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On #NoSmokingDay a 19th century warning on tobacco’s harmful effects from Scottish surgeon-anatomist & @rcsed Fellow John Lizars, 'Practical Observations on the Use and Abuse of Tobacco' (1857)

Plates from Andrew Fyfe's 'Anatomy of the Human Body' published in1814. Fyfe was an exceptional Edinburgh anatomist & illustrator, although was described by Sir Astley Cooper as “a horrid lecturer”.

Manifestations of secondary syphilis in ‘Constitutional Syphilis’ (1872) by surgeon & paediatrician James George Beaney FRCSEd. Intended to serve as “pictorial illustrations of the ravages syphilis makes on the skin” #histmed (1/4)

@WhoresofYore We have a few of Dr Warner’s adverts in the archive that you might like – marketed for “high bust health” and available in white, fast black and the very enticing “drab”

From Edinburgh surgeon-artist Charles Bell's 'Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery', published in 1821. Bell intended this work to arm the surgeon with professional advantage so ‘that he may not go groping his way"

Advert for Sayre's Apparatus, 1882. Patient would be suspended by the head and axillae, and wrapped in a plaster-of-Paris jacket. First used by American orthopaedic surgeon Lewis Sayre in 1874 in the treatment of Pott's disease #histmed

Early 20thc facsimiles of 'Fasciculus Medicinae', a collection of medical texts first printed in 1491 with some of the earliest known anatomical woodcuts, including these depictions of pregnancy #InternationalDayoftheMidwife #IDM2020

Joining in with #FridayFloraandFauna so here's a lovely illustration of cardamom, known as ‘chief of all seeds’ by 17thc herbalists due to wide ranging medicinal properties. Was also used in folk medicine as a fertility treatment #botany

A 17thc apothecary shop. It's well known we were once the Barber Surgeons but #DYK we were also the Incorporation of Surgeon Apothecaries. Find out more about this - sometimes stormy - relationship in our #earlymodern digitised manuscript collections https://t.co/nRFFrujz7z?

Spotted some crocuses in the wild so so here’s some lovely illustrations! Saffron (from crocus sativus) historically used to treat ailments such as gout & asthma, and believed to be an aphrodisiac. This 19thc medical #botany text also claims it brings “ecstatic drunkenness”