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  • Must be seen to be believed : Just arrived from Holland : John Allart respectfully informs the inhabitants of this town, that he has just arrived from Holland with Francina Kroone the greatest living wonder! ever exhibited : born at Wyke by Durstede in Netherland, aged 36, years ...
  • A pregnancy test kit with a warning that if your pregnancy test is positive, you must also take the test for HIV to prevent the spread of AIDS and infecting your baby; advertisement for the AIDS information line by the Illinois Department pf Public Health. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A signed prescription for an HIV test with a pregnancy test kit and a warning that you must take the HIV test before you test positive for pregnancy to help prevent the spread of AIDS; advertisement for the AIDS information line by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • A signed prescription for an HIV test with a pregnancy test kit and a warning that you must take the HIV test before you test positive for pregnancy to help prevent the spread of AIDS; advertisement for the AIDS information line by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • For sexual transmission of HIV to occcur, body fluids (blood or semen) must enter the partner's body through the vagina, rectum or penis : A condom should be used in heterosexual sex for both vaginal and anal sex (for anal sex a stronger condom should be used) ... / Scottish AIDS Monitor ; photography by Alasdair Foster.
  • For sexual transmission of HIV to occcur, body fluids (blood or semen) must enter the partner's body through the vagina, rectum or penis : A condom should be used in heterosexual sex for both vaginal and anal sex (for anal sex a stronger condom should be used) ... / Scottish AIDS Monitor ; photography by Alasdair Foster.
  • A closed red tulip pointing towards an opening lily representing 'Love Question No 159', a warning that you can think what you like about infidelity, but you must think about the consequences of cheating without a condom?; one of a series of safe sex AIDS prevention advertisements by Folkhälsoinstitutet, RFSU and RFSL. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.
  • Diagram of a corset for the treatment of masturbation. Suspensoir a poche elastique. (Suspending rod has pocket elastic) Fig. 1. Elevation de face, et tel qu'il doit etre place et vu sur le sujet. (Elevation in face, and such as it must be placed and seen on the subject) Fig. 2. Elevation lateralr, ou profil (Elevation lateral, or profile)
  • Nepal; deforestation in the Khumbu, 1986. Stacked firewood outside a Sherpa house at Phakding (altitude 3200 metres). Also shown are carrying baskets (bottom right) and prayer flags attached to thin sticks stuck into the ground. In common with many smallholdings, the ground floor of the house is reserved for animals while the family lives upstairs. By the early 1980s, it was estimated that massive deforestation was contributing to the loss of 240 million cubic metres of topsoil in Nepal each year. Sherpas rely on wood for fuel but lack of chimneys in most homes contribute to the coughs and bronchial congestion common to most. Poor hygiene is prevalent because precious wood must be destroyed to create hot water.
  • Carthamus tinctorius L. Asteraceae. Safe Flower, False Saffron - Distribution: W. Asia. Dioscorides (in Beck, 2003) notes the seeds as a purgative, but also advises it made up with 30 figs, which must have helped. Gerard (1640) calls it Atractylis flore luteo the yellow distaffe thistle. and follows Dioscorides in its uses, but does get the reader confused with Cnicus benedictus, calling both plants 'wild bastard saffron'. Culpeper makes no mention of it in his early works, but later (1826) have the following: ‘Wild Saffon, or Saf-flower ... accounted a pretty strong cathartic [causing diarrhoea and vomiting], evacuating tough viscid phlegm, both upwards and downwards, and by that means is said to clear the lungs, and help the phthisic [now equated with tuberculosis]. It is likewise serviceable against the jaundice
  • Adonis vernalis L. Ranunculaceae. Pheasant's eye, the golden flowered spring (or vernal) Adonis, is named in memory of Adonis, the Greek god of plants, who disappeared into the earth in the winter and reappeared in the spring. The flowers were said to have sprung from his blood when he was gored to death by a wild boar, but this plant must have been the blood red Adonis aestivalis, the summer Adonis. Distribution: Eurasia to Spain and Sweden. Gerard (1633) recommends it for renal stone and intestinal colic. Lewis & Elvin Lewis (2003) note it is poisonous, containing cardiac glycosides (adonitoxin, cymarin, K-strophanthin) and flavonoids. The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)) bans its use for ingestion 'no dose permitted' but allow it to be prescribed by a herbal practitioner on a one-to-one consultation. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Poets and dramatists: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Hard horny easy sleazy : we were in the backroom; no one mentioned condoms... / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Warm wet sexy steamy : we were at the sauna; no one mentioned condoms... / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Members of the French exhibition committee meeting in Copenhagen. Engraving by F. Jasinski after P. S. Kroyer, 1888.
  • A wealthy and well-dressed doctor; suggesting he has a large number of patients. Wood engraving by J. Orrin Smith after J.K. Meadows, 1840.
  • A wealthy and well-dressed doctor; suggesting he has a large number of patients. Wood engraving by J. Orrin Smith after J.K. Meadows, 1840.
  • A doctor recommending a specific diet to his obese patient's servant. Wood engraving by G. Browne, 1899.
  • Mother feeding child with spoon, Versehung des liebs, 1491
  • Phyllosan: a doctor telling a couple to take Phyllosan to compensate for the stress of modern life. Halftone and letterpress, 1937.
  • An unsympathetic doctor trying to get rid of a poor patient by frightening her. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • A putto pours a phial into a dragon's mouth, pumping a bellows with his other hand; representing the fixing of volatile matter in the alchemical process. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • A sick tribal chief consulting a witch-doctor admits to having eaten a German missionary. Pen drawing by F. Garnett.
  • A young couple with their daughter; advertising the One-child policy as essential for prosperity in China. Colour lithograph, 198-.
  • Chinese woodcut, food incompatibilities
  • A young woman with a broken pillar; representing fortitude. Etching, 16--.
  • A doctor taking the pulse of an old lady who informs him that there is a lot of insanity in her family. Wood engraving by G. King, 1913.
  • ALO, actinomyces-like organism
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian. Oil painting.
  • Starting PEP within 72 hours of unsafe sex could keep you negative / GMFA, Gay Men Fighting AIDS.