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  • Are you the sensitive type? : Some people find strong condoms spoil their enjoyment of sex. Any thickness of condom can protect you and your partner from HIV ... / GMFA, London's Gay Men's HIV Prevention Partnership.
  • Indian clubs, and how to use them : a new and complete method for learning to wield light and heavy clubs graduated from the simplest to the most complicated exercises followed by an appendix on strength and strong men / by E. Ferdinand Lemaire.
  • Indian clubs, and how to use them : a new and complete method for learning to wield light and heavy clubs graduated from the simplest to the most complicated exercises followed by an appendix on strength and strong men / by E. Ferdinand Lemaire.
  • A young gay man with an earring smiles with two other men behind him with the message "Okay: I am gay" and "I am strong"; an advertisement by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Reinhard Lorenz, Claus-Wilhelm Klinker and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • Cynara cardunculus L. Asteraceae. Cardoon, Globe Artichoke, Artechokes, Scolymos cinara, Cynara, Cinara. Distribution: Southern Europe and North Africa. Lyte (1576) writes that Dodoens (1552) could find no medical use for them and Galen (c.200 AD) said they were indigestible unless cooked. However, he relates that other authors recommend that if the flower heads are soaked in strong wine, they 'provoke urine and stir up lust in the body.' More prosaically, the roots boiled in wine and drunk it cause the urine to be 'stinking' and so cures smelly armpits. He adds that it strengthens the stomach so causing women to conceive Male children. He goes on to say that the young shoots boiled in broth also stir up lust in men and women, and more besides. Lyte (1576) was translating, I think with elaborations, from the chapter on Scolymos cinara, Artichaut, in Dodoen's Croydeboeck (1552) as L'Ecluse's French translation, Dodoens Histoire des Plantes (1575) does not mention these latter uses, but Dodoen's own Latin translation, the Pemptades (1583), and Gerard's Herbal (1633) both do so. It is useful in understanding the history of these translations to realise that Gerard uses, almost verbatim, the translation of the 'smelly armpit' paragraph from Lyte. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Cynara cardunculus L. Asteraceae. Cardoon, Globe Artichoke, Artechokes, Scolymos cinara, Cynara, Cinara. Distribution: Southern Europe and North Africa. Lyte (1576) writes that Dodoens (1552) could find no medical use for them and Galen (c.200 AD) said they were indigestible unless cooked. However he relates that other authors recommend that if the flower heads are soaked in strong wine, they 'provoke urine and stir up lust in the body.' More prosaically, the roots boiled in wine and drunk it cause the urine to be 'stinking' and so cures smelly armpits. He adds that it strengthens the stomach so causing women to conceive Male children. He goes on to say that the young shoots boiled in broth also stir up lust in men and women, and more besides. Lyte (1576) was translating, I think with elaborations, from the chapter on Scolymos cinara, Artichaut, in Dodoen's Croydeboeck (1552) as L'Ecluse's French translation (1575) does not mention these latter uses, but Dodoen's own Latin translation, the Pemptades(1583), and Gerard's (1633) both do so. It is useful in understanding the history of these translations to realise that Gerard uses, almost verbatim, the translation of the 'smelly armpit' paragraph from Lyte. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A strongman poses next to his weights surrounded by a crowd. Photograph, 19--.
  • A strongman (Emile de Suyck?) invites a woman to volunteer to help him in his final feat. Process print, 1906 (?).
  • A strongman (Emile de Suyck?) invites a woman to volunteer to help him in his final feat. Process print, 1906 (?).
  • A strongman poses next to his weights surrounded by a crowd. Photograph, 19--.
  • A wrestler (?) gazing upwards. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • A wrestler (?) gazing upwards. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • Tony Nelson-Machholz, a strongman and acrobat, rests his head on his fist. Process print, 1914.
  • Tony Nelson-Machholz, a strongman and acrobat, rests his head on his fist. Process print, 1914.
  • A male dwarf said to be Persian and to possess unusual talents. Etching, ca. 1740.
  • A male dwarf said to be Persian and to possess unusual talents. Etching, ca. 1740.
  • Two boys performing as strongmen. Reproduction of a photograph.
  • A strongman prepares to drink a glass of the tonic Byrrh before performing his act. Colour process print, 19--.
  • A strongman prepares to drink a glass of the tonic Byrrh before performing his act. Colour process print, 19--.
  • Owen Farrell, a dwarf. Engraving by J. Hulett, 1742, after H. Gravelot.
  • Owen Farrell, a dwarf. Engraving by J. Hulett, 1742, after H. Gravelot.
  • Owen Farrell, a dwarf. Engraving by J. Hulett, 1742, after H. Gravelot.
  • Mr E. Naucke, weighing 410 lbs. Reproduction of wood engraving.
  • Thomas Topham, lifting 1836 lbs. Engraving after C. Leigh.
  • Mr E. Naucke, weighing 410 lbs. Reproduction of wood engraving.
  • Thomas Topham, lifting 1836 lbs. Etching by C. Leigh, 1741, after W.H. Toms.
  • Thomas Topham, lifting 1836 lbs. Etching, 1820, after C. Leigh.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing over fifty stone, aged 36. Coloured etching.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Oil painting.