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  • Guy's Hospital gazette. Special number, In commemoration of the bicentenary of the hospital & the centenary of the medical school, 1725-1925 / editor: Leslie George Housden ; sub-editor: Gordon Gould Cameron.
  • Brillantaisia ulugurica Lindau, Acanthaceae. Giant salvia. Tropical herbaceous plant. Distribution: Tropical Africa. Brillantaisia patula is used by the Yoruba in south Nigeria for small-pox medication, the roots being mixed with Bahia nitida and Marantolchloa leucantha, Piper guineense and snails. This is made into a soup and the snail piece eaten to protect against smallpox for a year (Neuwinger, 1994) which doubtless was effective after the global eradication of smallpox in 1979. Brillantaisia nitens is used in the Cameroons to treat cardiovascular disorders. Phytochemical screening of Brillantaisia species have shown antibacterial action, vascular smooth muscle relaxant properties. Kew reports their use as soap
  • Treating children with diarrhoea in Djibouti. Colour lithograph by Giacomo Pirozzi for Unicef Djibouti, ca. 2000.
  • Nigerian porters carrying gun parts across the Benue river in a British expedition to suppress slavery. Wood engraving after Morgan, 1894.
  • Hospital for African trypanosomiasis
  • The American Red Cross HIV/AIDS program
  • American Red Cross HIV/AIDS program
  • Recto: a graphic black figure with two faces incorporating a head as a chest pointing to a board displaying symbols; an illustration to a Cameroonian proverb; second of six posters advertising the American Red Cross HIV/AIDS program. Colour lithograph by Damballah Dolphus Smith,1992.
  • Recto: a graphic black figure with two faces incorporating a head as a chest pointing to a board displaying symbols; an illustration to a Cameroonian proverb; second of six posters advertising the American Red Cross HIV/AIDS program. Colour lithograph by Damballah Dolphus Smith,1992.
  • Effervescent Universal Saline.
  • Chumah, David Livingstone's personal servant, seated on a wooden stool, holding his cap in his hand. Wood engraving.
  • On the mode of communication of cholera / by John Snow.
  • On the mode of communication of cholera / by John Snow.
  • Radium.
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  • Fry's pure concentrated soluble cocoa : prepared by a special scientific process, securing extreme solubility, and developing the finest flavour of the cocoa / J.S. Fry & Sons.
  • Fry's pure concentrated soluble cocoa : prepared by a special scientific process, securing extreme solubility, and developing the finest flavour of the cocoa / J.S. Fry & Sons.
  • Chumah and Susah, David Livingstone's servants. Wood engraving.
  • The collected papers of Joseph, Baron Lister.
  • The collected papers of Joseph, Baron Lister.
  • The collected papers of Joseph, Baron Lister.
  • The collected papers of Joseph, Baron Lister.
  • Fry's milk chocolate : sweeter than honey : 300 gold medals & diplomas awarded to the firm.
  • Fry's milk chocolate : sweeter than honey : 300 gold medals & diplomas awarded to the firm.
  • A surgical operation to remove a malignant tumour from a man's left breast and armpit in a Dublin drawing room, 1817. Watercolour, ca 1913, after a watercolour, 1817.