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  • A black man holds a condom between his thumb and finger representing an advertisement for an exhibition on The Art of AIDS Education at Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Massachusetts between April 6 - 20, 1992. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • Aconitum carmichaelii Debeaux. Ranunculaceae. Chinese aconite, Chinese wolfsbane, Carmichael's monkshood. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution C. to W. China to N. America. Named for Dr J.R. Carmichael (d. 1877), English physician, plant collector and Protestant missionary from 1862-1877 in Guangdong and Shandong, China initially in Canton. He aided Francis Forbes to collect plants for Kew. Aconitum plants are so poisonous that Theophrastus states that death was the punishment for possessing them. Aconitine is the poison and was used - from Aconitum ferox - in the 'curry murder' in London in 2009. It causes respiratory paralysis, bradycardia (slowing of the pulse), cardiac arrhythmias, tingling, sweating, gastric cramps, diarrhoea and death, both by ingestion and by absorption through the mucous membranes and the skin. Despite this it is widely used in Chinese herbal medicine. It is a restricted herbal medicine which can only be dispensed by a herbal practitioner for external use following a one-to-one consultation, or by prescription from a registered doctor or dentist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - scorpion boil in the throat
  • C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - Snake-Coil boil
  • Manchester Exhibition of Art treasures, Manchester, England: interior gallery. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1856, after B. Sly after E. Salomons.
  • Cicada pupil. (Male).
  • Cicada pupil. (Female).
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured etching, ca. 1825.
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured etching, ca. 1825.
  • Tributaries.
  • Untitled. 6.
  • Untitled. 58.
  • Untitled. 1.
  • Untitled. 64.
  • Melt.
  • Untitled. 118.
  • Internal.
  • Curdled.
  • Wide awake.
  • Accumulation.
  • Untitled. 3.
  • Untitled. 63.
  • Untitled. 18.
  • Down the plughole.
  • Submergence.
  • Untitled. 114.
  • Silent lament.
  • 3am words.
  • Tangled.
  • The pool of Bethesda. Oil painting by L. Chéron, ca. 1683.