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  • If you hate needles you'll love emla.
  • Cover of exhibition catalogue 'Needles in Medical History'
  • Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (5)
  • Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (1)
  • Nano-needles shuttling the blood brain barrier, TEM
  • Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (3)
  • Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (2)
  • Surgical instruments, including cauterising needles. Drawing with watercolour.
  • Set of acupuncture needles with a bamboo case.
  • An Arabic man dressed in a white cloak and red headpiece holding a scroll banner showing the male and female signs, a needle about to inject into an arm, a man having a blood transmission and a fetus within the womb of a pregnant woman; an advertisement about the dangers of drugs and transmission of AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1991.
  • The nine ancient acupuncture needles, 17th Chinese (detail)
  • The nine ancient acupuncture needles, 17th Chinese (detail)
  • The nine ancient acupuncture needles, 17th Chinese (detail)
  • Manufacture of needles. Etching by Mutlow after J. Farey.
  • Brain astrocyte cell taking up carbon nano-needles, SEM
  • Brain astrocyte cell taking up carbon nano-needles, SEM.
  • Surgical instruments, mainly spatulas and needles. Drawing with watercolour.
  • The manufacture of Magdalenian bone needles. Showing the bone from which splinters have been taken, gravers, hone, toothed tool for rounding splinters, and finished needles.
  • Manufacture of needles. Wood engraving by D. Lancelot after Piaud.
  • Surgical instruments, mainly cauterising needles and irons. Drawing with watercolour.
  • Surgical instruments, mainly needles and knives. Engraving by E. Mitchell.
  • The needle of a syringe pointing to a swirling circle of the repeated words in Galician 'Cambiamos chutas usadas por chutas nouas' with the end of a syringe disappearing to the right; a message to drug users to exchange used syringes for new syringes to prevent AIDS; an advertisement by the Comité Cidadán Galego Anti-SIDA. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A couple sit up in bed looking around at numerous other couples making love in rows of beds; with smaller vignettes showing someone receiving a drug injection, a needle piercing an arm and a range of condoms; one of a series of 4 AIDS education posters by the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Thailand. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Cataract set: needles and forceps in a case, used by Lister.
  • Surgical instruments, including lancets, needles and scissors. Engraving with etching, 1771.
  • Surgical instruments, including a tourniquet, couching needles and amputating knives. Engraving.
  • A green neon-lit pharmacy shop sign on the corner of a street with a message in French: 'There are places for protection on every street corner'; with a sterile needle and a condom advertising pharmacies as the first port of call for protection against AIDS; an advertisement by the Ministére du Travail et des Affaires Sociales, L'Assurance Maladie Sécurité Sociale, Ordre National des Pharmacies and CFES. Colour lithograph.
  • Surgical instruments, including needles and scalpels. Engraving with etching by George Bickham.
  • Surgical instruments, including needles and scalpels. Engraving with etching by George Bickham.
  • 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.