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  • Bournemouth rationing scheme : leaflet for the guidance of the householder who fills up and signs the application form / A.B.B. Scott, Executive Officer, Bournemouth Food Control Committee.
  • Bournemouth rationing scheme : leaflet for the guidance of the householder who fills up and signs the application form / A.B.B. Scott, Executive Officer, Bournemouth Food Control Committee.
  • 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 person receiving a blood transfusion, 2 people forming a brown shadow within a red heart, a range of sharp instruments about to be sterilised, and a pregnant woman with the silhouette of her fetus showing; a warning about the dangers of contracting AIDS by the AIDS Control Project of the Goverment of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Visualising the human breath ("I"), Artwork
  • Visualising the human breath ("Breathe"), Artwork
  • Blue Weevil, Close-up
  • Blue Weevil, Anterior
  • Blue Weevil, Lateral
  • Blue Weevil, Close-up
  • Visualising the human breath ("Sing"), Artwork
  • Nodal gene expression in mouse embryos
  • A Gene Timer system
  • Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), X-ray
  • Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), X-ray
  • General Georges Mouton sits perched on an enormous clyster; representing his use of a prototype water-cannon in quelling an uprising. Lithograph after A. Desperret after Charles Philipon, c. 1831.
  • The residence of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier in Paris at Boulevard de la Madeleine, no. 11. Wood engraving by Cordier after Provost.
  • Chinese woodcut: Daoist internal alchemy (13)
  • China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Mouse kidney
  • Brighton College, Brighton. Wood engraving, 1849.
  • Synthetic DNA channel transporting cargo across membranes
  • Synthetic DNA channel transporting cargo across membranes
  • Synthetic DNA channel transporting cargo across membranes.
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a male Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Thigh bone (femur) from a female Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Thigh bones (femora) from Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Coupon issues for the month of ... 195- : Feeding stuffs coupons, for your farm livestock, are enclosed as listed below... / Cambridge A.E.C., Feeding Stuffs Department.