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  • Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, Deelfontein, South Africa: the "Eastern Counties" ward with patients in bed. Photograph by Sherborn.
  • Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. Mimosaceae. Australian Blackwood. Tree. Distribution: Eastern Australia. Tree. Invasive weed in South Africa, Portugal, California. Local uses: analgesic. Causes allergic contact dermatitis due to 2,6,dimethoxybenzoquinone. Pinnate leaves of young plant drop off and phylloclades are formed instead. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Journal of a second expedition into the interior of Africa, from the Bight of Berin to Soccatoo / by the late Commander Clapperton ... To which is added, the journal of Richard Lander from Kano to the sea-coast. Partly by a more eastern route. With a portrait of Captain Clapperton, and a map of the route, chiefly laid down from actual observations for latitude and longitude.
  • Journal of a second expedition into the interior of Africa, from the Bight of Berin to Soccatoo / by the late Commander Clapperton ... To which is added, the journal of Richard Lander from Kano to the sea-coast. Partly by a more eastern route. With a portrait of Captain Clapperton, and a map of the route, chiefly laid down from actual observations for latitude and longitude.
  • Hydrangea quercifolia W.Bartram Hydrangeaceae. Oak-leaved hydrangea. Distribution: South-eastern United States. Beta-dichroine a quinazolinone also called febrifugine from the leaves of hydrangeas is 64-100 times more potent than quinine as an antimalarial in animals, but extremely toxic. A synthesised tolyl derivative, methaqualone (2-methyl-3-o-tolyl-4(3H)-quinazolinone), was found to be a mild hypnotic, and marketed in the sleeping tablet, Mandrax. Widely abused and quickly banned by most countries. Illegal manufacture continues and in South Africa methaqualone is the commonest drug of abuse, mixed with cannabis and smoked. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Splints from Somaliland, East Africa.
  • Vicia faba L. Fabaceae. Broad beans, Fava bean. Distribution: N. Africa, SW Asia. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Fabarum. Of Beans. Of Bean Cods (or Pods as we in Sussex call them) being burned, the ashes are a sovereign remedy for aches in the joints, old bruises, gout and sciaticaes.’ The beans are perfectly edible for the majority, but 1% of Caucasians, predominantly among Greeks, Italians and people from the Eastern Mediterranean regions, have a genetic trait in that they lack the ability to produce the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. As a consequence, eating broad beans or even inhaling the pollen, causes a severe haemolytic anaemia a few days later. This condition is known as favism. The whole plant, including the beans, contains levodopa, a precursor of dopamine, and some patients with Parkinsonism report symptomatic improvement after commencing on a diet that contains these beans regularly. A case of neuroleptic malignant-like syndrome (fever, rigidity, autonomic instability, altered consciousness, elevated creatine phosphokinase levels) consequent on abrupt discontinuation of a diet containing plenty of broad beans, has been described in a patient with Parkinsonism. This is usually seen when patients abruptly discontinue L-dopa therapy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • East Africa (?): a convoy of trucks carrying African men. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Somerset East, South Africa: a street. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Centres of the slave trade in East Africa patrolled by the Royal Navy. Wood engraving, 1875.
  • Africa, the Dinka tribe, Bahr-El-Chazal. A group (long legs) East side of the Nile.
  • East Africa: a Masai woman wearing heavy armlets, ear-lobe distenders, necklets etc. Process print, 190-.
  • Robert Koch and Stabsarzt Kleine with a dead crocodile, East Africa. Process print after a photograph, 1906/1907.
  • East London, South Africa: part of the Buffalo River. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • South Africa: hunters at their camp with their Easter kill. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Notice for conference promoting neurosurgical care in Africa: Colour lithograph by East African Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2011.
  • Pencil sketches of local weapons, "assagai" (assegai) and arrow heads, by Lionel Decle during travels through central and east Africa.
  • East London, South Africa: a jetty and buildings near the mouth of the Buffalo River. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Britannia pointing to Sanatogen, Formamint, and German colonies in Africa and the East Indies as new British possessions. Colour process print after E.F. Skinner.
  • Thunbergia alata Sims Acanthaceae. Black-eyed Susan. Tender, perennial herbaceous climbing plant. Distribution: East Africa. Named for Carl Peter (Pehr or Per) Thunberg (1743-1828), doctor, botanist, student of Linnaeus who collected plants in Japan, Sri Lanka and South Africa. He published Flora Japonica (1784)
  • The Kilwa area (Nanganachi village ?), Tanzania, East Africa: a Tanzanian man spit-roasting meat over an open fire in front of a grass hut. Photograph by Andrew Balfour, ca. 1910 (?).
  • Four slaves in East Africa chained at the neck carrying brushwood fuel; other slaves chained at the neck working in rice fields. Wood engraving or process print after J.B. Zwecker after J.A. Grant.
  • Reality versus romance in South Central Africa : An account of a journey across the continent from Benguella on the West, through Bihe, Ganguella, Barotse, the Kalihari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Gorongoza, Nyasa, the Shire Highlands, to the mouth of the Zambesi on the East Coast / [James Johnston].
  • Reality versus romance in South Central Africa : An account of a journey across the continent from Benguella on the West, through Bihe, Ganguella, Barotse, the Kalihari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Gorongoza, Nyasa, the Shire Highlands, to the mouth of the Zambesi on the East Coast / [James Johnston].
  • Reality versus romance in South Central Africa : An account of a journey across the continent from Benguella on the West, through Bihe, Ganguella, Barotse, the Kalihari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Gorongoza, Nyasa, the Shire Highlands, to the mouth of the Zambesi on the East Coast / [James Johnston].
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.
  • Sketches towards a Hortus botanicus americanus, or, Coloured plates (with a catalogue and concise and familiar descriptions of many species) of new and valuable plants of the West Indies and North and South America : Also of several others, natives of Africa and the East Indies; arranged after the Linnaean system.