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  • China: protection against nuclear, chemical and germ warfare. Colour lithographs, 1971.
  • China: protection against nuclear, chemical and germ warfare. Colour lithographs, 1971.
  • China: protection against nuclear, chemical and germ warfare. Colour lithographs, 1971.
  • China: protection against nuclear, chemical and germ warfare. Colour lithographs, 1971.
  • China: protection against nuclear, chemical and germ warfare. Colour lithographs, 1971.
  • China: protection against nuclear, chemical and germ warfare. Colour lithographs, 1971.
  • China: protection against nuclear, chemical and germ warfare. Colour lithographs, 1971.
  • China: protection against nuclear, chemical and germ warfare. Colour lithographs, 1971.
  • Three Tibetan anatomical figures. Watercolour, 1904.
  • Three Tibetan anatomical figures. Watercolour, 1904.
  • A pink background bearing the white lettering: "Discutez de la prévention du SIDA avec votre médecin." [Discuss AIDS prevention with your doctor]; an advertisement by the Swiss Physicians [FMH] and Swiss Federal Office of Public Health [OFSP]. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman holding a pitcher. Watercolour.
  • A woman pulling giant aubergines from a tree. Watercolour.
  • Wellcome Tibetan 69, folio 126 recto.
  • Vitex agnus-castus var. latifolia
  • Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Final-month month snow water
  • Brugmansia suaveolens 'Pink Beauty'
  • Brugmansia suaveolens'Pink Beauty'
  • A family are shelling peas in a barn with old barrels in it. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1760, after J.B. Greuze.
  • A family are shelling peas in a barn with old barrels in it. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1760, after J.B. Greuze.
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Bezoars, etc.
  • Papaver rhoeas L. Papaveraceae Corn Poppy, Flanders Poppy. Distribution: Temperate Old World. Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959) recommended five or six seed heads in wine to get a good night's sleep the leaves and seeds applied as a poultice to heal inflammation, and the decoction sprinkled on was soporiferous. Culpeper (1650) ' ... Syrup of Red, or Erratick Poppies: by many called Corn-Roses. ... Some are of the opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other - believe them that list [wishes to]: I know no danger in this syrup, so it be taken in moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts
  • John Heaviside. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1803, after J. Zoffany.
  • Papaver rhoeas L. Papaveraceae Corn Poppy, Flanders Poppy. Distribution: Temperate Old World. Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959) recommended five or six seed heads in wine to get a good night's sleep the leave and seeds applied as a poultice to heal inflammation, and the decoction sprinkled on was soporiferous. Culpeper (1650) ' ... Syrup of Red, or Erratick Poppies: by many called Corn-Roses. ... Some are of the opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other - believe them that list [who wish to]: I know no danger in this syrup, so it be taken in moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.