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  • A nurse or midwife reading a thermometer and wiping it after use with cotton wool. Lithograph.
  • "Asepta" absorbent cotton for surgical, medical and hygienic uses. Colour lithograph by Henry Le Monnier, 1928.
  • A woman is working at large rollers winding cotton onto reels. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • Angola: a Kwanyama woman performing an enema on a small child: with the child placed across her lap the woman prepares a tube. Photograph by Antoinette Powell-Cotton, 1936/1937.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a woman (nurse?) with bowls and cotton wool etc. on a sideboard. Photograph.
  • Tree cotton (Gossypium arboreum): flowering and fruiting stem with caterpillar. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807, after M. Merian.
  • Towns, cotton plant, bird and rock formations of Persia, in separate plates. Line engraving after C. de Bruins, c.1704.
  • Doll, spirit figure, in Ivory, Eskimo. Finely carved facial features. Head perforated through ears, and cotton threaded to represent hair.
  • Textiles: two women, in ancient (Middle Eastern?) costume, spinning cotton with distaffs under their arms. Photolithograph after a drawing by F. M. P.
  • Kapok or silk cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) growing by a village in Surinam. Coloured lithograph by P. Lauters, c. 1839, after P. J. Benoit.
  • Three women sit and spin wool and cotton as another stirs a pot on the fire and a child warms his hands. Stipple engraving.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven version of Crompton's mule inside an iron-framed spinning shed, workers setting machines and clearing cotton waste, etc. Engraving by J. W. Lowry, 1834, after T. Allom.
  • Women are working at large cotton machines, a child is carrying a basket on his head, and other people are sitting on benches at the side of the room. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • Flix 100% cotton T-shirt : when you buy any 2 packs of Flix 100 tablets or Flix granular 40g. : the low calorie sweetener with 100% NutraSweet... offer closes 30 August 1992 / promoter: Searle.
  • Flix 100% cotton T-shirt : when you buy any 2 packs of Flix 100 tablets or Flix granular 40g. : the low calorie sweetener with 100% NutraSweet... offer closes 30 August 1992 / promoter: Searle.
  • A woman is sitting by the window making lace on a pillow while another woman sits by a spinning wheel watching a kitten play with a reel of cotton; a man holds a swift or skein winder. Engraving by W. French after F.J. Luckx.
  • Stachys byzantina K.Koch also known as Stachys lanata. Lamiaceae. Lamb's Ears. Distribution: Europe. Its woolly leaves were regarded as a vulnery, to stop bleeding, which it would have done in a manner similar to cotton-wool, allowing platelets to clot on its hairs. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Hospital for the Insane, Coton-Hill, Stafford: bird's eye view. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1854, after B. Sly after Fulljames and Waller.
  • Hospital for the Insane, Coton-Hill, Stafford: bird's eye view. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1854, after B. Sly after Fulljames and Waller.
  • Origanum dictamnus L. Lamiaceae Dittany of Crete, Hop marjoram. Distribution: Crete. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘... hastens travail [labour] in women, provokes the Terms [menstruation] . See the Leaves.’ Under 'Leaves' he writes: ‘Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, ... brings away dead children, hastens womens travail, brings away the afterbirth, the very smell of it drives away venomous beasts, so deadly an enemy is it to poison, it’s an admirable remedy against wounds and Gunshot, wounds made with poisoned weapons, draws out splinters, broken bones etc. They say the goats and deers in Creet, being wounded with arrows, eat this herb, which makes the arrows fall out of themselves.' Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (c. 100 AD, trans. Beck, 2005), Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants all have this information, as does Vergil’s Aeneid where he recounts how Venus produced it when her son, Aeneas, had received a deadly wound from an arrow, which fell out on its own when the wound was washed with it (Jashemski, 1999). Dioscorides attributes the same property to ‘Tragium’ or ‘Tragion’ which is probably Hypericum hircinum (a St. John’s Wort): ‘Tragium grows in Crete only ... the leaves and the seed and the tear, being laid on with wine doe draw out arrow heads and splinteres and all things fastened within ... They say also that ye wild goats having been shot, and then feeding upon this herb doe cast out ye arrows.’ . It has hairy leaves, in common with many 'vulnaries', and its alleged ability to heal probably has its origin in the ability of platelets to coagulate more easily on the hairs (in the same way that cotton wool is applied to a shaving cut to hasten clotting). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Streptococci gordonii biofilm grown on a dental restorative; imaged by scanning electron microscopy.
  • Textiles: a large fabric printing machine, section. Engraving.
  • Textiles: men working at large fabric printing machines. Engraving.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven version of Crompton's mule. Engraving, c.1858.
  • Textiles: a belt-driven version of Crompton's mule. Engraving, c.1858.
  • Textiles: a weaving loom (above), with two shuttles and the upper frame (below). Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Textiles: weaving. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Calico printing.
  • Textiles: weaving. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Mule spinning