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  • A seated écorché figure, clasping its right shoulder with its left hand, as if in thought. Crayon manner print by Lavalée, after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
  • Unprotected? Worried about getting HIV? : Ever thought you might be passing it on? Assume nothing / designed and produced by Spencer Landau ; photography by Peter Dazeley.
  • Unprotected? Worried about getting HIV? : Ever thought you might be passing it on? Assume nothing / designed and produced by Spencer Landau ; photography by Peter Dazeley.
  • Food for thought... : food facts for healthy hearts from the British Heart Foundation, the heart research charity / written, designed and produced by Burnett Associates ; illustrated by Val Sassoon.
  • Food for thought... : food facts for healthy hearts from the British Heart Foundation, the heart research charity / written, designed and produced by Burnett Associates ; illustrated by Val Sassoon.
  • Rudiments of physiology, in three parts. Part I, On life, as manifested in sensation and in thought ... / Edited by Robert Lewins ... with a biographical memoir of the author.
  • An introverted and an extroverted man; exhibiting excessive and lacking propensities connected with the faculty of causality (reflective thought) in phrenology. Steel engraving by E. Monnin, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Food for thought... : food facts for healthy hearts from the British Heart Foundation, the heart research charity / written, designed and produced by Burnett Associates ; illustrated by Val Sassoon.
  • A man with AIDS deep in thought crouching down looking to the right; a warning in English and Chinese about the dangers of casual sex and contracting AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A man with AIDS deep in thought crouching down looking to the right; a warning in English and Malay about the dangers of casual sex and contracting AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A young Thai man sits against a wall and tree trunk deep in thought; an AIDS awareness advertisement by the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Thailand. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • An exhausted nurse who has been looking after her patient for many hours asks when she may go to bed, the patient's mother retorts that she thought she was a trained nurse. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill.
  • A young woman is sitting in a chair with a tapestry in a frame in front of her, trying to be distracted from the thought of her forced marriage. Engraving by W.H. Simmons, 1840, after J.H. Nixon.
  • Great safer sex for grown-ups : if you thought that safer sex was boring, or dull, or not 'real' sex, read on / produced by Women's Health Information Mobile ... with assistance from Aidsline, the Health Promotion Service, Enfield Health Authority.
  • Great safer sex for grown-ups : if you thought that safer sex was boring, or dull, or not 'real' sex, read on / produced by Women's Health Information Mobile ... with assistance from Aidsline, the Health Promotion Service, Enfield Health Authority.
  • Great safer sex for grown-ups : if you thought that safer sex was boring, or dull, or not 'real' sex, read on / produced by Women's Health Information Mobile ... with assistance from Aidsline, the Health Promotion Service, Enfield Health Authority.
  • Great safer sex for grown-ups : if you thought that safer sex was boring, or dull, or not 'real' sex, read on / produced by Women's Health Information Mobile ... with assistance from Aidsline, the Health Promotion Service, Enfield Health Authority.
  • A woman holding a pink condom up sits in a shiny black rubber dress on the lap of a bare-chested man wearing chequered trousers; with the message: 'You thought rubber was so sexy,surely?"; an advertisement for safe sex by Stichting soa-bestrijding, Utrecht. Colour lithograph.
  • ECG trace showing unstable angina pectoris. This is the symptom of paroxysmal pain consequent to myocardial ischaemia, usually of distinctive character, location and radiation. It is thought to be provoked by a transient stressful situation during which the oxygen requirements of the myocardium exceed that supplied by the coronary circulation.
  • A Ugandan soldier of the National Resistance Army dressed in combat uniform holding a rifle; a thought-bubble containing a semi-naked woman appears to his left and a condom below, warning about the importance of safe-sex to prevent AIDS; an advertisement by the Public Health, NRA. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Orders, thought meete by Her Maiestie, and her privie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague ... Also, an advise set downe ... by the best learned in physicke ... contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines.
  • What the Princess (afterwards Queen) Victoria said to her governess. : "I see I am nearer the throne than I thought. Now, many a child would boast; but they don't know the difficulty. There is much splendour, but there is more responsibility." and the Princess gave me her hand, saying, "I will be good." Baroness Lehzen, the Queen's governess.
  • What the Princess (afterwards Queen) Victoria said to her governess. : "I see I am nearer the throne than I thought. Now, many a child would boast; but they don't know the difficulty. There is much splendour, but there is more responsibility." and the Princess gave me her hand, saying, "I will be good." Baroness Lehzen, the Queen's governess.
  • Hypericum olympicum L. Clusiaceae. Mount Olympus St John's wort. Deciduous perennial herb. Distribution Greece, Asia minor. This is not the plant used for mood disturbances in herbal medicine which is Hypericum perforatum. However, all the 370 species of Hypericum are called 'St John's Wort' so a potential for confusion exists. It shares some of the chemicals thought to be active in Hypericum perforatum. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Orders, thought meete by Her Maiestie, and her priuie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same. Also, an aduise set downe vpon Her Maiesties expresse commaundement, by the best learned in physicke within this realme, contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines. Without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswell for the preseruation of her good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordring of them after they shalbe infected.
  • Illicium anisatum L. Illiciaceae Japanese Star Anise. Distribution Japan. This was also called Illicium religiosum and the fruits are toxic. Effects of taking Illicium anisatum tea include epilepsy, vomiting, shakiness and rapid eye movements (US Food and Drug Administration report, 2003). Lindley (1838) and Bentley (1861) thought that I. anisatum was used in cooking, but they were describing the uses of I. verum which is used as a spice in Asia. Illicium anisatum syn. religiosum is 'used to make incense in Japanese and Chinese temples and was called Skimi by Kaempfer. This derives from the Japanese word 'shi-kimi'. The seed pods of both species contain shikimic acid (the name being derived from the Japanese) from which Tamiflu, the antiviral drug was synthesised. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A woman in a blue shirt with blond hair talks to a man in a green shirt who raises his finger to his mouth as if in thought with speech bubbles; a crowd of men and women stand around in the background discussing AIDS issues; an advertisement for the 'Jugend-Telefon für AIDS-Fragen' [an AIDS helpline for youths] by AIDS-Hilfe Zürich (Zürcher). Colour lithograph by Larry.
  • Yoruba Ibedji (effigies) representing dead twins, Nigeria, West Africa. Some Yoruba tribes revere twins, who are thought to bring luck to household and tribe. The death of one is a great calamity. A wooden figure, called Ibedji, is made to house the spirit of the dead child and be a companion for the surviving twin. The Ibedji figure becomes a cult-object in the family and the mother tends it, offers it food and decks it with beads, cowrie shells, red camwood and other adornments.
  • Certain necessary directions, as well for the cure of the plague, as for preventing the infection with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Majesties subjects / Set downe by the Colledge of Physicians by the Kings Majesties speciall command. With sundry orders thought meet by His Majestie, and his Privie Councell for prevention of the plague. Also certaine select statutes ... Together with His Majesties proclamation for further direction therein and a decree in Starre-Chamber. Concerning buildings and in-mates.
  • Thoughts on the plan for a Magdalen-House for repentant prostitutes / [Anon].