species hitherto discovered. To which is prefixed Professor Vahl's dissertation on this genus, read before the society of natural history at Copenhagen. Also a description, accompanied by figures, of a new genus named Hyaenanche: or, Hyaena poison.
Lambert, Aylmer Bourke, 1761-1842.Date: M.DCC.XCVII. [1797]- Pictures
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A plant (Canthium parviflorum) related to Ceylon boxwood: branch with flowers and fruits, separate flowers, fruit and sectioned fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1685]Reference: 16054i- Pictures
A plant (Guettarda speciosa): large leaf with superimposed flowering shoot and separate tree, inflorescense, flowers and fruit sections with seeds. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1683]Reference: 15954i- Pictures
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A bedstraw plant (Galium species): flowering stems. Watercolour.
Reference: 23470i- Pictures
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Crucianella maritima L.: flowering stem with separate floral sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16780i- Archives and manuscripts
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Receipt-Book, 18th century
Date: Late 18th centuryReference: MS.4059- Pictures
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Field madder (Sherardia arvensis L.): entire flowering plant with separate flower sections. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16740i- Books
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Thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, le 26 juin 1841 / par C.-J. Lanel.
Lanel, C.J.Date: 1841- Pictures
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Garden Gardinia or Cape jasmine (Gardenia augusta (L.) Merr.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flowers and fruit. Coloured line engraving.
Date: [1686]Reference: 16263i- Pictures
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Serissa japonica (Thunb.) Thunb.: flowering stem and floral segments. Watercolour, 17--.
Reference: 18626i- Pictures
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A type of bedstraw (Galium sp.): flowering stems arising from piece of wood with separate flower. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16741i