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  • An ornate garden obelisk with carvings depicting hunting scenes and weapons. Etching by J. Goeree after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
  • A goddess sits among a crowd of mythological figures with musical instruments and weapons; representing mineralogy. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1817.
  • Slaughter of the innocent : captive bolt pistols, electrodes, knives, scalpels, guns, rods, goads... the obsolete weapons of a needless war / The Vegan Society.
  • Slaughter of the innocent : captive bolt pistols, electrodes, knives, scalpels, guns, rods, goads... the obsolete weapons of a needless war / The Vegan Society.
  • A group of boys with a flag and weapons take hold of one boy who is attempting to escape. Lithograph by Thomas Fairland after Robert Farrier.
  • An ornate vase and pedestal with a bust and weapons carved on the side, in a classical garden. Etching by J. Schynvoet, c. 1701, after S. Schynvoet.
  • A Chinese deity identified as Kuan Yin, seated in the lotus position on a jade throne, with ten arms, carrying weapons, a bell and round objects. Painting by a Chinese artist.
  • A cloaked figure of death bearing the word 'AIDS' on one sleeve and holding syringes that spill blood as if weapons; advertisement for the Sterile Needle Exchange by the Life Foundation Community Health Outreach Program. Colour lithograph.
  • Fact files : World AIDS Day 1st December 1996 : the red ribbon is an international symbol of AIDS awareness : the most effective weapons against HIV are information and education / WAD Project, Health Education Authority, National AIDS Trust.
  • Fact files : World AIDS Day 1st December 1996 : the red ribbon is an international symbol of AIDS awareness : the most effective weapons against HIV are information and education / WAD Project, Health Education Authority, National AIDS Trust.
  • Fact files : World AIDS Day 1st December 1996 : the red ribbon is an international symbol of AIDS awareness : the most effective weapons against HIV are information and education / WAD Project, Health Education Authority, National AIDS Trust.
  • Fact files : World AIDS Day 1st December 1996 : the red ribbon is an international symbol of AIDS awareness : the most effective weapons against HIV are information and education / WAD Project, Health Education Authority, National AIDS Trust.
  • Fact files : World AIDS Day 1st December 1996 : the red ribbon is an international symbol of AIDS awareness : the most effective weapons against HIV are information and education / WAD Project, Health Education Authority, National AIDS Trust.
  • Fact files : World AIDS Day 1st December 1996 : the red ribbon is an international symbol of AIDS awareness : the most effective weapons against HIV are information and education / WAD Project, Health Education Authority, National AIDS Trust.
  • Skull showing wedged weapon fracture, Roman period
  • One woman protects a boy while another stands guard by the door with a weapon. Engraving.
  • A short-handled flail (weapon) with four metal chains ending in metal weights. Engraving by J. Basire after R. Stothard, 1827.
  • A short-handled flail (weapon) with four metal chains ending in metal weights. Engraving by J. Basire after R. Stothard, 1827.
  • A short-handled flail (weapon) with four metal chains ending in metal weights. Engraving by J. Basire after R. Stothard, 1827.
  • Weapon of mass protection : every 6 seconds someone is infected with HIV ... know the facts, know how to protect yourself / Staying alive, www.staying-alive.org.
  • Weapon of mass protection : every 6 seconds someone is infected with HIV ... know the facts, know how to protect yourself / Staying alive, www.staying-alive.org.
  • Weapon of mass protection : every 6 seconds someone is infected with HIV : You've heard of AIDS. You've heard of HIV. Think you're not at risk? Are you positive? / Staying alive, www.staying-alive.org.
  • Weapon of mass protection : every 6 seconds someone is infected with HIV : You've heard of AIDS. You've heard of HIV. Think you're not at risk? Are you positive? / Staying alive, www.staying-alive.org.
  • Weapon of mass protection : every 6 seconds someone is infected with HIV : You've heard of AIDS. You've heard of HIV. Think you're not at risk? Are you positive? / Staying alive, www.staying-alive.org.
  • Origanum dictamnus L. Lamiaceae Dittany of Crete, Hop marjoram. Distribution: Crete. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘... hastens travail [labour] in women, provokes the Terms [menstruation] . See the Leaves.’ Under 'Leaves' he writes: ‘Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, ... brings away dead children, hastens womens travail, brings away the afterbirth, the very smell of it drives away venomous beasts, so deadly an enemy is it to poison, it’s an admirable remedy against wounds and Gunshot, wounds made with poisoned weapons, draws out splinters, broken bones etc. They say the goats and deers in Creet, being wounded with arrows, eat this herb, which makes the arrows fall out of themselves.' Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (c. 100 AD, trans. Beck, 2005), Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants all have this information, as does Vergil’s Aeneid where he recounts how Venus produced it when her son, Aeneas, had received a deadly wound from an arrow, which fell out on its own when the wound was washed with it (Jashemski, 1999). Dioscorides attributes the same property to ‘Tragium’ or ‘Tragion’ which is probably Hypericum hircinum (a St. John’s Wort): ‘Tragium grows in Crete only ... the leaves and the seed and the tear, being laid on with wine doe draw out arrow heads and splinteres and all things fastened within ... They say also that ye wild goats having been shot, and then feeding upon this herb doe cast out ye arrows.’ . It has hairy leaves, in common with many 'vulnaries', and its alleged ability to heal probably has its origin in the ability of platelets to coagulate more easily on the hairs (in the same way that cotton wool is applied to a shaving cut to hasten clotting). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The republican solidarity of Joseph Priestley and Thomas Paine; indicated by the grinning devil that links them. Etching by I. Cruikshank, 1792.
  • A battle. Ink drawing.
  • An axe-head and figure of an Australian native
  • Iron staff surmounted by pellet balls and grotesque figures. African [?]
  • Afghan soldiers caught between allied troops in the Anglo-Afghan war, 1839-42. Coloured transfer lithograph.