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  • Surgical instruments and patients with diseases of the breast. Engraving with etching by R. Parr.
  • Chinese woodcut: Disease location: breast abscess
  • A woman of Martinique with her left breast greatly enlarged by disease. Photograph.
  • A breast with an area of skin disease. Coloured stipple engraving by S. Tresca after Moreau-Valvile, c. 1806.
  • A diseased female breast. Watercolour.
  • A diseased female breast. Watercolour, 1824.
  • Coloured illustration of female breast diseased with Syphilis.
  • Diseased skin on the face of a girl suffering from molluscum contagiosum, shown beside a diseased breast, with two details below showing sebaceous follicles and cells as seen under a microscope. Chromolithograph by E. Burgess (?), 1850/1880?.
  • Uganda: a Lango woman with diseased skin holding a baby; she has applied a leaf as a dressing to her swollen left breast. Photograph by Cecil John Hackett, ca. 1937.
  • Helianthus annuus Greene Asteraceae. Sunflower, Marigold of Peru, Floure of the Sun. Distribution: Peru and Mexico. It was much recommended by Gerard (1633) who advises that the buds, covered in flour, boiled, and eaten with 'butter, vinegar and pepper, far surpass artichokes in procuring bodily lust’. Sadly, today only the seeds of sunflower are consumed, as the source of sunflower seed oil used in cooking. It contains mono and polyunsaturated fats, linoleic acid and oleic acid, and is low in saturated fats. As such it was thought to lower cholesterol and so the risk of heart disease, but it may increase the risk of breast and prostatic cancer. However a recent report BMJ2013
  • A warning about the hazardous and the non-hazardous practices in relation to the transmission of AIDS issued by the Bundesministerium für Jugend, Familie, Frauen und Gesundheit [Federal Ministry for Youth, Family, Women and Health]. Colour lithograph.
  • The breast and hip of a woman resting on the arm of a man with the message "HIV positive - we have lust, we have sex"; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph.
  • List of ways HIV is transmitted; eighth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • Be a Shanti volunteer : you can give practical and emotional in-home support to someone living with HIV/AIDS or breast cancer ... / Shanti.
  • Be a Shanti volunteer : you can give practical and emotional in-home support to someone living with HIV/AIDS or breast cancer ... / Shanti.
  • An analytical or synoptical view of the principal diseases incident to the human body : together with their causes.
  • An analytical or synoptical view of the principal diseases incident to the human body : together with their causes.
  • Mid C20 Chinese medical illustration in trad. style: Smallpox
  • Chinese C18: Paediatric pox - 'Gathered on the Breast' pox
  • Saint Lucy and Saint Agatha. Oil painting.
  • Saint Lucy and Saint Agatha. Oil painting.
  • Breasts of a woman with chronic eczema of the nipples
  • Votive offerings: 5 terra cotta model of female breast
  • Chinese woodcut: Abscesses -- breast tumours and swellings
  • Acute pathologies, infantile diarrhoea, Chinese lithograph
  • Chinese woodcut: Breast tumour
  • Paget's disease of the nipple
  • Surgical instruments used, and operations successfully carried out, by an English travelling operator claiming royal patronage. Line engraving, 16--.
  • Surgical instruments used, and operations successfully carried out, by an English travelling operator claiming royal patronage. Line engraving, 16--.
  • Surgical instruments used, and operations successfully carried out, by an English travelling operator claiming royal patronage. Line engraving, 16--.