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  • Conference notice on medical ethics and practice in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by the Ethiopian Medical Association, 2008.
  • Living will : note to doctors: this living will is not intended as a substitute for discussion / Terrence Higgins Trust, King's College London, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics.
  • Living will : note to doctors: this living will is not intended as a substitute for discussion / Terrence Higgins Trust, King's College London, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics.
  • Living will : note to doctors: this living will is not intended as a substitute for discussion / Terrence Higgins Trust, King's College London, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics.
  • Living will : note to doctors: this living will is not intended as a substitute for discussion / Terrence Higgins Trust, King's College London, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics.
  • Living will : note to doctors: this living will is not intended as a substitute for discussion / Terrence Higgins Trust, King's College London, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics.
  • Living will : note to doctors: this living will is not intended as a substitute for discussion / Terrence Higgins Trust, King's College London, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics.
  • Living will : note to doctors: this living will is not intended as a substitute for discussion / Terrence Higgins Trust, King's College London, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics.
  • Living will : note to doctors: this living will is not intended as a substitute for discussion / Terrence Higgins Trust, King's College London, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics.
  • Catharanthus roseus (L.)G.Don Apocynaceae. Madagascar Periwinkle Distribution: Madagascar. It is the source of vincristine and vinblastine, which impair cell multiplication by interfering with microtubule assembly, causing metaphase arrest and are effective medications for leukaemias, lymphomas and some solid tumours. The mortality from childhood leukaemia fell from 100% to 30% once it was introduced - not a drug that could ethically be tested by double-blind trials. These chemicals were initially discovered by investigators in 1958 who were looking for cures for diabetes so tested this plant which was being used in the West Indies to reduce blood sugar levels. There are 70 different alkaloids present in this plant, and some - catharanthine, leurosine sulphate, lochnerine, tetrahydroalstonine, vindoline and vindolinine - lower blood sugar levels. However, the toxicity of this plant is such that this is not a plant to try at home for diabetic management. The vincristine content of the plant is 0.0003%, so two kilograms of leaf are required to produce sufficient vincristine for a single course of treatment for a child (6gm). Fortunately it is a vigorous weed and easy to grow in the tropics. Artificial synthesis has now been achieved. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Serment d'Hippocrate, précédé d'une notice sur les sermens en médecine / Par J.R. Duval.
  • Serment d'Hippocrate, précédé d'une notice sur les sermens en médecine / Par J.R. Duval.
  • The doctor's oath : an essay in the history of medicine / by W.H.S. Jones.
  • The doctor's oath : an essay in the history of medicine / by W.H.S. Jones.
  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
  • A physician trying to take advantage of a young woman patient by visiting her at home while her husband is out. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
  • Hippocrates refusing the gifts of Artaxerxes. Engraving by Raphael Massard, 1816, after A.L. Girodet-Trioson, 1792.
  • A mesmeric physician taking advantage of his female patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.
  • A mesmeric physician taking advantage of his female patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
  • Two executors overcharge a heir, taking advantage of their distress. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.
  • An old vagrant's corpse is stuffed with newspaper after being raided for useful organs by two pipe-smoking, wisecracking surgeons. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Night calls by doctors: sixteen vignettes. Wood engraving by M. Marais, 1897.
  • Phrenological chart; with design of head containing symbols of the phrenological faculties, and diagrams of heads showing criminal and moral propensities. Wood engraving, c. 1850, after F. Bridges and O.S. Fowler.