Bladder Collection

The carnival in the port of Spain, Trinidad, 1888. People cavort in fancy dress through the street, some playing banjos, others brandishing what looks like bladders on sticks

Macrocystis pyrifera, giant kelp
Giant kelp, also known as kelp forest, seaweed and sea grass. Specimen annotated as Macrocystis pirifera from South Africa, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Costume / Men / Jester 14C
A medieval court jester in two-tone yellow and black, with bells and bladder

Fouberts surgical operation to remove a bladder stone: Mr Fouberts scalpel 1, flexible canula 2 and mark on the perineum for the external incision

Death, playing the bagpipes, lifts up the Fool's green robes to expose him.. Handcolored engraving by Chretien de Mechel from Hans Holbein's The Triumph of Death

Medieval men inflating pig bladders, playing
Medieval men inflating pig bladders (for bagpipes?), playing mandolins and pipes. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse), Librairie Hachette

Poison gooseberry, Withania somnifera, and bladder cherry, Physalis alkekengi. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Senna, Senna alexandrina, and bladder senna, Colutea arborescens. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Bladder campion, Silene vulgaris, Silene inflata, Silene renfle. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A

Bladder cherry or Chinese lantern, Physalis alkekengi, Alkekenge. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lagesse after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Knight, fool and girl, 16th century Germany
Knight (reiter) with wheel-lock pistol and harem pants A, jester with bladder and marotte (bauble), B, and girl in long petticoat and apron from Strasbourg C

Siphonophorae hydrozoa: Epibulia ritteriana 1, 2, and Salacella uvaria 3-6. Chromolithograph by Adolf Glitsch from an illustration by Ernst Haeckel from Art Forms in Nature, Kunstformen der Natur

Siphonophora jellyfish colony. Physophora hydrostatica (Discolabe quadrigata), colony, gas bladder, swimming bell, polyp, etc

Siphonophorae hydrozoa: Porpema prunella and Porpita species, young and adult colonies, gas bladder, etc. Chromolithograph by Adolf Glitsch from an illustration by Ernst Haeckel from Art Forms in

Moon snail and nautilus
Bladder moon snail, Neverita didyma 1, crusty nautilus, Nonion umbilicatulum 2, and chambered nautilus, Nautilus pompilius 3, 4. Natice, Nautile

Ambush bug and Chinese lantern plant
Ambush bug, Macrocephalus cimicoides 1, 2, and bladder cherry or Chinese lantern plant, Physalis alkekengi 3. Phymates, Physalide

Surgical instruments to remove foreign bodies from the esophagus 1-3, encysted stone in the bladder 4 and a hernia in the bowel 5

Surgical chairs and instruments for a bladder
Surgical chairs with patients held in place for a bladder stone operation through the groin, Plate 12. Surgical instruments including dilators 1-3, curette 6 and hook curette 7, Plate 11

Chinese lantern, Physalis alkekengi
L Alkekenge de la Chine. Chinese lantern, Physalis alkekengi. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses

Bladder heath, Erica physodes (Mr. Lamberts hybrid heath, Erica lambertiana). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev

Bladder hibiscus, Hibiscus trionum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1792

Bladder wrack, Fucus vesiculosus. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

PLANTS / SILENE CUCUBALUS
BLADDER CAMPION Date: early 20th century

Anatomy of human internal organs.. Anatomy of human internal organs from the front showing heart, stomach, intestines, kidneys and bladder

Codex Granatensis: Tacuinum Sanitatis. 1400. Folio 85r. Illustration about dates, Fruits which strengthen the bladder. Codex C-67 of Granada with fragment of medieval handbook on health

Phasianus colchicus elegans, common pheasant
Plate 58 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Habitat of Aplecta Hypnorum (Moss Bladder Snail), Mahee Island - a view of two boys, one fishing in a net, for snails. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Mahee Island). Date: circa early 1900s

Illustration, Orthosiidae -- Hadenidae -- Luperina Virens, Miselia Oxyacanthae, Dichonia Aprilina, Polia Chi, Dianthoecia Albimacula, Dianthoecia Compta, Mamestra Dysodea, Mamestra Dentina

Hibiscus africanus, bladder katmia

Casuarius bennetti, dwarf cassowary
Watercolour by John Keulemans, (c. 1900) commissioned by Lord Rothschild and drawn from a live specimen at his menagerie at Tring, Hertfordshire

Cystopteris diaphana, diaphanous bladder fern
An SEM showing a close-up of the spiny-lacunar surface of the diaphanous bladder fern (Cystopteris diaphana) spore. Photographed using Philips XL30 SEM

Chrysolophus amherstiae, Lady Amhersts pheasant
Plate 64 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Pinus sylvestris, scots pine
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing a pollen grain from a scots pine. Note the air bladders that help it to float through the air (x 1500 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Indian Water Carrier and his Bullock, India
Indian Water Carrier (Bhisti) and his Bullock, India Date: circa 1909

Kidney & Bladder 18th C
sections of the kidneys and the bladder. Date: Circa 1760

Jesters (Smith)
In the background is a FOOL, a kind of domestic idiot : the JESTER is a more sophisticated creature, expected to be witty rather than the butt of coarse amusement. Date: 1272

Plants / Hibiscus Trionum
BLADDER HIBISCUS

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