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  • From the Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Kenneth Calman, MD PhD FRCS (Glas, ed) FRCP (Lond, Ed) FRCGHP FRCR MFCM FRSE ... HIV & AIDS, the issues : Dear Colleague, "HIV and AIDS - the issues" education pack for hospital doctors ...
  • From the Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Kenneth Calman, MD PhD FRCS (Glas, ed) FRCP (Lond, Ed) FRCGHP FRCR MFCM FRSE ... HIV & AIDS, the issues : Dear Colleague, "HIV and AIDS - the issues" education pack for hospital doctors ...
  • Notice for annual medical conference in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by the Ethiopian Medical Association, 2001.
  • Leprosy: impairment records
  • A gloved hand holding up a bird cage inscribed 'Blood bank' containing the HIV virus cell with the warning 'No escape for AIDS'; an advertisement issued by Ortho Diagnostic Systems, a division of Johnson & Johnson Limited. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • A dripping blood transfusion bag with the warning 'ensure it is AIDS free' and a pink ticket bearing the lettering 'Certified HIV free'; an advertisement issued by Ortho Diagnostic Systems. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Althaea officinalis L. Malvaceae. Marsh Mallow. Herbaceous perennial. Althaea comes from the Greek word for healing
  • Althaea officinalis L. Malvaceae. Marsh Mallow. Herbaceous perennial. Althaea comes from the Greek word for healing
  • Native American children in a variety of poses suggesting blindness and hiding representing a warning that we isolate ourselves from HIV/AIDS; advertisement about AIDS education and clinical services for native Indian women and children by the Seattle Indian Health Board. Colour lithograph.
  • Beate, Bianca and Babette, three male models dressed in women's clothes with a glamour checklist that includes safe sex precautions; advertisement for Gay Men's Outreach and Education by the Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc., Washington by the DC Department of Human Services. Colour lithograph.
  • Vitex agnus-castus var. latifolia