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  • Ram with severely damaged penis
  • Outer hair cells damaged by kanamycin
  • SEM cochlea damaged by bacterial meningitis
  • Outer hair cells damaged by kanamycin
  • Outer hair cells damaged by kanamycin
  • Succisia pratensis Greene Asteraceae. Devil’s Bit Scabious, Blue Buttons. Distribution: Europe, W Asia, Africa. Culpeper (1650), under ‘Herbs’ he writes: ‘Succisa, Morsus diobolo, Devil’s Bit. Inwardly taken it easeth the fits of the mother [probably uterine spasm or pain], and breaks wind, taketh away the swellings in the mouth, and slimy phlegm that sticks to the jaws, neither is there a more present remedy in the world, for those cold swellings of the neck, which the vulgar call the Almonds [lymph nodes] of the neck than this herb bruised and applied to them. Folk lore attribute it as a cure-all which was so successful that the Devil bit off the bottom of the roots when he saw it growing down into Hades. However, the roots show no sign of such damage to support the myth. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM
  • Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM
  • Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM
  • Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM
  • Image of a Neolithic grave, damaged, Czechoslovakia.
  • Intercostal muscles of the rib cage damaged by empyema
  • Intercostal muscles of the rib cage damaged by empyema
  • Hair cells in the cochlea damaged by old age
  • Hair cells in the cochlea damaged by old age
  • Hair cells in the cochlea damaged by old age
  • Hair cells in the cochlea damaged by old age
  • Hair cells in the cochlea damaged by old age
  • St Charles Hospital, London: building damaged by bomb. Photograph, 1940.
  • A chin damaged by a shell: x-ray. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Rescue of people from damaged buildings in civil defence. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • X-ray of a pair of hands with damaged fingers. Photograph, ca. 1915.
  • Transport of injured people from damaged buildings in civil defence. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • Remember... : open the packet carefully to avoid damaging the condom ... / RS Health.
  • Remember... : open the packet carefully to avoid damaging the condom ... / RS Health.
  • Rescue of people from buildings damaged by explosion in civil defence. Colour lithograph, ca. 1984.
  • The Spinario: an athlete examining his damaged foot. Line engraving by F. Piranesi after L. Corazzari.
  • World War One: soldiers escorting wounded men from a war damaged building. Photogravure, 1916, after F. Matania.
  • A man following plastic surgery to his nose, damaged by hypertrophic acne, in profile. Photograph by Félix Méheux, ca. 1900.
  • The swollen legs and the damaged feet of a woman with disease diagnosed as syphilis. Watercolour by C. D'Alton, 1868.