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  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 62nd session, group portrait- including N. Cheua, A.K. Cosgrove, J.A. Cruickshank, Gray, J., A.L. Gregg, W.P. Hogg, M.K. Abdul Khalik, E.U. MacWilliam, M. Jackson, Dr. G.C. Low, E.G. Mack, Miss Turner, R.T. Leiper, J.S. Maxwell, Dr. Sambon, G.A.S. Madgwick, E.J. Wood, G. Warren, Dr. P. Manson-Bahr.
  • Silphium perfoliatum L. Asteraceae Indian Cup. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) records that another species, S. compositum, was used by Native Americans to produce a chewing gum from the dried sap of the roots, and Native American medicinal uses for 'Indian Cup' are probably referrable to S. compositum and not S. perfoliatum. Silphium perfoliatum contains enzymes that inhibit trypsin and chymotrypsin which gives it resistance to fungal, bacterial and insect attacks. Male gall wasps (Antisotrophus rufus) alter the chemistry of the plant to enable them to locate females, making it a 'signpost' plant. The gall wasp lays its eggs in the stem of Silphium laciniatum, to provide food for the larva on emergence, and the galls containing a male or a female wasp will cause the plant to give off a different chemical odour. Emerging male wasps can search for female wasps, which emerge later, by locating this chemical fragrance which acts as a sex pheromone proxy (Tooker et al Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Nov 26
  • A treatise of the plague: containing the nature, signes, and accidents of the same, with the certaine and absolute cure of the fevers, botches, and carbuncles that raigne in these times: and above all things most singular experiments and preservatives in the same, gathered by the observation of divers worthy travailers, and selected out of the writings of the best learned phisitians in this age.
  • A plant (Utricularia montana): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1873, after himself.
  • A lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium drurii): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph by J. N. Fitch, c. 1880, after himself.
  • A tropical plant (Acokanthera spectabilis): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1872, after himself.
  • An azalea (Rhododendron species): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1872, after himself.
  • A plant (Tillandsia musaica): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph by J. N. Fitch, c. 1880, after himself.
  • Christ with Mary and Martha. Lithograph by C. Hahn, 184-, after J. Hübner.
  • Annual report for the year 1902 (fifth year of issue) / Metropolitan Asylums Board.
  • A condom with gay men and women lounging around an inner-city swimming pool with three smaller illustrations of other inner-city meeting venues for gay people; advertisement for safe sex and condoms by the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Maurice Vellekoop, 1992.
  • The Royal museum and foreground. Lithograph by W. Loeillot.
  • I.P. Pavlov and students in the vivisection room, Physiology Department at the Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • A block of flats which turns into a packet of cigarettes, surrounded by factories with smoking chimneys; representing the pollutant effects of cigarette smoking. Colour lithograph after I.V. Tomash, 1988.
  • I.P. Pavlov and seventeen of his associates standing outside the Physiology Department, Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine, St Petersburg. Photograph, 1904.
  • 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 physiology laboratory, either at the Institute of Experimental Medicine or at the Imperial Military Medical Academy, St Petersburg, with workbenches, cabinets of apparatus, and two members of staff. Photograph, 1904.
  • Stabilarsan veterinary : supplied in 10 c.c. rubber-capped vials containing 1.28% w/v As2O2... / Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd.
  • Stabilarsan veterinary : supplied in 10 c.c. rubber-capped vials containing 1.28% w/v As2O2... / Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd.
  • M0006601: Milton visiting Galileo when a prisoner of the Inquisition
  • A burning cigarette, of which the ash at the burning end turns into people carrying the coffin of a smoker. Colour lithograph after V. Volkov and A. Marchenko, 1988.
  • M0006977: Portrait possibly of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
  • Pilgrim's pennant for the Virgin of Scherpenheuvel (Montaigu), Belgium, printed on the Belgian flag. Printed flag, 191-.
  • Malaria: a construction worker receiving medical attention designed to prevent the spread of malaria. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.
  • Malaria: spraying a workers' settlement with DDT and benzine hexachloride (lindane) to kill the mosquitoes. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.
  • Malaria: precautions taken by surveyors and other land workers in rural areas of Russia. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.
  • M0006531: Portrait of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827-1912)
  • M0006531: Portrait of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827-1912)
  • M0006531: Portrait of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827-1912)
  • M0006531: Portrait of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827-1912)