- Kimpton-Brown Tube
Whole Blood Transfusion with Kimpton’s Tube. The principle of this method depends upon the use of paraffin wax as a coating for the vessel into which the blood is drawn, so that clotting is prevented or greatly delayed. The form of the vessel has been modified by different workers, but the essentials are the same in each. One form of the apparatus, known as the Kimpton-Brown tube, is illustrated in the accompanying diagram. It consists of a graduated glass cylinder, of about 700 cc. capacity, the lower end of which is drawn out into a cannula point at an acute angle with the body of the cylinder; the point is of a size convenient for introducing into a vein and its bore large enough to allow of a free flow of blood through it. Near the upper end is a side tube to which a rubber tube can be attached, and an opening at the top is closed by a rubber bung. An ordinary rubber double-bulb bellows is the only other apparatus that is needed. - Knives and Scissors to Grind
- Knives to Grind
- Large silver eels
- Late Empire - Ball dress and street costume
Late Empire - Ball dress and street costume - Later Louis XIV Period 1700 - 1715
Later Louis XIV Period 1700 - 1715 - Lay Costumes in the Twelfth Century
- Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt - Letters for post
- London before the Spire of St. Paul's was burned; showing the Bridge, Tower, Shipping, &c
- Louis XIII - about 1640
Louis XIII - about 1640 - Louis XIV Period - about 1670
Louis XIV Period - about 1670 - Louis XIV Period - about 1700
Louis XIV Period - about 1700 - Louis XV
Dress in the time of Louis XV - Man at Alehouse
- MAPPA BRITTANIÆ FACIE
- Marie Antoinette style - Late Louis XVI period - 1790
Marie Antoinette style - Late Louis XVI period - 1790 - Marshall Soult's State Carriage
Marshall Soult's State Carriage - Martyrdom of St. Edmund by the Danes
(From a drawing belonging to the Society of Antiquaries.) - Men's street costume Late Revolution and early Empire
Men's street costume Late Revolution and early Empire - Middle class costume during French Revolution - showing Charlotte Corday cap
Middle class costume during French Revolution - showing Charlotte Corday cap - Mile End Almshouses
Homes and schools for the boys and girls, hospitals for the adult, there remain the aged. Dotted about all over London there are about a hundred and fifty almshouses; of these about half are situated in and about East London. Not that the people of East London have been more philanthropic in their endowments than those of the west, but, before there was any city of East London, almshouses were planted here on account of the salubrity and freshness of the air and the cheapness of the ground. Some of these have been moved farther afield, their original sites being built over. The People’s Palace, for instance, is built upon the site of the Bancroft almshouses, founded in 1728 for the maintenance and education of one hundred poor. Their original house has gone, but the charity is still maintained. - Milk below, Maids
- Milton’s Cottage, Chalfont St. Giles
Chalfont St. Giles lies down in the valley of the Misbourne, across the high road which runs left and right, and past the Pheasant Inn. It is a place made famous by Milton’s residence here, when he fled London and the Great Plague. The cottage—the “pretty cot,” as he aptly calls it, taken for him by Thomas Ellwood, the Quaker—is still standing, and is the last house on the left-hand side of the long village street. The poet could only have known it to be a “pretty cot” by repute, for he was blind. - Morning costume of Dandy of the early Revolutionary period - 1791
Morning costume of Dandy of the early Revolutionary period - 1791 - Mousquetaire or Cavalier Costume 1620 - 1640
Mousquetaire or Cavalier Costume 1620- 1640 - Mr. Higginson’s Transfusion Instrument
Mr. Higginson’s Transfusion Instrument Although some of the early experiments on blood transfusion had been done in England, and although its revival [14]in the nineteenth century was initiated in England, yet it is to be noticed that most of the references to it up to 1874 are to be found in the works of Continental writers. Nevertheless, an important modification was introduced into the technique of the operation in 1857 by Higginson, who applied the principle of a rubber syringe with ball-valves for transferring the blood from the receptacle into which it was drawn, to the vein of the recipient. This apparatus is illustrated here, as it is of some interest in the history of medicine. A is a metallic cup, of 6-oz. capacity, to receive the supply of blood. B an outer casing, which will hold 5 oz. of hot water, introduced through an aperture at C. D is a passage leading into an elastic barrel, composed of vulcanized india-rubber, E, of which the capacity is 1 oz. F′ the exit for the blood into the injection-pipe G. At D and F there are ball-valves, capable of closing the upper openings when thrown up against them, but leaving the lower openings always free. The blood, or other fluid, poured into the cup A, has free power to run unobstructed through D, E, F; a small plug H is therefore provided to close the lower aperture F when necessary. The tube G is of vulcanized india-rubber, and terminates in a metal tube O for insertion into the vein. - Mrs Hemans
- New Laid Eggs
- Noble of the Tudor or Louis XI Period
Noble of the Tudor or Louis XI Period - Nobleman of the 13th Century
Nobleman of the 13th Century - Norman Crossbowmen
- O' clo
- Old Cloths
- Old London Bridge
Houses were erected in course of time along the Bridge on either side like a street, but with intervals; and along the roadway in the middle were chain posts to protect the passengers. As the Bridge was only 40 feet wide the houses must have been small. But they were built out at the back overhanging the river, and the roadway itself was not intended for carts or wheeled vehicles. Remember that everything was brought to the City on pack horse or pack ass. The table of Tolls sanctioned by King Edward I. makes no mention of cart or waggon at all. Men on horseback and loaded horses can get along with a very narrow road. Perhaps we may allow twelve feet for the road which gives for the houses on either side a depth of 14 feet each. - Old St. Paul's on Fire
- Old St. Paul's, from the East
- Ordinary Attire of Women of the Lower Classes
(From Sandford's 'Coronation Procession of James II.') - Ordinary Dress of Gentlemen in 1675
(From Loggan's 'Oxonia Illustrata.') - Ow-oo
- Part of the Roman Wall at Leicester
- Past one c'clock, an' a fine morning
- Paul Pindar's House
- Pilgrims
- Pots and Kettles to mend
- Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth - Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria - Remains of the Wall
The City was thus protected by a great wall pierced by a few gates, with bastions and towers. At the East End after the Norman Conquest rose the Great White Tower still standing. At the West End was a tower called Montfichet's Tower. - Reversion to the classic (Grecian) type
Reversion to the classic (Grecian) type - Ripe Cherries
- Robert Berewold in the pillory
- Roman London
- Royal Arms of England from Richard I. to Edward III
(From the wall arcade, south aisle of nave, Westminster Abbey.) - Sand 'O
- sat for its portrait to Matthew Paris
- Saxon Church at Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts
- Saxon Horsemen
(Harl. MS. 603.) - Shipping in the Thames, circa 1660
(From Pricke's 'South Prospect of London.') - Sign of the 'Running Horse'
Why the crowd resorted thus to tipple the horrible compound does not appear: one would rather drink the usual glucose and dilute sulphuric acid of modern times. The pictorial sign of the old house still proudly declares— “When Skelton wore the laurel crown My ale put all the alewives down.” To do that, you would think, it must needs have been both good and cheap. Certainly, if the portrait-sign of Elynor be anything like her, customers did not resort to the “Running Horse” to bask in her smiles, for she is represented as a very plain, not to say ugly, old lady with a predatory nose plentifully studded with warts. - Sir Francis Drake, in his Forty-third Year