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  • Collage of art works bearing dedications to people who have died from AIDS; advertisement for The Names Project Foundation and the National AIDS Memorial. Colour lithograph.
  • A herald reads from a black parabaik and announces that Prince Siddhattha will prove he is proficientt in the art of shooting arrows, archery to the people
  • A man and woman sit in discussion drinking from cups at a table with people at art easels in the background; advertisement for services provided by the London Lighthouse day centre for those with AIDS and HIV. Colour lithograph, 1991.
  • Domestic medicine; or, the family physician; being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases. Chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines / [William Buchan].
  • Domestic medicine; or, the family physician; being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases. Chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines / [William Buchan].
  • Municipal old people's home (Fondation Valentin), Levallois-Perret: façade and lateral elevation. Process print, 1913.
  • Two young people and an old monk in prayer. Etching by V. Ferreri after B. Pinelli.
  • People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.
  • An old woman and a visitor in a living room, and two old men in a garden; representing the need for care of elderly people in Wales. Lithograph, ca. 1960.
  • An old woman and a visitor in a living room, and two old men in a garden; representing the need for care of elderly people in Wales. Colour lithograph, ca. 1960.
  • Old Calabar, Nigeria: local people gathering drinking water from a river, filling vessels and washing clothes (?). Photograph, 1910/1920.
  • Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day / edited by H.D. Traill and J.S. Mann.
  • Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.
  • People engaged in pleasures (dancing, drinking, gaming, flirting) to counteract the pains of illness and old age. Line engraving attributed to O. van Veen (Vaenius).
  • Good food for better health : easy eating for the over sixties / issued jointly by the British Dietetic Association Incorporated... and the National Old People's Welfare Council.
  • Good food for better health : easy eating for the over sixties / issued jointly by the British Dietetic Association Incorporated... and the National Old People's Welfare Council.
  • An old woman is sitting on a chair with young people around in groups and a large cauldron on an open fire. Engraving by S. Smith after T. Stothard.
  • A bearded old man and a young woman representing Philosophy and Art respectively: he points to a book about mechanics and science, while she points to a painting of the Nativity of Christ. Engraving by W. Ridgway after D. Huntington.
  • Belisarius as a blind old man with a stick, leans against a column with broken masonry around him and stretches out his hands: he is watched by people in the background. Engraving by R. Strange after S. Rosa.
  • Medicina gerocomica: or, the Galenic art of preserving old men's healths. Explained in twenty chapters. To which is added an appendix, concerning the use of oyls and unction, in the prevention and cure of some diseases. As also a method ... of curing convulsions and epilepsies, by external operation / By Sir John Floyer.
  • The physician's pulse-watch; or, an essay to explain the old art of feeling the pulse, and to improve it by the help of a pulse-watch ... To which is added, an extract out of Andrew Cleyer, concerning the Chinese art of feeling the pulse. (An appendic. I. An essay to make a new sphygmologia ... II. An inquiry into the nature ... of the respirations ... III. A letter concerning the rupture in the lungs) / [Sir John Floyer].
  • The physician's pulse-watch; or, an essay to explain the old art of feeling the pulse, and to improve it by the help of a pulse-watch ... To which is added, an extract out of Andrew Cleyer, concerning the Chinese art of feeling the pulse. (An appendic. I. An essay to make a new sphygmologia ... II. An inquiry into the nature ... of the respirations ... III. A letter concerning the rupture in the lungs) / [Sir John Floyer].
  • The physician's pulse-watch; or, an essay to explain the old art of feeling the pulse, and to improve it by the help of a pulse-watch ... To which is added, an extract out of Andrew Cleyer, concerning the Chinese art of feeling the pulse. (An appendic. I. An essay to make a new sphygmologia ... II. An inquiry into the nature ... of the respirations ... III. A letter concerning the rupture in the lungs) / [Sir John Floyer].
  • The physician's pulse-watch; or, an essay to explain the old art of feeling the pulse, and to improve it by the help of a pulse-watch ... To which is added, an extract out of Andrew Cleyer, concerning the Chinese art of feeling the pulse. (An appendic. I. An essay to make a new sphygmologia ... II. An inquiry into the nature ... of the respirations ... III. A letter concerning the rupture in the lungs) / [Sir John Floyer].
  • The physician's pulse-watch; or, an essay to explain the old art of feeling the pulse, and to improve it by the help of a pulse-watch ... To which is added, an extract out of Andrew Cleyer, concerning the Chinese art of feeling the pulse. (An appendic. I. An essay to make a new sphygmologia ... II. An inquiry into the nature ... of the respirations ... III. A letter concerning the rupture in the lungs) / [Sir John Floyer].
  • The physician's pulse-watch; or, an essay to explain the old art of feeling the pulse, and to improve it by the help of a pulse-watch ... To which is added, an extract out of Andrew Cleyer, concerning the Chinese art of feeling the pulse. (An appendic. I. An essay to make a new sphygmologia ... II. An inquiry into the nature ... of the respirations ... III. A letter concerning the rupture in the lungs) / [Sir John Floyer].
  • A personified penis wearing sunglasses and a condom as a hat with a message about supporting people with AIDS; below is a forlorn looking figure with arms outstretched among flowers representing a child with AIDS, an illustration originally by J Keeler inspired by the experience of the hemophiliac 13-year old, Ryan White; an advertisement by the Community AIDS Service in Penang (CASP). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • 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.
  • Damon's advice to Chloe, or, Darby and Joan.
  • Damon's advice to Chloe, or, Darby and Joan.