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Cleanliness is next to Godliness. Gentlemen! Some topical #WednesdayWisdom from the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, 1890.

It's #ScottishArchivesDay tomorrow #FYI

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”

Because nothing says #ValentinesDay quite like a heart dissection! To get you in the mood here's some beautiful illustrations by 19th century Edinburgh surgeon-anatomist & artist Charles Bell (1801)

An early 17th century tooth-drawer performing an extraction, with a spectator clutching the patient’s wrist. Dental instruments hang on the wall of this dark cellar, with the assistant holding today's #ArchiveAdventCalendar #candles @ARAScot #ExploreYourArchive

A few plants to avoid on #WorldVeganDay! Vegetable poisons illustrated in a 19thc domestic medicine guide, including Poisonous Lettuce, Monk's Hood, Fool's Parsley & the hallucinogenic Fly Mushroom, Thorn Apple & Deadly Nightshade. #sciart #botany

It's #InternationalCoffeeDay so have an extra strong one this morning! This illustration of the Arabian Coffee Tree is from an early 19th century medical text, and is noted by the author as "one of the best vehicles for the administration of laudanum"

Not so much a ‘before & after’ as an 'in progress’ of our new #histmed archive accession. #explorearchives #boxes

Edinburgh surgeon Andrew Fyfe was born #OTD 1752. Fyfe was an exceptional anatomist & illustrator, although was described by Sir Astley Cooper as “a horrid lecturer” (Illustration from 'Anatomy of the Human Body', 1814)

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