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  • A policeman (Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville) restrains another policeman (Gladstone) from interfering in a fight between the Mahdi and General Gordon next to Cleopatra's Needle on the River Thames. Colour lithograph by T. Merry, 1884.
  • A syringe with a hooked needle suggesting drugs get you hooked; organised by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Consumption in Spain. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A nurse smiles below a baby raising its arms towards a needle: Expanded Programme of Immunization in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal DSC Unit, ca. 1995.
  • The bones of a pantomime artist's foot, viewed through x-ray; revealing a needle by one of the toes. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • No catch : you won't get AIDS by giving blood. When you give blood, a new needle is used for each donor / TVS, Health Education Council.
  • The bones of a pantomime artist's foot, viewed through x-ray; revealing a needle by one of the toes. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • The bones of a pantomime artist's foot, viewed through x-ray; revealing a needle by one of the toes. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • The bones of a pantomime artist's foot, viewed through x-ray; revealing a needle by one of the toes. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.
  • A girl is wearing a very elaborate gown which is being altered at the waist by a woman with a needle and thread. Wood engraving by TB.
  • A syringe with red markings and a red arrow pointing up representing an advertisement for a self-retractable needle for single use only by Le Centre Didro. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman holding a needle (a "sharp") and syringe, with diagrams for safe disposal of used needles; representing services of Mainliners for people at risk of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Photo Co-op, Glover/Hughes and Big Active Ltd. for Mainliners, 1990/1995.
  • A hand offers a syringe to another hand with a warning about transmission of AIDS through needle-sharing. Colour lithograph, 1988, for the Coordination Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs (French Community in Belgium).
  • Two syringes with a public warning about the importance of needle sterilization to prevent the spread of diseases like AIDS; an advertisement by the Ministry of Health, Fiji and World Health Organization. Colour lithograph.
  • A man in a pink t-shirt injects a needle into the arm of another man who squints in pain with five illustrated steps for the sterilisation and safe disposal of needles; advertisment by the ACON, The AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph by Jamie Dunbar.
  • A clock in which the hands incorporate a sequence of six photographs of a couple making love then sharing a needle to inject themselves; advertisement for safe sex by the Department of Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Three labels bearing the words 'Blood', 'semen' and 'vaginal fluids' which can carry the HIV virus with an embracing couple, a needle and a pregant woman; one of a series of fact sheets about AIDS and HIV. Colour lithograph.
  • Instructions on how to sterilize needles and syringes and a warning about the dangers of needle-sharing and AIDS within the silhouette form of 2 figures in black and grey; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Voluntary Health Association of India and the Manipur Voluntary Health Association. Colour lithograph by Ramesh Sukumar for VHAI, ca. 1995.
  • A two-tone syringe with the words 'VIDAIDS' representing the message that the line that separates life from death is as thin as a needle; an AIDS prevention advertisement by ADG, Gapa and Senac. Colour lithograph by the Graphic Designers Association, 1992.
  • A red thread in the shape of the AIDS red ribbon in the eye of a needle; advertisement for an exhibition of panels from the AIDS Memorial quilt at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, June 23-25, 1995. Colour lithograph by Daniel de Souza.
  • Manufacture of needles.
  • What the doctor found : in the body of Frank Wilson, who was operated on for appendicitis in a hospital at Cairo (Ill.), were found:- a button hook, a hat pin, three keys, a lead pencil, a belt buckle, a toy pistol, three small nails, a needle, a thermometer.
  • A woman holds a syringe as if smoking a cigarette watched by a black man in a green tracksuit and another in a grey dinner suit; warning about drugs, needle-sharing and safe sex practices to prevent AIDS by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for AIDS Education. Colour lithograph.
  • A tree with a red heart pinned to the trunk and a piece of string attached to a needle pinned to the paper; with a border littered with numerous signatures; an advertisement for the Navneprojektet [The Names Project] in Århus, a project in memory of AIDS victims in Denmark. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Tattoing needles, bronze mounted in bone
  • A woman's eye looking at the needle of a syringe pointing up towards a man's eye with the message in French: "Stop AIDS. Don't start!"; an anti-drugs advertisement from a campaign of 'STOP AIDS posters by the l'AIDE Suisse contre le SIDA in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • An Arabic man dressed in a white cloak and red headpiece holding a scroll banner showing the male and female signs, a needle about to inject into an arm, a man having a blood transmission and a fetus within the womb of a pregnant woman; an advertisement about the dangers of drugs and transmission of AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1991.
  • Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (4)
  • Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (5)
  • If you hate needles you'll love emla.
  • If you hate needles you'll love emla.