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  • A naked man holds a condom up hiding the genital area of a man standing with his pants down and his hands on his waist with a speech bubble containing the message "wrap up or clear off!"; an advertisement for safe sex by the Projectgroep Publiekscampagne AIDS/SOA. Colour lithograph.
  • The side profile of the face of Brian, a black man with speech bubbles containing a conversation with Radjin about how quick it is to put on condoms; advertisement for safe sex by the N.I.A.D. (Nederlands Instituut voor Alcohol en Drugs). Colour lithograph by Laren, Tadberg Design.
  • The side profile of the face of Brian, a black man with speech bubbles containing a conversation with Radjin about how quick it is to put on condoms; advertisement for safe sex by the N.I.A.D. (Nederlands Instituut voor Alcohol en Drugs). Colour lithograph by Laren, Tadberg Design.
  • A personified condom holding a pole from which a condom hangs above a green manacled long-tailed creature; with a speech bubble containing the words in French: "With me, there's no lizard"; safe sex advertisement by the CISIH and C.H.U. (Hôpiteaux de Bordeaux). Colour lithograph by Raphaël, 1994.
  • A personified condom holding a pole from which a condom hangs above a green manacled long-tailed creature; with a speech bubble containing the words in French: "With me, there's no lizard"; safe sex advertisement by the CISIH and C.H.U. (Hôpitaux de Bordeaux). Colour lithograph by Raphaël, 1994.
  • A teddy bear with a speech bubble above containing the words in German: 'My best friend is soon to be seven and has AIDS. Please help us'; an appeal for donations to help children with AIDS by the Kinder-AIDS-Hilfe Deutschland e.V. [KAH] Colour lithograph by Christian Schuster and HDM Eggert.
  • A red heart broken in two with two speech bubbles: "l'amour?" and "Parlons-en!" with scattered fragments of random images below including a mouth and a man holding a gun; a reminder for the young to talk about love [to prevent the spread of AIDS] by the Office Municipal de la Jeunesse Aubervilliers. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • A personified condom with a large speech bubble containing text, interpersed with hearts, based on the idea that 'love' is the answer to combating the scourge of AIDS; surrounded by blue graphic symbols including a serpent, two eyes and a snake; an advertisement for an exhibition of images about the fight against AIDS by Artis. Colour lithograph by Robert Combas, 1993.
  • A woman in a blue shirt with blond hair talks to a man in a green shirt who raises his finger to his mouth as if in thought with speech bubbles; a crowd of men and women stand around in the background discussing AIDS issues; an advertisement for the 'Jugend-Telefon für AIDS-Fragen' [an AIDS helpline for youths] by AIDS-Hilfe Zürich (Zürcher). Colour lithograph by Larry.
  • A woman lies back on a sofa holding a telephone as a man leans over with thoughts of condoms and lubricant looming in a speech bubble overhead; another woman sits on her knees in the centre exclaiming 'AIDS?' while a couple sit on the end, dreaming of pregnancy; an advertisement for safe sex and AIDS prevention by the Center for Youth Sexual Health and Contraception. Colour lithograph by Eulàlia Sayrach, 1993.
  • [Leaflet with the speeches of Chang Woo Gow and Chung Mow as delievered at the Egyyptian Hall, London, on Monday 25 September 1865].
  • Two performing itinerant medicine vendors in costume on a horse drawn carriage rehersing their speeches on a country lane as a young woman walks past. Coloured etching.
  • Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Paeonia officinalis L. Paeoniaceae, European Peony, Distribution: Europe. The peony commemorates Paeon, physician to the Gods of ancient Greece (Homer’s Iliad v. 401 and 899, circa 800 BC). Paeon, came to be associated as being Apollo, Greek god of healing, poetry, the sun and much else, and father of Aesculapius/Asclepias. Theophrastus (circa 300 BC), repeated by Pliny, wrote that if a woodpecker saw one collecting peony seed during the day, it would peck out one’s eyes, and (like mandrake) the roots had to be pulled up at night by tying them to the tail of a dog, and one’s ‘fundament might fall out’ [anal prolapse] if one cut the roots with a knife. Theophrastus commented ‘all this, however, I take to be so much fiction, most frivolously invented to puff up their supposed marvellous properties’. Dioscorides (70 AD, tr. Beck, 2003) wrote that 15 of its black seeds, drunk with wine, were good for nightmares, uterine suffocation and uterine pains. Officinalis indicates it was used in the offices, ie the clinics, of the monks in the medieval era. The roots, hung round the neck, were regarded as a cure for epilepsy for nearly two thousand years, and while Galen would have used P. officinalis, Parkinson (1640) recommends the male peony (P. mascula) for this. He also recommends drinking a decoction of the roots. Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal (1737), published by the College of Physicians, explains that it was used to cure febrile fits in children, associated with teething. Although she does not mention it, these stop whatever one does. Parkinson also reports that the seeds are used for snake bite, uterine bleeding, people who have lost the power of speech, nightmares and melancholy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Die Störungen der Sprache : Versuch einer Pathologie der Sprache / von Adolf Kussmaul.
  • Alphabeti verè naturalis Hebraici brevissima delineatio. Quae simul methodum suppeditat, juxta quam qui surdi nati sunt sic informari possunt, ut non alios saltem loquentes intelligant, sed et ipsi ad sermonis usum perveniant / In lucem edita à F.M.B. ab Helmont.
  • Alphabeti verè naturalis Hebraici brevissima delineatio. Quae simul methodum suppeditat, juxta quam qui surdi nati sunt sic informari possunt, ut non alios saltem loquentes intelligant, sed et ipsi ad sermonis usum perveniant / In lucem edita à F.M.B. ab Helmont.
  • Alphabeti verè naturalis Hebraici brevissima delineatio. Quae simul methodum suppeditat, juxta quam qui surdi nati sunt sic informari possunt, ut non alios saltem loquentes intelligant, sed et ipsi ad sermonis usum perveniant / In lucem edita à F.M.B. ab Helmont.
  • Alphabeti verè naturalis Hebraici brevissima delineatio. Quae simul methodum suppeditat, juxta quam qui surdi nati sunt sic informari possunt, ut non alios saltem loquentes intelligant, sed et ipsi ad sermonis usum perveniant / In lucem edita à F.M.B. ab Helmont.
  • Physiologie de la voix et de la parole / par Édouard Fournié.
  • Moses speaks to his people in the land of the Moab, in the fortieth year of Exodus. Etching by C. Mosley, 1747, after A. Cheron.
  • The Baynes lectures / for further information concerning these lectures and for terms, dates, etc. please address Miss Elizabeth F. Bennett, Meriden N.H.
  • The Baynes lectures / for further information concerning these lectures and for terms, dates, etc. please address Miss Elizabeth F. Bennett, Meriden N.H.
  • The Baynes lectures / for further information concerning these lectures and for terms, dates, etc. please address Miss Elizabeth F. Bennett, Meriden N.H.
  • The Baynes lectures / for further information concerning these lectures and for terms, dates, etc. please address Miss Elizabeth F. Bennett, Meriden N.H.
  • John the Baptist preaches in the wilderness. Etching by J. Goupy after S. Rosa.
  • A woman refusing to get into a cab believing she will catch smallpox, the driver humorously reassures her. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1863.
  • A Jewish man with a lisp trying to disclaim his religion. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1883.
  • A woman with two serpents holding her finger to her lips; representing prudence. Etching, 16--.
  • A young homoeopathic doctor converses with his patient. Coloured photolithograph.