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  • Anaesthesia exhibition, October 1946; first showcase: narcotic and stimulating drugs.
  • Senecio pulcher Hook.&Arn. Asteraceae Distribution: South America. It has not attracted attention as a medicinal or toxic plant but members of the genus Senecio contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids that are toxic to the liver and may cause liver cancer. A traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) product, Qianbai Biyan Pian, contains Senecio scandens which contains the unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids, senecionine and seneciphylline. This is now a banned drug. (Safety of Herbal Medicinal Products, July 2002, Medicines Control Agency). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Senecio pulcher Hook.&Arn. Asteraceae Distribution: South America. It has not attracted attention as a medicinal or toxic plant but members of the genus Senecio contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids that are toxic to the liver and may cause liver cancer. A traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) product, Qianbai Biyan Pian, contains Senecio scandens which contains the unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids, senecionine and seneciphylline. This is now a banned drug. (Safety of Herbal Medicinal Products, July 2002, Medicines Control Agency). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Solanum laciniatum Aiton Solanaceae. Kangaroo Apple. Evergreen shrub. Distribution: New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. It contains steroidal saponins that can be converted into steroids, including progesterone, oestrogens, cortisone, prednisolone etc. In 1943, Professor Russell Marker discovered a method of obtaining an unsaturated steroidal saponine, diosogenin, from Mexican yam (Dioscorea mexicana), which can easily and cheaply be converted into steroids, such as prednisone and progesterone, reducing the price of steroid production to a fraction (0.5%) of its former cost. For 20 years drug companies showed little interest, and it was only as a result of Professor Marker forming his own company, and the concerted efforts of several gynaecologists, physiologists and birth-control advocates, that the contraceptive pill was ‘born’ in 1960. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A woman pushes a trolley down a dilapidated street in Lima, Peru representing poverty; with 4 smaller images depicting social issues associated with AIDS including packets of money in bank safes, drugs and male prostitutes; an AIDS prevention advertisement by Pecos, the Programa Especial de Control del SIDA. Colour lithograph by Juan L. Gargurevich, ca. 1995.
  • Guidelines for the management of acute paracetamol overdose in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by DACA, ca. 2000.
  • International exhibition on wellness, health and medicine in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Colour lithograph for Prana Promotion, 2010.
  • Ventolin rotacaps.
  • Ventolin rotacaps.
  • Ventolin rotacaps.
  • Ventolin rotacaps.
  • Ventolin inhaler and rotacaps : red-legged partridge.
  • Ventolin rotacaps and rotahaler : tree sparrow.
  • Ventolin inhaler rotacaps & rotahaler : red-backed shrike.
  • Ventolin rotacaps and rotahaler : tree sparrow.
  • Ventolin inhaler rotacaps & rotahaler : red-backed shrike.
  • Ventolin inhaler and rotacaps : heron.
  • Ventolin inhaler and rotacaps : blackcap.
  • Ventolin inhaler and rotacaps : blackcap.
  • Ventolin inhaler : redwing.
  • Ventolin inhaler : redwing.
  • Ventolin inhaler and rotacaps : red-legged partridge.
  • Ventolin rotacaps and rotahaler : dipper.
  • Ventolin inhaler and rotacaps : red grouse.
  • Ventolin inhaler and rotacaps : red grouse.
  • Ventolin rotacaps and rotahaler : dipper.
  • Ventolin inhaler and rotacaps : heron.
  • Page's patent vapouriser and cresolene : whooping cough instantly relieved and quickly cured.
  • Triptafen-Minor treats both the anxiety and any underlying depression : sun and moon clock circa 1680.
  • Triptafen-Minor treats both the anxiety and any underlying depression : sun and moon clock circa 1680.