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  • A sad lonely child plays alone, anxiety, illustration
  • Message from AIDS Fonds warning that AIDS does not disappear with thinking alone. Colour lithograph.
  • Take care of love ... : Aids doesn't mean you have to be afraid or alone / Sanctuary.
  • Take care of love ... : Aids doesn't mean you have to be afraid or alone / Sanctuary.
  • Take care of love ... : Aids doesn't mean you have to be afraid or alone / Sanctuary.
  • Take care of love ... : Aids doesn't mean you have to be afraid or alone / Sanctuary.
  • A woman alone in choppy water against a sombre sky with the moon and the sun. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1963.
  • A woman alone in choppy water against a sombre sky with the moon and the sun. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1963.
  • Worried or concerned about HIV or AIDS : Sanctuary Pal Line : AIDS doesn't mean you have to be afraid or alone / Sanctuary.
  • Worried or concerned about HIV or AIDS : Sanctuary Pal Line : AIDS doesn't mean you have to be afraid or alone / Sanctuary.
  • Worried or concerned about HIV or AIDS : Sanctuary Pal Line : AIDS doesn't mean you have to be afraid or alone / Sanctuary.
  • Worried or concerned about HIV or AIDS : Sanctuary Pal Line : AIDS doesn't mean you have to be afraid or alone / Sanctuary.
  • An unmarried man sits alone smoking a pipe by the fire and pondering the pros and cons of marriage. Colour process print after Rutherford, 191-.
  • An unmarried man sits alone smoking a pipe by the fire and pondering the pros and cons of marriage. Colour process print after Rutherford, 191-.
  • Two alchemists seeming to produce gold from a furnace; the accompanying text satirises those who pursue alchemy for gold alone. Engraving by C. Weigel, 1698.
  • A horseman showing three different gaits with his horse, including the gallop, the pas and the trot and a horse galloping alone. Etching by C. Parrocel.
  • An HIV positive woman standing alone at the top, and the same woman with another (AIDS-worker) below ; advertising Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Lauterbach and Boek.
  • An anatomical depiction of the life and death of a foetus frames Adam alone in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.A. Fridrich after J.D. Preissler and M. Füssli after C. Huyberts.
  • A man stands drinking alone beneath a light in a smoke filled nightclub; a DJ deck sits behind a cage beside him; advertisement for the Terrence Higgins Trust helpline for those affected by HIV/AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • A couple walking in water with another woman lying down representing a warning that having one partner cannot prevent AIDS alone with an AIDS Hotline; issued by the AIDS Secretariat of the Bahamas. Colour lithograph, ca. 1993.
  • The back view of a standing naked woman with the message 'Alone overnight. Condoms reassure'; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for the AIDS-Tukikeskus, the AIDS support centre by the Finnish AIDS Council. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A series of figures, some alone, some in couples often with one arm extended to the other, within multi-coloured boxes representing the support services offered by Fase, the Fundación Anti-SIDA España, in Madrid. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A man sits alone huddled on some steps representing a man with AIDS who is marginalised from society; advertisement for the National drug and AIDS programme by the Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo [Miinistry of Public Health]. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A man sits alone huddled on some steps representing a man with AIDS who is marginalised from society; advertisement for the National drug and AIDS programme by the Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo [Miinistry of Public Health]. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A young man in a white vest and blue trousers wearing wrist bands sits on a bench with a woman and a black bearded man either side and a crowd of people standing behind; representation of a man not alone with AIDS; an advertisement for the Portuguese League Against AIDS. Colour lithograph by Ihood (?), 1993.
  • Sempervivum tectorum L. Crassulaceae Houseleek, Senegreene Distribution: Europe. Sempervivum means 'live forever', tectorum means 'roof', and was apparently grown on house roofs to protect against lightning. Lyte (1578 distinguishes Stonecrops (Sedum) from Sengreene (Sempervivum) for he advises the Sempervivum, alone or mixed with barley meal, applied topically to burns, scalds, St Anthony's fire [erysipelas], ulcers and sores, will cure them and sore eyes. Apropos of stonecrops (Sedum), he describes the redness and blistering that the sap has on bare skin, and how it is good for poisons for if taken with vinegar by mouth it causes vomiting, but only safe to do so in strong people. He seems fairly confused as to which is which. Not approved by the European Medicines Agency for Traditional Herbal Medicinal use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Sempervivum tectorum L. Crassulaceae Houseleek, Senegreene Distribution: Europe. Sempervivum means 'live forever', tectorum means 'roof', and was apparently grown on house roofs to protect against lightning. Lyte (1578 distinguishes Stonecrops (Sedum) from Sengreene (Sempervivum) for he advises the latter, alone or mixed with barley meal, applied topically to burns, scalds, St Anthony's fire [erysipelas] , ulcers and sores, will cure them and sore eyes. Apropos of stonecrops (Sedum), he describes the redness and blistering that the sap has on bare skin, and how it is good for poisons for if taken with vinegar by mouth it causes vomiting, but only safe to do so in strong people. He seems fairly confused as to which is which. Not approved by the European Medicines Agency for Traditional Herbal Medicinal use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi Lamiaceae. Baikal skullcap. Distribution: China. There are several hundred species of Scutellaria, also known as skull caps, so correct identification is important - in particular from Scutellaria lateriflora an American species known as Blue skullcap. The latter is used as an abortifacient and to expel placenta by the Cherokee and for cleaning the throat by the Iroquois (Austin, 2004). Much vaunted as a treatment for rabies with unlikely statistics (1,400 cases cured by one doctor alone). Also as ‘antispasmodic, nervine, [for] chorea, convulsions, tetanus, tremors, delirium tremens, [and as a] diaphoretic and diuretic'. Toxicity symptoms include mental confusion, stupor, headache, vertigo, photophobia, dilated pupils, difficulty in micturition, bradycardia, tremulousness and languor, followed by wakefulness and restlessness (Milspaugh, 1974). Hutchens (1991) reported that it reduces sexual desire and was used for almost every nervous illness. Scutellaria baicalensis contains baicalin, baicalein and wogonin (European Medicines Agency, September 2010). It is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for treating inflammation, cancer, bacterial and viral infections of the lungs and gut and is one of the '50 Chinese herbs' in the lists of some authors. Scutellaria lateriflora (combined with Verbena officinalis, Passiflora incarnata and the seed of Avena sativa (oats) is licensed for use in Britain as a herbal medicine for temporary relief of mild symptoms of stress such as mild anxiety and to aid sleep, based upon traditional use only. Scutellaria baicalensis is not licensed for use in the UK (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • 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 (?).