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  • Dr. Monro (physician to Bedlam) examining the straight jacketed and dishevelled Charles James Fox; representing the fall of the Coalition. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
  • Dr. Monro (physician to Bedlam) examining the straight jacketed and dishevelled Charles James Fox; representing the fall of the Coalition. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
  • Two world maps against a black background with the words 'Everywhere' and 'condom'; an advertisement for safe sex by Pierre Emm [Meunier] for ACT-UP, AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. Colour lithograph.
  • A black woman leaning on one hand with a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention and the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Stephanie Marlin.
  • A black woman leaning on one hand with a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention and the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Stephanie Marlin.
  • Lord North and Fox excreting into a pan bearing the Royal Arms, a little devil is mixing the stench between them; implying the appalling effects of the coalition government. Etching by J. Gillray, 1783.
  • A graph across a map of the world showing the growing pandemic and stalling response to the AIDS crisis between the years 1981 and 1993; advertisement by The Global AIDS Policy Coalition. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • A pink triangle against a black backdrop with the words 'Silence=Death' representing an advertisement for the Silence=Death Project used by permission by ACT-UP, The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power. Colour lithograph, 1987.
  • A black man whose shadow is reflected on a wall behind, with a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention and the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Michael Chambers.
  • A black man whose shadow is reflected on a wall behind, with a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention and the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Michael Chambers.
  • A fox ascends in a balloon, descends into a pit and walks off arm in arm with Lord North; representing Charles James Fox's coalition with Lord North under pressure from William Pitt the younger. Coloured etching, 1783.
  • Bald-headed figures walking in different directions, one wearing a crown (?) against the face of a clock representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day, December 1, 1993 by the Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development. Colour lithograph by Bami, 1993.
  • Compilation of newspaper cuttings including a banner held by two men with the slogan 'Aids Coalition To Unleash Power. ACT-UP'; an advertisement for the campaign Act Up Manchester in support of care for those with AIDS. Black and white photocopy with yellow.
  • Cistus incanus ssp creticus Juss. Cistaceae. Rock Rose. Distribution: Crete. Interesting symbiosis with fungus called Tuber melanosporum which increases nutrient absorption for the plant and inhibits growth of other plants in the vicinity. It is a source of the resin ‘labdanum’ (a.k.a. ‘ladanum’) used in perfumes (similar smell to ambergris), as is Cistus ladanifer. It has no medical uses now, and such use was dwindling even in the 18th century. In the 16th century (Henry Lyte’s 1575 translation of Rembert Dodoen’s Cruydeboeck of 1554) its uses were described (directly copied from Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (70AD)) as: ‘Ladanum dronketh with olde wine, stoppeth the laske [periods], and provoketh urine. It is very good against the hardness of the matrix or mother [uterus] layde to in the manner of a pessarie, and it draweth down the secondes or afterbirth, when it is layde upon quicke coles [hot coals], and the fumigation or parfume thereof be received up into the body of women. // The same applied to the head with Myrrhe and oyle of Myrrhe, cureth the scurffe, called Alopecia, and keepeth the heare [hair] from falling of [sic], but whereas it is already fallen away, it will not cause the heare to growe agayne. // ...' and goes on in this vein about its uses for pain in the ears, and removing sores and scars and other things. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Collier and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Engineering: a patent furnace with continuous solid-fuel feed. Coloured lithograph.
  • A call for combined penicillin/streptomycin injection...is a call for Crystamycin.
  • A call for combined penicillin/streptomycin injection...is a call for Crystamycin.
  • A black man in blue shorts stands chained at the feet and hands, representing a black person without understanding of AIDS as a slave to ignorance. Colour lithograph by Deborah Riley for the South Carolina AIDS Education Network.
  • Maconochie ready for service dinner : M.&V. ration.
  • A two-bar electric fire with the upper bar crossed out and only the lower bar switched on, to save power. Colour lithograph.
  • A two-bar electric fire with the upper bar crossed out and only the lower bar switched on, to save power. Colour lithograph.
  • The Cotton Famine, Manchester, 19th century.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: nurses in a ward. Photograph, c.1908.
  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: nurses in a ward. Photograph, c.1908.
  • The physical and moral condition of the chil
  • Levante las defensas : Micoseptil, estimulante de las defensas orgánicas / Laboratorios Vieta-Plasencia, S.A.
  • Levante las defensas : Micoseptil, estimulante de las defensas orgánicas / Laboratorios Vieta-Plasencia, S.A.
  • A London hair-dresser's shop: a barber shaves a man; a young woman who is having her hair cut recognizes another customer; and a man who rents the upper part reads the Sunday newspaper. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • Eight different species of fish, including cod, haddock, halibut and mackerel, are lying on a beach. Coloured etching by J. Miller after J. Stewart.