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Mandragora

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Solanaceae

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  • Images from the collections
  • Works from the collections
  • Related topics

Images from the collections

Images about Mandragora

21 images from works
  • Ayer's Sarsaparilla gives health and sunny hours / Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.
  • Iris, Aesculapius and Flora routing death. Mezzotint by J.J. Haid, 1737, after J.W. Baumgartner.
  • Forestine blood bitters : make the weak strong.
  • A cudweed plant (Gnaphalium species), mandrake plant (Mandragora officinarum) and breadfruit tree (Artocarpus atilis). Coloured engraving, c. 1827.
  • Mandrake roots in the form of human figures, both naked and clothed; the mandrake plant itself (Mandragora officinarum L.); and a root of ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.). Engraving.
  • Three people plucking mandrake. Gouache by Robert Bateman, 1870.
  • Panacea, daughter of Æsculapius, examining a urine flask and surrounded by medical paraphernalia. Engraving by P. Galle (?).
  • Three mother-goddesses or fates (above); three mandrake charms (below). Engraving.
  • Ayer's Sarsaparilla gives health and sunny hours / Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.
  • Ayer's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood, stimulates the vital functions, restores and preserves health, and infuses new life and vigor throughout the whole system / Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.

Works from the collections

55 works

    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0007115: Manuscript illustration of a mandrake being uprooted by a dog

    | Date: 30 July 1940 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/61/3
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0007114: Page from Medicina Antiqua depicting a mandrake being attacked

    | Date: 30 July 1940 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/61/2
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Ayer's Sarsaparilla gives health and sunny hours / Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co.

    Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co. | Date: [between 1880 and 1889?]
    • Books

    The mythology of the mandragora / by D.M. Davies.

    Davies, D. M. (David Margerison) | Date: 1948
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Forestine blood bitters : make the weak strong.

    | Date: [approximately 1891]

Related topics

Materia Medica
Botany
Plants, Medicinal
Solanaceae
Medicine, Traditional
Formulas, recipes, etc.
Plant Roots
Hallucinogenic plants

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