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  • A beggar wearing a placard around his neck checks the contents of his collecting tin while a beggar with two amputated feet moves past with the aid of two crutches and stumps. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • A naked woman carrying a basket in her left hand kneels on her left knee, takes a cloth out of the basket, rises and moves the basket to her right hand as she walks away. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A gang of hunters pretend to wash their eyes with a slimy substance, thus fooling the monkeys, who 'ape' them and blind themselves, allowing the hunters to move in. Line engraving by J. Collaert after J. van der Straet, c. 1610.
  • A man in leopard-skin trousers holds up a condom as he moves towards a blonde-haired woman wearing a fur trimmed satin vest with the message: 'Briefs out, jacket on"; an advertisement for safe sex by Stichting soa-bestrijding, Utrecht. Colour lithograph.
  • A horse leans against a house wall, trapping its rider and refusing to move; a woman at the open window raises a sweeping brush to poke the horse and two ragged boys in the street threaten it with a stick and a spanner (?). Coloured lithograph by A. Strassgschwandtner after himself, ca. 1860.
  • Illicium anisatum L. Illiciaceae Japanese Star Anise. Distribution Japan. This was also called Illicium religiosum and the fruits are toxic. Effects of taking Illicium anisatum tea include epilepsy, vomiting, shakiness and rapid eye movements (US Food and Drug Administration report, 2003). Lindley (1838) and Bentley (1861) thought that I. anisatum was used in cooking, but they were describing the uses of I. verum which is used as a spice in Asia. Illicium anisatum syn. religiosum is 'used to make incense in Japanese and Chinese temples and was called Skimi by Kaempfer. This derives from the Japanese word 'shi-kimi'. The seed pods of both species contain shikimic acid (the name being derived from the Japanese) from which Tamiflu, the antiviral drug was synthesised. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Proximity campaign briefing : in the report of the 2003 Gay Men's Sex Survey On the move, 49.8% of men overall responded that they knew no-one living with HIV. When examined by age demographic, 80.9% of those under 20 years of age claimed not to know anyone with HIV / CHAPS, Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Proximity campaign briefing : in the report of the 2003 Gay Men's Sex Survey On the move, 49.8% of men overall responded that they knew no-one living with HIV. When examined by age demographic, 80.9% of those under 20 years of age claimed not to know anyone with HIV / CHAPS, Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Proximity campaign briefing : in the report of the 2003 Gay Men's Sex Survey On the move, 49.8% of men overall responded that they knew no-one living with HIV. When examined by age demographic, 80.9% of those under 20 years of age claimed not to know anyone with HIV / CHAPS, Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Human chromosomes in metaphase. The chromatin is stained red and the "glue" that holds the two chromatids together is highlighted in yellow. This glue is a proteinaceous complex called cohesin. Once all the chromosomes are attached to the spindle, the cohesin complex breaks down, allowing the two chromatids to separate and move to opposite poles of the cell.
  • Proximity campaign briefing : in the report of the 2003 Gay Men's Sex Survey On the move, 49.8% of men overall responded that they knew no-one living with HIV. When examined by age demographic, 80.9% of those under 20 years of age claimed not to know anyone with HIV / CHAPS, Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Human cells showing the stages of cell division starting with interphase second from the left on the top. Progressing anticlockwise the stages shown are: early prophase (centrosome not yet separated), late prophase (centrosome separated and DNA condensation), prometaphase (incomplete chromosome attachment), metaphase (chromosomes all attached and aligned), anaphase (chromosome separation), telophase (formation of midbody and cells begin to flatten), early cytokinesis (chromosomes decondensed and nuclear envelope reformed) and late cytokinesis (cells move apart).
  • Nepal; foot transport in the Khumbu, 1986. A young Sherpa takes a 'breather' by resting his load on a walking staff. Sherpas carry enormously heavy loads on their backs and many of the raw materials and goods which move through the Khumbu are transported in this way. The tree on the right of the picture is a Rhododendron aboreum which grows to fifteen metres and bears the national flower of Nepal. Photographed near Lukla (altitude 28287 metres).
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half
  • National Anti-smoking campaign in Djibouti. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Tobacco free initiative in Djibouti in 2009. Colour lithograph by P. Martinello, N. An and Fabrica for World Health Organisation, 2009.
  • A no smoking sign: World No Tobacco Day in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, 2005.
  • A man puffs on a cigarette obscured by a red cross: anti-smoking campaign in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Division of Health Education, 1991.
  • Tobacco free initiative in Djibouti in 2009. Colour lithograph by Icon for World Health Organisation, ca. 2009.
  • A family eating dinner at a table turn away from a man smoking: anti-smoking campaign in Tanzania. Colour lithograph by the Tanzania Public Health Assocation, 2001.
  • A man smoking before his family: World No-Tobacco Day in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2001.
  • Understand your kick chart / produced by midwives on the W.N.B. 998 course in Mid-Glamorgan.
  • Health risks of cigarette smoking: anti-smoking campaign in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Division of Health Education, 1980.
  • Two footballers tackling before a crowd of people holding yellow flowers: tobacco free sport campaign in Morocco. Colour lithograph by Moroccan Ministry of Health, ca. 2002.
  • The face of Peter Barton Wilson, Governor of California (1991-1999) with the message "Pete Wilson wants to kill you"; protest poster about U.S. government policies on health care. Photocopy.
  • Spermatozoa approaching an egg; representing equality between men and women, and the undesirability of inequality. Colour lithograph, 2004.
  • Tobacco and betel nut chewing symptoms in Uganda. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health and WHO, ca. 2000.
  • La evoluzione spontanea sorpresa in atto mediante la congelazione = Spontaneous evolution caught in act through corpsy congelation / by Domenico Chiara.
  • Help for the mother and child in unwanted pregnancy. Colour lithograph for VBOK, 1996.
  • How to go veggie with Viva! : live and let live / Viva!.