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  • Galvanic anti-neuralgic headband made up of a series of 24 alternate zinc and copper discs mounted onto a felt and ribbon band. The headband was tied around the head, with the discs resting on the temples, where perspiration would act on the discs by producing a mild galvanic current
  • DNA bands on a gel
  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy - normal female, chromosomes have been highlighted by a fluorescent probe for exon 45/47 (note the double yellow band). This disorder is caused by a recessive gene on the X chromosome, so is normally shown only by males, who lack a second X chromosome. The condition starts with difficulty in walking and climbing stairs in early childhood, usually resulting in confinement to a wheelchair by the age of 10, with death from respiratory infection or cardiac failure by about the age of 20.
  • A snake, dark green in colour with pale cross-bands and two narrow yellow bands running along the length of the back. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A music event organised by RockAIDS featuring a number of bands including The Real People. Photocopy.
  • A music event organised by RockAIDS featuring a number of bands including The Real People. Photocopy.
  • A snake, dark in colour with bands of blue and white running along each side. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A snake, dark green/brown in colour, with dark brown oval-shaped markings or cross-bands edged in white. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A snake, very small and slender, pale yellow in colour, with dark brown oval-shaped markings or cross-bands. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A leering bear with soiled clerical bands, a pot of beer and a club is pictured behind a dog urinating on pamphlets. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • A snake, dark brown in colour, with black cross-bands and two yellow lines running along the length of the back. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A snake, slender and green in colour, with a darker zig-zag marking along its back and bands of pink running along each side of the upper body. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A group of gay men including a transvestite, a black man and a man in a wheelchair sit having a picnic on a check blanket in a field with the message: "Familien-Bande"; an advertisement for the support services for all those affected by AIDS by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • A twelve banded armadillo. Coloured etching.
  • A woman wearing an extraordinarily high wig decorated with beads and lace, discusses her head-dress while taking tea with a man sitting opposite who wears a legal tie wig, gown and bands; on the wall is a framed picture of two monkeys sitting at a table drinking tea. Mezzotint, 1772.
  • A woman wearing an extraordinarily high wig decorated with beads and lace, discusses her head-dress while taking tea with a man sitting opposite who wears a legal tie wig, gown and bands; on the wall is a framed picture of two monkeys sitting at a table drinking tea. Mezzotint, 1772.
  • 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.
  • A Tinguian making an offering to the guardian stones. The stones, in which the guardian spirits are supposed to live, are, before certain ceremonies, tied up with bark-like bands and rubbed with oil. Then the blood for a pig is mixed with rice which is scattered before them.
  • Above, a banded gilt head; middle, a occellated blenny; below, a gemmeous dragmet. Coloured engraving by W. H. Lizars.
  • A snake, black or dark grey in colour, with white cross-banded markings. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • Two Indian women wearing trousers banded with a wavy red pattern. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A snake, brown in colour, with broken black cross-banded markings on the lower body. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A snake, small and slender, tan/brown in colour, cross-banded with black markings edged with white. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A banded rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) and boa constrictor (Boa constrictor) with diagrams of their open mouths. Engraving, ca. 1823.
  • A snake, slender and brown in colour, with dark narrow cross-banded markings on the upper body. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • Above, two dendrites with treelike and mosslike markings, a nine banded armadillo, a beetle, four marsupials and two teleostean fishes (diodons). Etching by Heath.
  • The son of Nawaub of Banda seated on an oriental rug holding a sword within an ornate border. Lithograph by L.C. Dickinson, 1844, after Emily Eden.
  • A poisonous snake, yellow in colour, with broad grey cross-banded markings: includes a detail of the tail and two outline drawings of the head. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • Two Indian women: (left) wearing pink and grey striped trousers and (right) wearing trousers banded with a wavy red pattern. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A poisonous snake (bungarus caeruleus), dark in colour, with narrow white cross-banded markings: includes two outline drawings of the head and one of the tail. Watercolour, ca. 1795.