Ailment Collection

Cancer Research
Cancer research at Gratwick Laboratory, Buffalo, New York, which achieved striking results with rats in 1909. Date: 1909

POPE CLEMENS XIV Ganganelli) abolishes the Jesuit order, dies of a mysterious ailment, leading to accusations that the Jesuits poisoned him Date: reigned 1762 - 1774

CRUIKSHANK: CHOLIC
A gang of impish demons torment the Cholic Date: 1819

COMPRESSED AIR BLOWING
The introduction of compressed air for blowing glass put an end to the occupational ailment of glassblowers whose lungs were destroyed by their work Date: 1883

Royal Victoria Hospital Farm Colony, Polton, Scotland
Patients plough the land and plant seed potatoes at the Farm Colony (founded in 1910) at The Royal Victoria Hospital, founded in 1894

Christmas card in the shape of medicines -- Seidlitz Powders and Liver Pills (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of medicines
Greetings card in the shape of a bottle of medicine (labelled black draught) and a box of little blue pills. circa 1890s

Advertisement for Beechams Powders - Act like magic! Suitable for the treatment of chills, colds and flu. Date: 1930

Elegant woman in visiting dress 1922
Young woman wearing gold pattered visiting dress, leaning against a black french rococo sideboard. Date: 1922

Felix Alfred Vulpian
EDME FELIX ALFRED VULPIAN French physician who achieved the distinction of having a muscular ailment named for him. Date: 1826 - 1887

Lazare Hoche
LAZARE HOCHE French military commander in the Revolutionary War, suppressed the Vendee rising, died of a chest ailment. Date: 1768 - 1797

Old Mrs Snooksons Husband view on his drinking ailment
" Well, hows your Husband, Mrs Snookson?" " O! Es very bad, poor ear Es such a martyr to Delerium Tremins." !!

Baby with German Measles - WWI connection
Screaming baby with German Measles - both a reference to this childhood ailment and a reaction to the state of European relations during World War One! Date: circa 1915

Christmas card in the shape of medicines
Christmas card in the shape of a bottle of medicine and boxes of pills for various ailments. circa 1890s

Playing hospital
A girl plays Hospital with her dolls, all of whom are suffering from one ailment or another. 1922

Plants / Cannabis Sativa
MARIJUANA, INDIAN HEMP also known by several other names A medicinal plant which has been prescribed for almost every ailment

Tuberculosis 1891
Koch demonstrates his treatment of the disease using goats blood Date: 1891

Saint-Medard, Cure
SAINT-MEDARD, Paris Marguerite Francoise du Chene is one of the convulsionnaires who is cured of her ailment, haemorrhage and fever, at the tomb of M. de Paris

Drugs / Marijuana
CANNABIS SATIVA also known by several other names A medicinal plant which has been prescribed for almost every ailment

Spanish Flu
The Spanish flu epidemic overtakes the angel of peace Date: 1918

Magnetism cure
a magnetiseur cures his patient of a nervous ailment

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