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  • 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.
  • Optics: a soap bubble exhibiting interference colours. Colour mezzotint (?) by M. Rapine, c. 1883, after B. Desgoffe.
  • A boy sits on a stone with a bowl and a bubble pipe. Chromolithograph after J.E. Millais.
  • The Portable Food Co's consolidated soups and dessicated vegetables : "no trouble" : Burn, fire! Cauldron bubble! Splendid soup, NO TROUBLE.
  • AIDS in bold letters with a speech bubble containing the words 'Talk about it'; advertisement for the Highland Aids Resource Centre. Lithograph.
  • AIDS in bold letters with a speech bubble containing the words 'Bruidhinn mu dheidhinn'; advertisement for the Highland Aids Resource Centre. Colour lithograph.
  • A naked man holds a condom while leaning over the shoulders of another against a tiled background with a speech bubble; an advertisement for safe sex by the Projectgroep Publiekscampagne AIDS/SOA. Colour lithograph.
  • A man puts his arm around a woman with a speech bubble above them containing a condom; a safe-sex advertisement by the NGO AIDS Consortium with PATH in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A pixelated square figure with glasses, arms, legs and trainers with a speech bubble containing the words 'Know AIDS'; an advertisement for AIDS facts by the New York State Department of Health. Colour lithograph.
  • A whiskered figure placing a paw into a condom with a speech bubble of musical notes and the question in French: 'You've forgotten nothing?"; an advertisement for safe sex. Colour lithograph by Ludovic Joffrain, 1993.
  • A long-nosed cartoon figure wearing a brown all-in-one suit with a speech bubble exclaiming thanks for latex; an advertisement for safer sex by the Gay Men's Health Crisis. Colour lithograph by Don Herron, 1989.
  • A bare-chested woman in pink polka dot knickers holds up a condom to a naked black man with the speech bubble containing a safe sex message: an advertisement for safe sex by the Projectgroep Publiekscampagne AIDS/SOA. Colour lithograph.
  • A man with a speech bubble telling us to use condom sense and stop unprotected sex; an AIDS prevention advertisement for the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. 1997.
  • A personified condom with a large speech bubble containing messages, interspersed with hearts, based on the idea that love is the solution to AIDS; surrounded by blue graphic symbols of Adam and Eve. Colour silk screen print after R. Combas, 1993.
  • A child's line figure with a downturned mouth and a speech bubble saying "Nobody wants to play with me", with four other smiling children beyond and the words 'AIDS'; representing the social problems for children with AIDS. Colour lithograph by the AIDS-Hilfe Krefeld e.V.
  • A naked woman 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 Ugandan soldier of the National Resistance Army dressed in combat uniform holding a rifle; a thought-bubble containing a semi-naked woman appears to his left and a condom below, warning about the importance of safe-sex to prevent AIDS; an advertisement by the Public Health, NRA. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • 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.
  • A comparative advertisement for the benefits of Stimorol chewing gum and condoms featuring a figure standing far left blowing a bubble with one foot resting against the picture border; he looks out at a landscape featuring an eye, a lake, a volcano spurting out hearts with two people running towards each other, and a pair of lips; with a packet of 'stimorol' chewing gum next to a condom in the sky. Colour lithograph.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae. Goatsbeard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae Goats beard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae. Goatsbeard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The South Sea Scheme: speculators ruined by the collapse of the South Sea Company. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1721.
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  • Robert Knight, Cashier of the South Sea Company, stands in a boat surrounded by horses, people and small devils. Engraving.
  • Papanicolaou stained smear of a clival chordoma, microscopy. Chordomas are cancers formed of cells which resemble those of the notochord (spine) of a developing foetus. Although they can present anywhere within the spine and skull, the majority grow in the sacral region of the spine, corresponding to the lower back. This image shows a Papanicolaou (Pap) stained smear obtained from a needle biopsy of a chordoma in the clivus, a part of the cranium at the base of the skull.
  • Papanicolaou stained smear of a C2 vertebral chordomal mass, microscopy. Chordomas are cancers formed of cells which resemble those of the notochord (spine) of a developing foetus. Although they can present anywhere within the spine and skull, the majority grow in the sacral region of the spine, corresponding to the lower back. This image shows a Papanicolaou (pap) stained smear obtained from a needle biopsy of a chordoma of the C2 vertebrae, located at the top of the neck just underneath the base of the skull.