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  • A personified condom with a large speech bubble containing text, interpersed with hearts, based on the idea that 'love' is the answer to combating the scourge of AIDS; surrounded by blue graphic symbols including a serpent, two eyes and a snake; an advertisement for an exhibition of images about the fight against AIDS by Artis. Colour lithograph by Robert Combas, 1993.
  • A woman lies back on a sofa holding a telephone as a man leans over with thoughts of condoms and lubricant looming in a speech bubble overhead; another woman sits on her knees in the centre exclaiming 'AIDS?' while a couple sit on the end, dreaming of pregnancy; an advertisement for safe sex and AIDS prevention by the Center for Youth Sexual Health and Contraception. Colour lithograph by Eulàlia Sayrach, 1993.
  • A comparative advertisement for the benefits of Stimorol chewing gum and condoms featuring a figure standing far left blowing a bubble with one foot resting against the picture border; he looks out at a landscape featuring an eye, a lake, a volcano spurting out hearts with two people running towards each other, and a pair of lips; with a packet of 'stimorol' chewing gum next to a condom in the sky. Colour lithograph.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae. Goatsbeard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae Goats beard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae. Goatsbeard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The South Sea Scheme: speculators ruined by the collapse of the South Sea Company. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1721.
  • Labelling tape, LM
  • Robert Knight, Cashier of the South Sea Company, stands in a boat surrounded by horses, people and small devils. Engraving.
  • Papanicolaou stained smear of a clival chordoma, microscopy. Chordomas are cancers formed of cells which resemble those of the notochord (spine) of a developing foetus. Although they can present anywhere within the spine and skull, the majority grow in the sacral region of the spine, corresponding to the lower back. This image shows a Papanicolaou (Pap) stained smear obtained from a needle biopsy of a chordoma in the clivus, a part of the cranium at the base of the skull.
  • Papanicolaou stained smear of a C2 vertebral chordomal mass, microscopy. Chordomas are cancers formed of cells which resemble those of the notochord (spine) of a developing foetus. Although they can present anywhere within the spine and skull, the majority grow in the sacral region of the spine, corresponding to the lower back. This image shows a Papanicolaou (pap) stained smear obtained from a needle biopsy of a chordoma of the C2 vertebrae, located at the top of the neck just underneath the base of the skull.
  • Thomas Hudson, an unfortunate man. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • MGG stained smear of a C2 vertebral chordomal mass
  • Myxoid liposarcoma, microscopy
  • Radiograph: low fixer level producing a fluid line
  • AIDS helpline for youths
  • The dance of death. Etching by R. Dagley, 182-.
  • AIDS prevention advertisement
  • The Triple Burner (san jiao), Chinese woodcut, 1817
  • A monkey in human dress is leaning on a stone which a satyr is engraving into. Etching by T. Landseer, 1827.
  • Pravaz syringe
  • Two men kissing; advertisement for an exhibition about New
  • A doctor, a couple and a man flexing his muscles with a question mark as a shadow; an AIDS awareness advertisement for the Program on AIDS by the Thai Red Cross Society. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Alzheimers disease
  • Ad by AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong
  • AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong.
  • Sir John Fielding wearing a blindfold sits in a chair holding instruments of justice before Madam Cornelys on the shoulders of a lawyer and the Duchess of Northumberland. Engraving, 1771.
  • A room of Quakers gossiping about the marriage of William Allen to Mrs. Grizell Birkbeck, seen on the left, affirming their vows. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, 1827.
  • A room of Quakers gossiping about the marriage of William Allen to Mrs. Grizell Birkbeck, seen on the left, affirming their vows. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, 1827.
  • Interstitial emphysema