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  • Cucurbita maxima 'Golden Hubbard'
  • Cross-section through a bamboo stem, LM
  • HeLa cell, immortal human epithelial cancer cell line, SEM
  • Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
  • Mitochondria network
  • Formation of the inner mass in an early mouse embryo, LM
  • Clonal tracking, mouse fibroblasts
  • Ambulance on route to an emergency call out, UK.
  • Thigh bones (femora) from Japanese quail, micro-CT
  • Paeonia suffruticosa 'Bai Yu'
  • Varicose Veins, Legs. Female. Illustrated with thermography
  • Epithalamus of developing zebrafish
  • Human heart (mitral valve) tissue displaying calcification
  • Raynaud's Phenomenon
  • Knot in hair
  • Knot in hair
  • The maze of trees, emotional cancer journey, artwork
  • Left and right brain functions, artwork
  • Solanum atropurpureum Schrank Solanaceae. Purple Devil. Purple-spined Nightshade. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: Brazil. This ferociously spined plant contains tropane alkaloids, atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine. All are anticholinergic and block the acetylcholine mediated actions of the parasympathetic nervous system. While the alkaloids are used in medicine and as an antidote to anticholinergic nerve gas poisons, the plant itself is not used in medicine. Its sharp spines can be irritant. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Networking energies
  • Agrimonia eupatoria L. Agrimony, Eupatorium, Maudlein. Perennial herb. The species name comes from king Mithridates Eupator VI of Pontus (132-63 BC) who took regular doses of poison to develop an immunity to them. A 'Mithridate' was a medicine against poisons. Distribution: N. and S. Africa, N. Asia, Europe. '…provokes urine and the terms [periods], dries the brain, opens stoppings, helps the green sickness [iron deficiency anaemia], and profits such as have a cold weak liver outwardly applied it takes away the hardness of the matrix [=uterus] and fills hollow ulcers with flesh' (Culpeper, 1650). Dioscorides (Beck, 2005) recommends mashed leaves in hog's grease for healing scarring ulcers, and the seed in wine for dysentery and serpent bites. Goodyear's 1655 translation of Dioscorides (Gunther 2000) has this as cannabis, which Parkinson (1640) says is in error and summarises the manifold uses from classical authors, from removing splinters to stopping menorrhagia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Animal flight muscle mitochondria
  • Rudbeckia triloba L. Asteraceae Orange Cone flower. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: North America. It is named for Olof Rudbeck, father (1630–1702) and son (1660–1740). Olof Rudbeck the Elder was professor of medicine at Uppsala University, and established a botanic garden there. He was the discoverer of the human lymphatic system. His son succeeded his father as professor of medicine, and one of his students was Carl Linnaeus (1707–88) who named the genus Rudbeckia after him and his father. It is a plant which is poisonous to cattle, sheep and pigs with no medicinal uses. Austin (1974) discusses R. hirta, also regarded as a toxic plant. It was used externally by the Cherokee to bathe sores and snakebites and made into a tea for treating diarrhoea. The Seminoles used it for headaches and fever and the Miccosukee for sunstroke and headache. The Cherokee and the Iroquois used it to treat intestinal worms Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Breast cancer cell spheroid treated with doxorubicin, SEM
  • Acorus gramineus 'Oborozuki'
  • Partners in crime - chloroplasts and mitochondria
  • Corrosion cast of an otter's lung
  • Breast cancer cell spheroid treated with doxorubicin, SEM
  • Omasum and abomasum (stomach chambers), goat
  • Beetle larva living on a spider-hunting wasp