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  • Elephantiasis in the right leg of an inhabitant of the West Indies. Photograph.
  • Jamaica is the largest of the British West Indies... : November 1929 : Washburn-Crosby Co. Gold Medal Flour / Ross T. Smyth & Co., Ltd.
  • Bananas that may harbour mosquitos carrying the yellow fever virus, being loaded onto a ship in the West Indies (?). Watercolour by E. Schwarz, 1920/1950 (?).
  • Venus as a black woman slave travelling on a shell across the Atlantic from Angola to the West Indies. Engraving by W. Grainger, 1794, after T. Stothard.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • A white man (Johnny Newcome) sits on a beach in the West Indies: he is having a sunshade held over him while he whips a black man who is on his knees. Coloured etching by W. Elmes, 1812.
  • Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old, from the Caribee Islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.42, Piccadilly, opposite St. James' Churc. He is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the wonderful works of God ...
  • Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old from the Caribbee islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.41, Strand, near Messrs. Couts & Co. bankers : he is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the works of God, being beautifully covered by a diversity of spots of the most beautiful black and transparent brown and white.
  • 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.
  • For comprehensive treatment of depression and anxiety Triptafen-Minor Triptafen-DA Triptafen-Forte : West India Dock.
  • For comprehensive treatment of depression and anxiety Triptafen-Minor Triptafen-DA Triptafen-Forte : West India Dock.
  • Royal West India Mail Steamer 'Tyne'. Dr. Acland - a passenger wrote a long letter to the 'Oxford Herald' about this disaster.
  • The Royal Naval Hospital and the Queen's House, Greenwich, from the south, the Isle of Dogs and West India Docks beyond. Engraving by T. Reeve after E. Pugh, 1804.
  • Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende Warhafftige vnd vollkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften / Insulen / Königreichen vnd Provintzien / Seecusten / fliessenden vnd stehenden Wassern / Port vnd Anländungen / Gebürgen / Thälern / Stätt / Flecken vnd Wohnplätzen / zusampt der Natur vnd Eygenschafft dess Erdrichs / der Lufft / der Mineren vnd Metallen / der brennenden Vulcanen oder Schwefelbergen / der Siedenden vnd anderer heilsamen Quellen / wie auch der Thier / Vögel / Fisch vnd Gewürm in denselben / sampt andern wunderbaren Sreaturen vnd Miraculn der Natur / in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyes. Dess-gleichen gründlicher Bericht von der innwohner Beschaffenheit / Sitten / Qualitäten / Policey und Götzendienst / Leben vnd Wesen / barbarischer Unwissenheit vnd vnerhörter Grausankeit dess meisten Theils dieser wilden Leute / sampt Unterscheyd der Nationen / Sprachen vnd Gebräuchen. Item, historische vnd aussführliche Relation 38. fürnembster Schiffarten vnterschiedlicher Völcker in West-Indien / von der ersten Entdeckung durch Christophorum Columbum / in 150. Jahren / vollbracht / [Johann Ludwig Gottfried].
  • Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende Warhafftige vnd vollkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften / Insulen / Königreichen vnd Provintzien / Seecusten / fliessenden vnd stehenden Wassern / Port vnd Anländungen / Gebürgen / Thälern / Stätt / Flecken vnd Wohnplätzen / zusampt der Natur vnd Eygenschafft dess Erdrichs / der Lufft / der Mineren vnd Metallen / der brennenden Vulcanen oder Schwefelbergen / der Siedenden vnd anderer heilsamen Quellen / wie auch der Thier / Vögel / Fisch vnd Gewürm in denselben / sampt andern wunderbaren Sreaturen vnd Miraculn der Natur / in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyes. Dess-gleichen gründlicher Bericht von der innwohner Beschaffenheit / Sitten / Qualitäten / Policey und Götzendienst / Leben vnd Wesen / barbarischer Unwissenheit vnd vnerhörter Grausankeit dess meisten Theils dieser wilden Leute / sampt Unterscheyd der Nationen / Sprachen vnd Gebräuchen. Item, historische vnd aussführliche Relation 38. fürnembster Schiffarten vnterschiedlicher Völcker in West-Indien / von der ersten Entdeckung durch Christophorum Columbum / in 150. Jahren / vollbracht / [Johann Ludwig Gottfried].
  • Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende Warhafftige vnd vollkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften / Insulen / Königreichen vnd Provintzien / Seecusten / fliessenden vnd stehenden Wassern / Port vnd Anländungen / Gebürgen / Thälern / Stätt / Flecken vnd Wohnplätzen / zusampt der Natur vnd Eygenschafft dess Erdrichs / der Lufft / der Mineren vnd Metallen / der brennenden Vulcanen oder Schwefelbergen / der Siedenden vnd anderer heilsamen Quellen / wie auch der Thier / Vögel / Fisch vnd Gewürm in denselben / sampt andern wunderbaren Sreaturen vnd Miraculn der Natur / in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyes. Dess-gleichen gründlicher Bericht von der innwohner Beschaffenheit / Sitten / Qualitäten / Policey und Götzendienst / Leben vnd Wesen / barbarischer Unwissenheit vnd vnerhörter Grausankeit dess meisten Theils dieser wilden Leute / sampt Unterscheyd der Nationen / Sprachen vnd Gebräuchen. Item, historische vnd aussführliche Relation 38. fürnembster Schiffarten vnterschiedlicher Völcker in West-Indien / von der ersten Entdeckung durch Christophorum Columbum / in 150. Jahren / vollbracht / [Johann Ludwig Gottfried].
  • Islamic map of the world. The north is at the bottom, with the west to the right surrounded by unknown seas. The Indian Ocean, with the Red Sea, is on the left, with China, India and Iran in boxes to the right. The other sea shown is the Mediterranean next to which is a black square indicating Rome and a circle Constantinople. The Nile flows from the Mediterranean to the east and into the north then turn east and head towards a large circle indicating its source in Africa.