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Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 10 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Initialled A J [Alexander Johnston].

'E. I. plate 8, restored to reason. In this case a blister applied to the nape of the…

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed By A J [Alexander Johnston].

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed by A J [Alexander Johnston].

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed By A J [Alexander Johnston].

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed C Gow.

This bottle contains white powder.

The most prominent use for camphorated chalk was as a tooth powder. Chalk was often used in early dentifrices and camphor would have been added for its antiseptic properties. Tooth powders could be made by…

A small cylindrical medicine vial with a handwritten label that reads ‘Calomel [gtt.?]’, containing a small amount of off-white powder.

Calomel, or mercuric chloride, is a rare naturally occurring mineral introduced as medicine in the year…

A cylindrical bottle with a wooden stopper containing Calcarea Carbonica, prepared by a homeopathic chemist Joseph James, Promenade Place, Cheltenham, who had worked for Arthur Guinness M.D. and undertook the company and changed the name to Joseph…

The two plaster busts of Harvey, found in the Great Hall and the Sibbald Library, both appear to depict Harvey in his academic robes, worn over a coat or waistcoat. The pieces are identical as both are copies or casts taken of Peter Scheemakers…