Physic Collection

Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims on the road
* NOTE - FULL FILE IS A LONG PANORAMA - Preview split into 3 sections for ease of viewing * Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims on the road reproduction of a painting by Stephen Reid (1873-1948) (from left)

Chaucer, Doctor O Physic
The Doctor of Physic holds up a flask to the light

Canton. Physic Street
Pierre Joseph Rossier. Views in China issued by Negretti and Zambra in 1859 and 1861. First Series and second series. These important images were the first commercial views of China to be sold in

Botanic Gardens Chelsea
The Chelsea Physic Garden (as it is now known) was established as the Apothecaries Garden in London, England, in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries to grow plants to be used as medicines

Coralbush, Jatropha multifida. Handcoloured lithograph by D. Blair after an illustration by Lena Lowis from her Familiar Indian Flowers with Coloured Plates, L. Reeve, London, 1878

Culvers root or blackroot, Veronicastrum virginicum (Veronica virginica). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

HOSPITAL CERTIFICATE
Certifying that a Mr Thomas ?---drew hath attended the practice of physic at the hospital for 18 months. Signed by 3 doctors. Surmounted by the hospitals emblem. Date: 25 November 1843

Voltaic pile by alessandro Volta. Colored engraving
Voltaic pile invented by the italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827). Colored engraving

Biting Arsmart, Polygonum hydropiper. Copperplate illustration from Edward Baylis, A new and compleat body of practical botanic physic from the medicinal plants of the vegetable kingdom, Vol

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (1745-1827). Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Statue. University of Pavia. Italy

Headstone of Giuseppe Belli (1791-1860). Italian physicist and mathematician. Carrara marble. Relief depicting a portrait of Belli inside a medallion with some instruments relating to physics

Jacob Bobart
JACOB BOBART German-born botanist at the Oxford Physic Garden Date: 1599 - 1680

Chelsea Physic Gardens
A corner of the water garden at Chelsea Physic Gardens, London, England. Date: 1960s

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Physic
Physic. (The Earl of Allswallough) Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled Shadow and Substance, 1860

Francis Glisson
FRANCIS GLISSON Medical from Dorset, professor of Physic at Cambridge, later in London

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