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  • A pregnant schoolgirl from Sierra Leone. Colour lithograph by Sierra Leone Home Economics Association Youth to Youth Project, ca. 2000.
  • Economics: a graph comparing armed forces and gross national product and debt for various European countries. Coloured engraving, [c.1840].
  • For effective and economic therapy, Dequadin lozenges ...
  • Morrell's patent self-acting ash screening closet : detailed plan for fixing with small vault below seat / Sanitary & Economic Manure Company Limited.
  • Anahaemin B.D.H. : the use of anahaemin in the treatment of pernicious anaemia is economic convenient and reliable.
  • Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • The history of vaccination seen from an economic point of view: A pharmacy up for sale; an outmoded inoculist selling his premises; Jenner, to the left, pursues a skeleton with a lancet. Coloured etching, c. 1800.
  • Cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus (CPV) or Cypovirus, is from the Rheoviridae family. It has a double stranded RNA genome and a very stable capsid. It infects insects, including silkworms, and can have an economic impact on the silk industry.
  • A calendar for the years 1995 and 1996 including a central chart outlining the personal, economic and social impact of HIV and AIDS in 5 phases; an AIDS prevention advertisement by The Ministry of Education Training, Vietnam. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Simple recipes for quick and economical dishes : suggested by users of Betox / Phillips Yeast Products Ltd.
  • Simple recipes for quick and economical dishes : suggested by users of Betox / Phillips Yeast Products Ltd.
  • Whiteway's Devonshire Cyder in screw quart flagons : the most refreshing and economical summer beverage ... / Whiteways.
  • Parker's celebrated Danish butter colouring : for colouring butter, is by far the best and most economical preparation / Alfred parker.
  • Order this large Guinness for the home : the large economical family size : Guinness is good for you / Redgate Ltd.
  • Turkey's terrific for healthy eating : nutritious, economical, delicious, versatile / British Turkey Information Service, Health Education Authority supported by the Department of Health.
  • Refined gelatine : a pure and economical substitute for Russian isinglass : forming a colourless jelly, which possesses all the properties of the best calves' feet jelly : directions for use.
  • Percaine "CIBA" : The new local anaesthetic for regional, infiltration, surface and spinal anaesthesia ... not a narcotic. Economical in use. Belongs chemically to a class entirely different from cocaine & its derivatives / Clayton Aniline Co. Ltd.
  • Economical observations on military hospitals; and the prevention and cure of diseases incident to an army, in three parts: addressed I. To Ministers of state and legislatures. II. To commanding officers. III. To the medical staff / [James Tilton].
  • Economical observations on military hospitals; and the prevention and cure of diseases incident to an army, in three parts: addressed I. To Ministers of state and legislatures. II. To commanding officers. III. To the medical staff / [James Tilton].
  • Economical observations on military hospitals; and the prevention and cure of diseases incident to an army, in three parts: addressed I. To Ministers of state and legislatures. II. To commanding officers. III. To the medical staff / [James Tilton].
  • Economical observations on military hospitals; and the prevention and cure of diseases incident to an army, in three parts: addressed I. To Ministers of state and legislatures. II. To commanding officers. III. To the medical staff / [James Tilton].
  • Nepal; agriculture and subsistence in the Khumbu, 1986. Sherpa with young yak. The economic emphasis of the Khumbu is on animal husbandry, and the breeding and tending of yaks and cattle was an important occupation when this photograph was taken. Yaks command a good price. On walled, flat terraces, Sherpas cultivate their staple diet of potatoes, barley, buckwheat, and in lower areas, rice. In this picture, taken at altitude 2900 metres, the land sustains the commercial cultivation of medicinal herbs although increases in production are limited by environmental degradation, largely through soil erosion.
  • Household engineering : scientific management in the home / by Mrs. Christine Frederick. A correspondence course on the application of the principles of efficiency engineering and scientific management to the every day tasks of housekeeping.
  • Household engineering : scientific management in the home / by Mrs. Christine Frederick. A correspondence course on the application of the principles of efficiency engineering and scientific management to the every day tasks of housekeeping.
  • Household engineering : scientific management in the home / by Mrs. Christine Frederick. A correspondence course on the application of the principles of efficiency engineering and scientific management to the every day tasks of housekeeping.
  • Household engineering : scientific management in the home / by Mrs. Christine Frederick. A correspondence course on the application of the principles of efficiency engineering and scientific management to the every day tasks of housekeeping.
  • Taxus baccata L. Taxaceae European Yew. Trees are feminine in Latin, so while Taxus has a masculine ending (-us), its specific name, baccata (meaning 'having fleshy berries' (Stearn, 1994)), agrees with it in gender by having a female ending ( -a). Distribution: Europe. Although regarded as poisonous since Theophrastus, Gerard and his school friends used to eat the red berries (they are technically called 'arils') without harm. Johnson clearly ate the fleshy arils and spat out the seed, which is as poisonous as the leaves. It is a source of taxol, an important chemotherapeutic agent for breast and other cancers. It was first extracted from the bark of T. brevifolia, the Pacific yew tree, in 1966. About 1,100 kg of bark produces 10 g of taxol, and 360,000 trees a year would have been required for the needs of the USA – an unsustainable amount. In 1990 a precursor of taxol was extracted from the needles of the European yew so saving the Pacific trees. It is now produced in fermentation tanks from cell cultures of Taxus. Curiously, there is a fungus, Nodulisporium sylviforme, which lives on the yew tree, that also produces taxol. Because taxol stops cell division, it is also used in the stents that are inserted to keep coronary arteries open. Here it inhibits – in a different way, but like anti-fouling paint on the bottom of ships – the overgrowth of endothelial cells that would otherwise eventually block the tube. The economic costs of anticancer drugs are significant. Paclitaxel ‘Taxol’ for breast cancer costs (2012) £246 every 3 weeks
  • Free trade represented as a woman: the left half is a skeleton being cursed by unemployed and starving British workers; the right half is a beautiful young woman who is giving gold to importers of foreign goods. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 21 November 1886.
  • A handshake between Canada and the United Kingdom over the Atlantic. Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.