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  • The R. N. A. Hospital, Truro: First World War military convalescents and nurses: group portrait. Photograph, 1916.
  • World War One nurses, with arms outstretched, stand with soldiers on the steps of a large building during a ceremonial occasion, New York City. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood, 1918.
  • Boer War: soldiers from the Imperial Yeomanry and a nurse outside a military hospital tent. Process print after J. Hall Edwards, 1900.
  • World War One, France: a radiographer wearing protective clothing and headpiece. Photograph by H. J. Hickman, ca. 1918.
  • World War One, France: a radiographer wearing protective clothing and headpiece. Photograph by H. J. Hickman, ca. 1918.
  • Moascar, Egypt: a First World War (?) military camp: tents in rows with an Egyptian soldier. Photograph by J. D. Graham, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Railway warrant for the use only of officers, ladies of Q.A.I. military nursing service, and the families of officers enumerated in paragraph 339, allowance regulations, travelling on duty without troops in the United Kingdom / War Office.
  • Railway warrant for the use only of officers, ladies of Q.A.I. military nursing service, and the families of officers enumerated in paragraph 339, allowance regulations, travelling on duty without troops in the United Kingdom / War Office.
  • A dentist (Woodrow Wilson) forcefully extracting a tooth from a patient (Kaiser Wilhelm II); representing America's successes in the First world war. Pen drawing by E.J. Sullivan, 1918.
  • Russo-Turkish War: a wounded Turkish soldiers is brought to two doctors wearing the Red Crescent; a nurse is giving some water to another wounded man; a makeshift hospital in the background. Coloured wood engraving by C. Roberts after J.E. Hodgson, ca. 1877.
  • Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia.[he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’]. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia [he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and reverses the constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Nurses in the laundry of a hospital. Photograph, 191-.
  • A visiting Red Cross nurse giving a drink to a grateful woman in bed. Colour lithograph, 194-.
  • A little bit of fluff? Kamarad! / D.G.B.
  • A case for "Blighty" : Canadian official / Pictorial Newspaper Co. (1910), Ltd.
  • A case for "Blighty" : Canadian official / Pictorial Newspaper Co. (1910), Ltd.
  • Edith Cavell wearing Red Cross uniform lying dead on the floor, a gloating jackbooted Prussian officer stands over her corpse, holding a smoking revolver, Death with a lantern looks on. Colour process print after T. Corbella, 1915.
  • Edith Cavell wearing Red Cross uniform lying dead on the floor as her spirit rises in the form of an angel. Process print after A. Rosell, ca. 1915.
  • [Postcard showing a Red Cross nurse (V.A.D.) cut into 12 pieces to make a jigsaw. Same as EPH464:39].
  • [Postcard showing a Red Cross nurse (V.A.D.) cut into 12 pieces to make a jigsaw. Same as EPH464:39].
  • [Postcard showing a Red Cross nurse (V.A.D.) cut into 12 pieces to make a jigsaw. Same as EPH464:39].
  • [Postcard showing a Red Cross nurse (V.A.D.) cut into 12 pieces to make a jigsaw. Same as EPH464:39].
  • [Postcard showing a Red Cross nurse (V.A.D.) cut into 12 pieces to make a jigsaw. Same as EPH464:39].
  • [Postcard showing a Red Cross nurse (V.A.D.) cut into 12 pieces to make a jigsaw. Same as EPH464:39].
  • [Postcard showing a Red Cross nurse (V.A.D.) cut into 12 pieces to make a jigsaw. Same as EPH464:39].
  • [Postcard showing a Red Cross nurse (V.A.D.)].
  • [Postcard showing a Red Cross nurse (V.A.D.) cut into 12 pieces to make a jigsaw. Same as EPH464:39].
  • [Postcard showing a Red Cross nurse (V.A.D.) cut into 12 pieces to make a jigsaw. Same as EPH464:39].
  • [Postcard showing a Red Cross nurse (V.A.D.) cut into 12 pieces to make a jigsaw. Same as EPH464:39].