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  • Four illustrations showing the dangers of donating contaminated blood and transmitting AIDS through injecting, unsafe sex and pregnancy; a further 4 illustrations show ways in which AIDS is not transmitted from mosquito bites to sharing food; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Project of the Goverment of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. Colour lithograph, 1997?.
  • Lathyrus vernus (L.)Bernh. Papilionaceae previously Orobus vernus L. (Linnaeus, 1753) Spring vetchling. Distribution: Europe to Siberia. The seeds of several Lathyrus species are toxic, and when eaten cause a condition called lathyrism. The chemical diaminoproprionic acid in the seeds causes paralysis, spinal cord damage, aortic aneurysm, due to poisoning of mitochondria causing cell death. Occurs where food crops are contaminated by Lathyrus plants or where it is eaten as a 'famine food' when no other food is available. It is the Orobus sylvaticus purpureus vernus of Bauhin (1671) and Orobus sylvaticus angustifolius of Parkinson (1640) - who records that country folk had no uses for it. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Lathyrus vernus (L.)Bernh. Papilionaceae previously Orobus vernus L. (Linnaeus, 1753) Spring vetchling. Distribution: Europe to Siberia. The seeds of several Lathyrus species are toxic, and when eaten cause a condition called lathyrism. The chemical diaminoproprionic acid in the seeds causes paralysis, spinal cord damage, aortic aneurysm, due to poisoning of mitochondria causing cell death. Occurs where food crops are contaminated by Lathyrus plants or where it is eaten as a 'famine food' when no other food is available. It is the Orobus sylvaticus purpureus vernus of Bauhin (1671) and Orobus sylvaticus angustifolius of Parkinson (1640) - who records that country folk had no uses for it. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Food and its adulterations : comprising the reports of the Analytical sanitary commission of "The Lancet" for the years 1851 to 1854 inclusive, revised and extended being records of the results of some thousands of original microscopical and chemical analyses of the solids and fluids consumed by all classes of the public ... / by Arthur Hill Hassall.
  • Food and its adulterations : comprising the reports of the Analytical sanitary commission of "The Lancet" for the years 1851 to 1854 inclusive, revised and extended being records of the results of some thousands of original microscopical and chemical analyses of the solids and fluids consumed by all classes of the public ... / by Arthur Hill Hassall.
  • Pure fat v. butter / by W. Mathieu Williams.
  • E. & T. Pink : manufacturers of jams, jellies, marmalade, pickles & sauces, spices, chemicals, paper, rice, seeds ... Staple Street, Boro, London.
  • Enteropathogenic E. coli on human intestinal cells
  • Enteropathogenic E. coli on human intestinal cells
  • Enteropathogenic E. coli on human intestinal cells
  • Enteropathogenic E. coli on human intestinal cells
  • Enteropathogenic E. coli on human intestinal cells
  • Enteropathogenic E. coli on human intestinal cells
  • How E. coli causes diarrhoea
  • Enteropathogenic E. coli on human intestinal cells
  • Enteropathogenic E. coli on human intestinal cells
  • Gross's pure baking powder : warranted free from alum and other injurious ingredients, for making unfermented bread so much recommended by medical men : also for making all kinds of puddings, pastry, tea cakes etc. ... / W.H. Gross.
  • Staphylococcal enterotoxin A
  • A desperately unhappy woman cradling her sick child. Etching by T.A. Steinlen, 1902.
  • A fly on sugar crystals
  • Staphylococcal enterotoxin B
  • Temple offering wine, flowers, cakes and bread
  • Temple offering of wine, oil, flowers, cakes and bread
  • Salmonella enterica
  • An African man tearing meat from the carcass of an animal: parasitic infections in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Bacterial toxin in the intestine of a child
  • Lifecycle of hyatid cysts in humans and animals: parasitic infections in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Lifecycle of hyatid cysts in humans and animals: parasitic infections in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.