Medicinal Collection (page 18)

Man - washing in a sacred (for Tuvinian people) salt-water lake. South Tuva, near Erzin settlement, Russia

London Temperance Hospital, Hampstead Road, Euston
Londons Temperance Hospital, first opened in 1873, moved in 1885 to this site on Hampstead Road. It aimed to treat patients without the use of medicinal alcohol at a time when stimulants such as

Man in Turkish dress and wearing a turban harvesting opium
Title page including illustration of a man in Turkish dress and wearing a turban harvesting opium. From: Opiologia ad mentem academiae naturae curiosorum | Georgii Wolffgangi Wedelii, Med

Pharmacopoeia Augustana reformata. Date: 1672

Surgery in a Russian Hospital
Six surgeons about to get to work in an early 20th century Russian Hospital. Date: Early 20th century

A Gynaecological Operation in St Petersburg
Early 20th century Gynaecological surgery taking place in front of a vast audience of Surgeons, would-be surgeons and nurses in the Obstetric Institute in St Petersburg, Russia. Date: 1905

Medicinal leech
Two medicinal leeches(Hirodu medicinalis)in their natural habitat, and a diagram showing leeches in various stages of development

Street Dealers in Leeches - Thessaloniki, Greece Date: circa 1916

Ribes sativum, common currant
Plate 30 from Botanicum Medicinale (1759) by Timothy Sheldrake. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Hamamelis virginiana, witch hazel
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Aloe Afr: Caulescens Fol Glaucis
Aloe Afr: Caulescens fol glaucis caulen amplectentibus dorso spinoso. Page 329 from Flora Exotica (1720) by Johann Gottfried Simula

Aloe Semper Virens ov Vera
Page 306 from Flora Exotica (1720) by Johann Gottfried Simula

Erythroxylon coca, coca
Plate 40 from Medicinal Plants by Robert Bentley & Henry Trimen, Vol 1 1880. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Helleborus viridis, green hellebore
Hellebores contain a powerful cardiac poison & narcotic. Used medicinally for a variety of conditions, it needed to be administered with care to avoid being fatal to the patient

Brachiopods mounted with Chinese medicinal recipe
Fossil brachiopods (Sinospirifer chaoi Grabau) from the Upper Devonian, probably South China; purchased from a Chinese drug store in Singapore, prsed Prof. C.H.R. Koenigswald 1949

Mancragora officinarum, mandrake
Copy of De Materia Medica by the Greek physician Dioscorides. Used as standard medical work up to Middle Ages. Copy made in 1460 and owned by Sir Joseph Banks

Urtica dioica, stinging nettle
A herb which has various medicinal benefits and produces tiny hairs that sting when in contact with skin due to the presence of histamine and formic acid

Pharmacopoea cabinet
Frontispiece from Materia Medica, Liber 1, De Plantis by Carl Linnaeus, 1749

Polypodium barometz
The Tartarian lamb or vegetable lamb of Tartary. Dating from 1698 and formerly in the collections of Sir Hans Sloane

Aloe africana, spiny aloe
Illustration from Flora Exotica (1720) by Johann Godfried Simula. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Bryonia alba, white briony
Plate 15 from Botanicum Medicinale (1759) by Timothy Sheldrake. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Cinchona officianalis illustration, quinine
From the Plate Collection of the Natural History Museum, London

Aloe succotrina, fynbos aloe & Aloe vera, true aloe
Sketch 249 from the Ehret Collection of Sketches (unbound) by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Rubus sylvestris
Illustration is a copy from De Materia Medica made by the Greek physician Dioscorides. The copy was made in 1460 and was owned by Sir Joseph Banks

Pharmacopoea drawer
A pharmacopea drawer dating back to before 1753 from the Sir Hans Sloane collection. A drawer containing the different ingredients for the preparation or mixing of medicines

De Materia Medica. Sultan Ahmet III gives some medicinal plants to one of his disciples. Islamic art. Gouache; Miniature

Epidendrum Vanilla L. From: Afbeeldingen der artseny-gewassen met derzelver nederduitsche en latynache beschryvingen. Date: 1796

Nicotiana tabacum L.. From: Afbeeldingen der artseny-gewassen met derzelver nederduitsche en latynache beschryvingen. Date: 1796

Monarda fistulosa L.. From: Afbeeldingen der artseny-gewassen met derzelver nederduitsche en latynache beschryvingen. Date: 1796

Monarda didyma L.. From: Afbeeldingen der artseny-gewassen met derzelver nederduitsche en latynache beschryvingen. Date: 1796

Lonicera periclymenum L
Honeysuckle. From: Afbeeldingen der artseny-gewassen met derzelver nederduitsche en latynache beschryvingen. Date: 1796

Costus arabicus L.. From: Afbeeldingen der artseny-gewassen met derzelver nederduitsche en latynache beschryvingen. Date: 1796

HENBANE
Henbane (Hyoscyamus Niger), is wild, poisonous plant, often used for medicinal purposes. Date: 1930s

Panoramic view of Afyon, Turkey. Afyon - know known as Afyon Karahisar - capital of Afyon Province in Western Turkey. Growing area for Turkish poppies, used mostly for medicinal Opium

Plants / Erythroxylon Coca
Medicinal plant whose leaves are the source of cocaine, chewed cheerfully by Bolivian natives but frowned on by those who know better. Date: 1873

Afyon, Turkey
Afyon - know known as Afyon Karahisar - capital of Afyon Province in Western Turkey. Growing area for Turkish poppies, used mostly for medicinal Opium

Moose (Elk) / Olaus / Caught
A moose is trapped for the medicinal properties of its right foot

Switzerland Leuterbad
(or Bad Leut) - Interior of the medicinal baths at this noted spa

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

Medicinal Herbs Goddess
MA-KOU, a Chinese divinity who studied magical practices, and is associated with medicinal herbs

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

Cinchona in Peru
European travellers in Peru are taught the medicinal effects of QUININE; French missionaries had learnt this in 1630, but the curative element was not identified

Plants / Herbs / General
The Chinese deity SUN SZE-MIAO, Lord of Medicinal Plants

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