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  • A woman with long hair representing an advertisement for safe sex; created by Alberta Advertising Agencies Association as part of an advertisement AIDS/HIV Prevention campaign Lithograph by Greg Gerla/West 11th Photography.
  • A message from the Agence française de lutte contre le SIDA about how they want to oppose the ignorance, fear, discrimination, prejudice and hatred of people with or associated with AIDS; advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1st December 1992. Colour lithograph by I.M. Communiquer.
  • A red telephone cord twisted in the shape of the AIDS red ribbon with a message that friends, lovers and those who support gays affected by AIDS also need to be heard; an advertisement for the SIDA Info Service in association with World AIDS Day, 1 December. Colour lithograph by L'Agence Verte.
  • A bungee cord is compared to the rubber of a condom, both representing life-savers; part of the Alberta HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns for young adults. Lithograph by Clint Adam Smyth and Ad Design.
  • Nine posters promoting the benefits of sexual abstinence and warnings about the importance of condoms and safe sex by the National AIDS Stategy, Health Canada. Lithograph.
  • Tesco : Beechams you'll feel better with Beechams around.
  • Tesco : Beechams you'll feel better with Beechams around.
  • Pexicon : an all-the-year-round product : makes jam set like magic / The Pexicon Company.
  • Pexicon : an all-the-year-round product : makes jam set like magic / The Pexicon Company.
  • Pexicon : an all-the-year-round product : makes jam set like magic / The Pexicon Company.
  • Pexicon : an all-the-year-round product : makes jam set like magic / The Pexicon Company.
  • Pexicon : an all-the-year-round product : makes jam set like magic / The Pexicon Company.
  • Pexicon : an all-the-year-round product : makes jam set like magic / The Pexicon Company.
  • Pexicon : an all-the-year-round product : makes jam set like magic / The Pexicon Company.
  • Pexicon : an all-the-year-round product : makes jam set like magic / The Pexicon Company.
  • Appetite control / Messrs Mayrs Agencies ; Clinical Products Ltd.
  • Appetite control / Messrs Mayrs Agencies ; Clinical Products Ltd.
  • Appetite control / Messrs Mayrs Agencies ; Clinical Products Ltd.
  • Appetite control / Messrs Mayrs Agencies ; Clinical Products Ltd.
  • Organic : your down to earth guide / Tesco.
  • Organic : your down to earth guide / Tesco.
  • Paeonia suffruticosa 'Bai Yu'
  • Paeonia suffruticosa 'Bai Yu'
  • Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. Asteraceae Milk thistle. Carduus Mariae. Distribution: Europe. Gerard (1633) calls it Carduus Mariae, Carduus Lectus, or Ladies Thistle, and Carduus leucographus [meaning 'white writing', in reference to the white markings on the leaves] because Pliny wrote about a plant he called Leucographis although Gerard notes that it would be 'hard to assume this to be the same [plant].' He also queries if it is the same as the Alba spina of Galen. Of the latter he reports that Galen recommended it for all manner of bleeding, toothache and the seeds for cramp. Gerard writes that Dioscorides recommends that a drink of the seeds helps infants whose sinews are 'drawne together'
  • Paeonia suffruticosa 'Chang Zhi Hong'
  • Vitex agnus-castus var. latifolia
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half