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  • Don't waste your time or money on ROT! : Here's what I'm ready to do: I'll prove in just 7 days YOU can have a body like mine / Charles Atlas.
  • Don't waste your time or money on ROT! : Here's what I'm ready to do: I'll prove in just 7 days YOU can have a body like mine / Charles Atlas.
  • Don't waste your time or money on ROT! : Here's what I'm ready to do: I'll prove in just 7 days YOU can have a body like mine / Charles Atlas.
  • I can be invisible and damage your health : I'm a sexually transmitted infection : see to it : sexual health (GUM) services in and around London / CHAPS, Community HIV and AIDS Prevention Strategy.
  • I can be invisible and damage your health : I'm a sexually transmitted infection : see to it : sexual health (GUM) services in and around London / CHAPS, Community HIV and AIDS Prevention Strategy.
  • Queen Mary I touching the neck of a boy for the King's evil (scrofula). Watercolour by M.S. Lapthorn, 1911, after a watercolour, 16th. century.
  • I've met the great small of China... : World's tallest man catches up with the tiniest ... and there's a 1.8m gap.
  • Fyffes bananas : your sunshine fruit for glowing energy : "I'm tropical - please keep me warm" : unzipp [sic] a Fyffes banana / Fyffes.
  • I've met the great small of China... : World's tallest man catches up with the tiniest ... and there's a 1.8m gap.
  • Fyffes bananas : your sunshine fruit for glowing energy : "I'm tropical - please keep me warm" : unzipp [sic] a Fyffes banana / Fyffes.
  • Dr. Flannel suggests to a fashionable lady that she wear a flannel petticoat to keep her legs warm. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807?, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A woman's face with the question: "If I am HIV positive, do you still think I'm pretty - tell me yes"; advertisment for the SIDA Info Service by the Agence Français de lutte contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.
  • Nine rectangles containing a diminishing number of cigarettes, the last rectangle having none; representing gradual cessation from smoking cigarettes. Colour lithograph after I.M. Maĭstrovskiĭ, 1983.
  • "I'm pretty sure we're both negative : Like a lot of guys we don't always use condoms. Afterwards I get really . How can we be sure we're both still negative? / CHAPS, Community HIV and AIDS Prevention Strategy.
  • "I'm pretty sure we're both negative : Like a lot of guys we don't always use condoms. Afterwards I get really . How can we be sure we're both still negative? / CHAPS, Community HIV and AIDS Prevention Strategy.
  • A man with a moustache and waistcoat with one hand in his pocket with the message in Italian: "I have AIDS. And I'm afraid of your fear"; one of a series safe sex posters from a 'Stop AIDS' solidarity campaign by Aiuto AIDS Svizzero in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Lithograph by Christian Vogt.
  • A woman patient at a spa is told by her doctor that the treatment for her fertility might be helped by the presence of a 'diverting friend' - i.e. him. Lithograph by M. Stephane, c. 1896.
  • A message from the Agence française de lutte contre le SIDA about how they want to oppose the ignorance, fear, discrimination, prejudice and hatred of people with or associated with AIDS; advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1st December 1992. Colour lithograph by I.M. Communiquer.
  • A message from the Agence française de lutte contre le SIDA about how they want to oppose the ignorance, fear, discrimination, prejudice and hatred of people with or associated with AIDS; advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1st December 1992. Colour lithograph by I.M. Communiquer.
  • Mathematicall magick. Or, the wonders that may be performed by mechanicall geometry. In two books. Concerning mechanicall powers [and] motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) part of mathematicks. Not before treated of in this language / By I[ohn] W[ilkins] M.A.
  • "I have met plenty of men who have lost their situations because they drank : find me the man who has lost his because he didn't." / The Rev. Canon A. H. Sewell. M.A. (Bristol) ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • "Here's your bonus- I'm glad it's a good one this time" : as usual we are giving a special bonus of 5% on all Oxo purchases (cubes and bottles) during the Autumn bonus period ... September /October 1954 ... / Oxo Limited.
  • Sidrophel vapulans: or, the quack-astrologer toss'd in a blanket / by the author of Medicaster medicatus, [i.e. J. Young] In an epistle to W[illia]m S[almo]n. With a postscript, reflecting briefly on his late scurrilous libel against the Royal College of Physicians, entituled, A rebuke to the authors of a Blue Book. By the same hand.
  • Fat particles from the kidneys of a large sheep and some viewed with the aid of a microscope (fig. 1, a-d; e-h; i-m) (illustrations to entry on Adeps); human allantois of twins, in two views (figs 2-3), and an allantois of a small aborted foetus (fig. 4) (illustrations to entry on Allantois) Etching by G. Bickham after himself, 1743.
  • Haeckel's Evolution of Man. This plate shows the embryos of four mammals in the three corresponding stages: of a Hog (H), Calf (C), Rabbit (R), and a Man (M). The conditions of the three different stages of development, which the three crossroads (I,II,III) represent, are selected to correspond as exactly as possible.
  • Armamentarium chirurgicum, olim auctum triginta novem tabulis / ... nec non observationum medico-chirurgicarum centuria collecta a Joh. Baptista a Lamzweerde ... & observationibus Petri Hadriani [i.e. C.V.] F[ilii] Verduin, studio Johannis Tilingii M. D. editis. Nunc vero in meliorem ordinem redactum, ab innumeris mendis expurgatum, & locupletissimo indice provisum studio Johan. Christophori de Sprögel.
  • Armamentarium chirurgicum, olim auctum triginta novem tabulis / ... nec non observationum medico-chirurgicarum centuria collecta a Joh. Baptista a Lamzweerde ... & observationibus Petri Hadriani [i.e. C.V.] F[ilii] Verduin, studio Johannis Tilingii M. D. editis. Nunc vero in meliorem ordinem redactum, ab innumeris mendis expurgatum, & locupletissimo indice provisum studio Johan. Christophori de Sprögel.
  • Armamentarium chirurgicum, olim auctum triginta novem tabulis / ... nec non observationum medico-chirurgicarum centuria collecta a Joh. Baptista a Lamzweerde ... & observationibus Petri Hadriani [i.e. C.V.] F[ilii] Verduin, studio Johannis Tilingii M. D. editis. Nunc vero in meliorem ordinem redactum, ab innumeris mendis expurgatum, & locupletissimo indice provisum studio Johan. Christophori de Sprögel.
  • Armamentarium chirurgicum, olim auctum triginta novem tabulis / ... nec non observationum medico-chirurgicarum centuria collecta a Joh. Baptista a Lamzweerde ... & observationibus Petri Hadriani [i.e. C.V.] F[ilii] Verduin, studio Johannis Tilingii M. D. editis. Nunc vero in meliorem ordinem redactum, ab innumeris mendis expurgatum, & locupletissimo indice provisum studio Johan. Christophori de Sprögel.
  • Armamentarium chirurgicum, olim auctum triginta novem tabulis / ... nec non observationum medico-chirurgicarum centuria collecta a Joh. Baptista a Lamzweerde ... & observationibus Petri Hadriani [i.e. C.V.] F[ilii] Verduin, studio Johannis Tilingii M. D. editis. Nunc vero in meliorem ordinem redactum, ab innumeris mendis expurgatum, & locupletissimo indice provisum studio Johan. Christophori de Sprögel.