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  • Turkish prisoners from Cyprus being transported to Turkey, on board a ship with a guard watching them from the rail. Wood engraving, 1878.
  • Bursa, Turkey: bath of Suleiman the Magnificent (Yeni Kaplıca), with men sitting around the sides of a circular pool in the domed building. Photograph.
  • Antioch, Turkey: remains of the old walls of the city, following the slope of a mountain. Engraving by J.B. Liénard after L.F. Cassas.
  • Antioch, Turkey: remains of an ancient gate on a road leading through a mountain pass to Aleppo. Engraving by M. Picquenot after L.F. Cassas.
  • A journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 / By J.C. Hobhouse.
  • A journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 / By J.C. Hobhouse.
  • A journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 / By J.C. Hobhouse.
  • A journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 / By J.C. Hobhouse.
  • The Hippodrome, Istanbul, Turkey: the obelisk of Theodosius (right) , the Serpent Column (centre), and the column of Constantine Porphyrgenitus (left). Photograph by Guillaume Berggren, ca. 1880.
  • Celery with cheesy walnut sauce : ideal as an accompaniment to cold turkey and ham : se reverse for recipe : simple supper in seconds / Tesco.
  • Celery with cheesy walnut sauce : ideal as an accompaniment to cold turkey and ham : se reverse for recipe : simple supper in seconds / Tesco.
  • The tomb of Sultan Mehmed I in his mausoleum (the Green tomb) at Brusa, Turkey. Engraving by G. Presbury after W.H. Leitch after T. Allom, ca. 1836.
  • Report on the formation and general management of Renkioi Hospital, on the Dardanelles, Turkey / addressed to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for War, by E.A. Parkes.
  • Report on the formation and general management of Renkioi Hospital, on the Dardanelles, Turkey / addressed to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for War, by E.A. Parkes.
  • Report on the formation and general management of Renkioi Hospital, on the Dardanelles, Turkey / addressed to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for War, by E.A. Parkes.
  • A monk, praying by a brick wall, turns into a turkey; above, a modest nun with a purple veil, with whom he is in love. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A monk, praying by a brick wall, turns into a turkey; above, a modest nun with a purple veil, with whom he is in love. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • Above, a sprig and flowers of a lobelia, two grosbeaks with a nest, an earthworm, a madrepore , a manis, and a madrepore (perforated coral); below, a beetle, a mantis, a spanish fly, a turkey, a jellyfish (medusa), and a bulbuos plant. Engraving by Heath.
  • Four men whose distorted shadows are cast on the wall:a an apothecary casting the shadow of a clyster, a censor casting the shadow of a devil, a hereditary peer casting the shadow of a pig, and a Jesuit casting the shadow of a turkey. Coloured lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.
  • Euphorbia nicaeensis All. Euphorbiaceae. Distribution: North Africa, Southern Europe to Turkey. Root extracts have been shown to have cytotoxic and anti-inflammatory action in experimental situations. Euphorbia species all have toxic sap, and had many names in early literature, eg esula, about which Culpeper (1650) says that '(taken inwardly) are too violent for vulgar use
  • Anemone blanda Schott & Kotschy, Ranunculaceae. Grecian windflower. Genus name may derive from Greek for wind, blanda being Latin for mild or pleasing. Perennial tuberous herb. Distribution SE Europe, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria. Not described until 1854 so no early herbal records under this name. However all species of Ranunculaceae are poisonous, containing protoanemonin, which causes blistering if sap gets on the skin and indigestion if ingested. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Danae racemosa (L.) Moench Asparagaceae. Alexandrian or Poet's laurel. Distribution: Turkey to Iran. A monotypic genus with supreme adaptation to dry conditions, bearing its flowers and fruits on phylloclades, leaf like expanded stems. The phylloclades are too thick for sunlight to pass through so have chlorophyll containing cells on both sides (the cells in the middle do not) and stomata on both sides to facilitate CO2 diffusion into the plant. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Acanthus spinosus L. Acanthaceae. Bears breeches. Distribution: Southern Europe to Western Turkey. Herbaceous perennial flowering plant. Named for spiny leaves. Dioscorides recommended the roots applied for inflammation and spasms, and -when drunk- to promote urine, check diarrhoea, and for phthysis, ruptures and convulsions. The leaves are the model for those at the top of Corinthian columns. Tetraglycosides isolated from the plant show cytotoxicity in sea urchin eggs and crown gall tumour on potato disks. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Acanthus dioscoridis L. Acanthaceae. Distribution: Iran, Iraq, southern Turkey. Herbaceous perennial flowering plant. Named for Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, 1st century Greek physician and herbalist whose book, De Materia Medica, was the main source of herbal medicinal information for the next 1,600 years. He describes some 500 plants and their medicinal properties. His manuscript was copied and annotated over the centuries, and the earliest Greek text in existence is the illustrated Juliana Anicia Codex dated 512CE (Beck, 2005). The first English translation was made around 1650 by John Goodyear and published by Robert T. Gunther in 1934
  • Istanbul: people standing by tombs in a Turkish burial ground; the city in the background. Watercolour by M. O'Reilly, 1854.
  • Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul: the gateway of the Sultan. Photograph by Guillaume Berggren, ca. 1880.
  • Mausoleum of the sultans Mahmud II and Abdulaziz, Istanbul; a man kneels in front of the two decorative tombs. Photograph by Abdullah Frères, ca. 1900.
  • A Red Crescent nurse is sitting on a chair, holding the crutches of a patient who is saluting her. Colour process print, 19--.
  • A man in Ottoman traditional costume. Photograph (by Pascal Sébah ?), ca. 1870.
  • A block of text containing a definition of the AIDS disease partially hiding the word 'AIDS' representing an anti-AIDS advertisement by the AIDS Savşim Dernegi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.