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  • Pliny said that the Roman people survived six hundred years without doctors ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).
  • Pliny said that the Roman people survived six hundred years without doctors ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).
  • Information and advice on how to survive HIV & AIDS long term / Continuum, changing the way we think about AIDS.
  • Elizabeth Woodcock, depicted as found after having survived being buried in snow for eight days, aged 42. Stipple engraving, 1813.
  • Information and advice on how to survive HIV & AIDS long term / Continuum, changing the way we think about AIDS.
  • Information and advice on how to survive HIV & AIDS long term / Continuum, changing the way we think about AIDS.
  • Information and advice on how to survive HIV & AIDS long term / Continuum, changing the way we think about AIDS.
  • A man and a woman expressing gratitude for surviving the siege of Seville. Oil painting by a Spanish painter, 1843.
  • The execution of the eight surviving conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot in 1606 in London. Etching with engraving by C.J. Visscher.
  • 3D view on vessels of a healthy minipig eye. The upper opening corresponds to the pupil as the gateway input of all light into the eye. It is interesting to see the marked abundance of vessels of the pupil which bring energy and food to the muscles to control the amount of incident light. The other large vessels are feeder vessels for the outer layers of the retina and muscles, so, that the eye quickly can perceive the environment and the creature may adapt and survive.
  • Yoruba Ibedji (effigies) representing dead twins, Nigeria, West Africa. Some Yoruba tribes revere twins, who are thought to bring luck to household and tribe. The death of one is a great calamity. A wooden figure, called Ibedji, is made to house the spirit of the dead child and be a companion for the surviving twin. The Ibedji figure becomes a cult-object in the family and the mother tends it, offers it food and decks it with beads, cowrie shells, red camwood and other adornments.
  • [Leaflet explaing the Red Cross prisoner of war food parcels system during world war 2 and asking for help].
  • [Leaflet explaing the Red Cross prisoner of war food parcels system during world war 2 and asking for help].
  • [Leaflet explaing the Red Cross prisoner of war food parcels system during world war 2 and asking for help].
  • [Leaflet explaing the Red Cross prisoner of war food parcels system during world war 2 and asking for help].
  • James Scott, Australian medical student lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food, drinking from a snowball to rehydrate in the afternoon sun. Drawing by M. H. Boscott, 1993.
  • James Scott, Australian medical student, lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food. Drawing by Martin Howard Boscott, 1993.
  • March of the VEGF-B(10-108)-VEGFR-1D2 molecules
  • A woman raises her hand to her partner as she considers marriage: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, ca. 2001.
  • A couple reading a family planning method leaflet: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, ca. 2001.
  • A pregnant woman beside a health worker: safe child birth in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Staywell Foundation, ca. 2000.
  • A nurse tends a baby on a mothers lap within a map of Nigeria: immunization of polio in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Northern League of NGO's, ca. 1997.
  • A nurse tends a baby on a mothers lap within a map of Nigeria: immunization of polio in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Northern League of NGO's, ca. 1997.
  • A nurse tends a baby on a mothers lap within a map of Nigeria: immunization against polio in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Northern League of NGO's, ca. 1997.
  • HeLa cells expressing the protein survivin
  • A range of contraceptive methods: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, ca. 2001.
  • Apoptosis
  • Apoptosis
  • Apoptosis
  • Human brain cancer stem cells, SEM