With lotsa small Flower Remedy bottles. 40 to be precise.
The organic food shop sold their last bottle of brandy... to me! The time has come, I'm going to start experimenting with the composition of Bach Flower Remedies. (The flower extracts are preserved in brandy 40%.) School told us to start with self-treatment, so I'll have to start thinking which of my personality traits/moods need a good scrub. Oh yes, I do have an idea.
With eerie pikturs.
I love this book. It's a reprint of Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery's Atlas of Anatomy (1831-1854), who at the time worked together with Nicolas Henri Jacob, the illustrator who made the amazing hand-coloured litographs for the treatise. Some plates are a little scary, especially the ones covering surgical directions of the time - sometimes you wonder what exactly that weird object is doing in that bared skull, and the settings look pretty sadistic here and there, but their 23 years' time of hard work and careful observation did pay off.
And here's apparently the complete (huh??) online version of Gray's Anatomy (of the Human Body), my initial inspiration to get myself a book with 19th-century anatomical plates.
The Anatomy classes start in only a couple of weeks...
And here's apparently the complete (huh??) online version of Gray's Anatomy (of the Human Body), my initial inspiration to get myself a book with 19th-century anatomical plates.
The Anatomy classes start in only a couple of weeks...
I am envious of your box
ReplyDeletea fan of Bach Flowers too? :)
ReplyDeleteha ha, no, I'd not heard of them until I read your post. The box has that mysterious arcane look to it that I used to love as a child. I remember a room in my school (long since vanished) that was full of similar relics from a more civilised era (except perhaps for their penchant for etherizing and pinning butterflies).
ReplyDeleteit does have that magic look about it, doesn't it, and when you open it there's 40 mystery potions in there
ReplyDeleteand i just loved those old dusty closets in my secondary school: animals and parts of animals, and formol-preserved specimen in jars, stinky plastic didactic materials... mmmm!!
Do you have 'vertiver' in there? I smelled some of that just the other day and it really did take me back to my school desk: pencil shavings, eraser, wooden ruler, wax crayons, plasticine, grass from the football field. Amazing how it makes it seem like only yesterday. From my email address you can probably guess how many years ago that is!! All that stuff is surfacing in London markets, the last of the Edwardiana.
ReplyDeletenop, no vertiver, just extracts from blossoms/flowers! (and i can't see your e-mail address on your google profile...?)
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