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Solanum Dulcamara (Bittersweet - Woody nightshade)
Rowan McOnegal- Books
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Solanum dulcamara as a medicinal plant / by John Harley.
Harley, John, 1833-1921.Date: [1872?]- Digital Images
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Potato starch grains (Solanum tuberosum)
Lauren Holden- Digital Images
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Solanum atropurpureum Schrank Solanaceae. Purple Devil. Purple-spined Nightshade. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: Brazil. This ferociously spined plant contains tropane alkaloids, atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine. All are anticholinergic and block the acetylcholine mediated actions of the parasympathetic nervous system. While the alkaloids are used in medicine and as an antidote to anticholinergic nerve gas poisons, the plant itself is not used in medicine. Its sharp spines can be irritant. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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Two spiny plants (Solanum sisymbrifolium): flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27245i- Pictures
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Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum): leaves and fruits. Pen drawing, partially coloured.
Reference: 22367i- Pictures
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Woody nightshade or bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara): flowering and fruiting stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 22084i- Pictures
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Two aubergine fruits (Solanum melongena) and an umbelliferous plant stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 23404i- Books
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Observations on the internal use of the Solanum or nightshade / By Thomas Gataker.
Gataker, Thomas, -1769.Date: 1757- Pictures
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A plant (Solanum sp.): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16861i- Digital Images
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Solanum laciniatum Aiton Solanaceae. Kangaroo Apple. Evergreen shrub. Distribution: New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. It contains steroidal saponins that can be converted into steroids, including progesterone, oestrogens, cortisone, prednisolone etc. In 1943, Professor Russell Marker discovered a method of obtaining an unsaturated steroidal saponine, diosogenin, from Mexican yam (Dioscorea mexicana), which can easily and cheaply be converted into steroids, such as prednisone and progesterone, reducing the price of steroid production to a fraction (0.5%) of its former cost. For 20 years drug companies showed little interest, and it was only as a result of Professor Marker forming his own company, and the concerted efforts of several gynaecologists, physiologists and birth-control advocates, that the contraceptive pill was ‘born’ in 1960. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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A spiny Solanum plant: flowering stem. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
Robert, Nicolas, 1614-1685.Date: [c. 1660]Reference: 24937i- Pictures
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Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16859i- Pictures
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A plant (Solanum igneum L.): flowering stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17486i- Pictures
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Aubergine or egg plant (Solanum melongena): fruits of different varieties. Chromolithograph, c. 1870, after H. Briscoe.
Briscoe, H.Date: [1870]Reference: 26150i- Pictures
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A plant (Solanum sp.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate sectioned fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1774.
Date: [1774]Reference: 16856i- Pictures
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A plant (Solanum aethiopicum L.): flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1770.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1770]Reference: 17485i- Books
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The constituents of Solanum angustifolium : isaolation of a new gluco-alkaloid, solangustine / by Frank Tutin and Hubert William Bentley Clewer.
Tutin, Frank.Date: 1914.]- Pictures
Three figures of vegetables: peas in a pod; two seed potatoes; two new potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) grown from seed. Coloured etching, c. 1824.
Date: [1812-48]Reference: 26425i- Pictures
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Four poisonous plants: monk's hood (Aconitum napellus), deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) and thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone, 1855.
Date: [1855]Reference: 28005i- Books
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Observations on the internal use of the solanum or nightshade / By Thomas Gataker.
Gataker, Thomas, -1769.Date: 1757- Books
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An essay on the use of the atropa belladonna, or solanum lethale, and the solanum hortense : with practical observations on their effects in the cure of scirrhus, cancer, stricture, and various other complaints / by Powell Charles Blackett.
Blackett, Powell Charles.Date: 1826- Books
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Observations sur les vertus des differentes especes de solanum, qui croissent en Angleterre, avec des remarques sur l'usage de la salsepareille, du mercure et de ses preṕarations / Par M. Bromfeild pere ... Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois, par M. Bromfeild le fils.
Bromfield, William, 1712-1792.Date: 1761- Books
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Observations on the internal uses of the solanum or nightshade. By Thomas Gataker, Surgeon to Westminster Hospital.
Gataker, Thomas, -1769.Date: [1757]- Books
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Observations on the internal use of the solanum of nightshade. By Thomas Gataker, surgeon to Westminster Hospital.
Gataker, Thomas, -1769.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]