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  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • HIV? AIDS? : we're older people it's not our problem ... / The Positive Place, Age Concern Lewisham.
  • Municipal old people's home (Fondation Valentin), Levallois-Perret, France. Process print, 1913.
  • Municipal old people's home (Fondation Valentin), Levallois-Perret: façade and lateral elevation. Process print, 1913.
  • Surgeons' Hall, Old Bailey, London, the facade, with various people in the street. Wood engraving.
  • Two young people and an old monk in prayer. Etching by V. Ferreri after B. Pinelli.
  • People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.
  • Two old people both with walking sticks stand facing one another. Etching by I.C. White.
  • An old woman and a visitor in a living room, and two old men in a garden; representing the need for care of elderly people in Wales. Lithograph, ca. 1960.
  • An old man on a bicycle; advertising an award for care of elderly people in Wales. Colour lithograph, 1964.
  • An old woman and a visitor in a living room, and two old men in a garden; representing the need for care of elderly people in Wales. Colour lithograph, ca. 1960.
  • Old Calabar, Nigeria: local people gathering drinking water from a river, filling vessels and washing clothes (?). Photograph, 1910/1920.
  • An old pedlar shows his wares to a crowd of people among which an old lady wearing spectacles takes a keen interest. Etching by J.D. Both after A.D. Both.
  • A group of people gathered around an old lady sitting by a spinning wheel holding a spool of yarn. Lithograph by Gustave Janet.
  • Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.
  • People engaged in pleasures (dancing, drinking, gaming, flirting) to counteract the pains of illness and old age. Line engraving attributed to O. van Veen (Vaenius).
  • Good food for better health : easy eating for the over sixties / issued jointly by the British Dietetic Association Incorporated... and the National Old People's Welfare Council.
  • Good food for better health : easy eating for the over sixties / issued jointly by the British Dietetic Association Incorporated... and the National Old People's Welfare Council.
  • An old woman, the prude, is standing near a crowd of people huddled around a bonfire in Covent Garden; representing the morning. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • An old woman is sitting on a chair with young people around in groups and a large cauldron on an open fire. Engraving by S. Smith after T. Stothard.
  • Belisarius as a blind old man with a stick, leans against a column with broken masonry around him and stretches out his hands: he is watched by people in the background. Engraving by R. Strange after S. Rosa.
  • An old smuggler (Mr Moffit) is shot dead by a naval inspector with a pistol, who finds rolls of tobacco in the dead man's pockets; other people attend the scene. Engraving by W. Greatbach, 1833, after F. Pickering.
  • A personified penis wearing sunglasses and a condom as a hat with a message about supporting people with AIDS; below is a forlorn looking figure with arms outstretched among flowers representing a child with AIDS, an illustration originally by J Keeler inspired by the experience of the hemophiliac 13-year old, Ryan White; an advertisement by the Community AIDS Service in Penang (CASP). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Vicia faba L. Fabaceae. Broad beans, Fava bean. Distribution: N. Africa, SW Asia. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Fabarum. Of Beans. Of Bean Cods (or Pods as we in Sussex call them) being burned, the ashes are a sovereign remedy for aches in the joints, old bruises, gout and sciaticaes.’ The beans are perfectly edible for the majority, but 1% of Caucasians, predominantly among Greeks, Italians and people from the Eastern Mediterranean regions, have a genetic trait in that they lack the ability to produce the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. As a consequence, eating broad beans or even inhaling the pollen, causes a severe haemolytic anaemia a few days later. This condition is known as favism. The whole plant, including the beans, contains levodopa, a precursor of dopamine, and some patients with Parkinsonism report symptomatic improvement after commencing on a diet that contains these beans regularly. A case of neuroleptic malignant-like syndrome (fever, rigidity, autonomic instability, altered consciousness, elevated creatine phosphokinase levels) consequent on abrupt discontinuation of a diet containing plenty of broad beans, has been described in a patient with Parkinsonism. This is usually seen when patients abruptly discontinue L-dopa therapy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.