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Oil on panel, 73.6 x 60.9 cm

William Harvey (1578–1657) was born in Folkestone, Kent. From the Grammar School in Canterbury he was admitted as a pensioner to Caius College, Cambridge in 1593.

He travelled in France, Germany and Italy. At…

Oil on canvas, 116.8 x 91.4 cm

Born in Peterhead, William Seller (1798–1869) was the son of a merchant who died at an early age. His mother, with her three children, came to Edinburgh where Seller was educated at the High School.

At…

Oil on canvas, 111.7 x 88.9 cm

William Ziegler, the son of Alexander Ziegler, graduated with an MD from Edinburgh in 1849, and a FRCPEd in 1861. He assisted his father in his general and obstetric practice.

He was a physician to the Royal…

Powdered Peruvian Bark (Cinchona), labelled by Sir Stuart Threipland in his medicine chest as ‘Pul C: Peruvia’.

When mixed with milk, water or wine, powdered Peruvian bark created a drink which relieved pain and fevers. This will have been…

A cylindrical bottle with a wooden stopper containing Phosphorus, prepared by a homeopathic chemist Joseph James, Promenade Place, Cheltenham, was apprenticed to a homeopathic chemist called Edwin Wheeler and within a few years bought Mr Wheeler’s…