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  • Brown & Polson Ltd. Cookery Club, 43-44 Shoe Lane, London E.C.4 : president, Mrs. Jean Scott, secretary, Miss L.K. Pike.
  • Jean Baptiste Biot. Aquatint by E. Quenedey after a "physionotrace".
  • Jean Baptiste Biot. Aquatint by E. Quenedey after a "physionotrace".
  • Portrait of C.E. Brown-Sequard by Laniepce, Paris from a print by Ciba, Basle.
  • Two women open a cupboard in which a skeleton stands. Engraving by Brown after W.M. Craig, 1819, after E. Haywood.
  • Jean-Casimir-Félix Guyon holding up a gall-stone in a bottle after performing a lithotrity on a male patient, other doctors monitor the patient's condition. Heliogravure by Dujardin after E. Bisson, 1890.
  • Jean-Casimir-Félix Guyon holding up a gall-stone in a bottle after performing a lithotrity on a male patient, other doctors monitor the patient's condition. Heliogravure by Dujardin after E. Bisson, 1890.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine, 7th Session group portrait, including Sir Patrick Manson, J.T. Bradley, B.G. Brock, J. Ritchie Brown, C.W. Daniels, D. M. Ford, A.L.N. MacLean, R.N. Moffatt, A. Terzi, Rev. A.P. Tjellstrom, J.P. Tullock, P. Michelli, T.E. Rice, P.T. Manson (different from Sir Patrick Manson), Dr. Sambon, G.D. Warren, Robert (lab assistant.
  • A couple sit in a slum dwelling playing a card game; the man is drinking from a tankard and washing is hanging from a line stretched across the room. Wood engraving by E. Landells after H.K. Browne.
  • Ricinus communis L. Euphorbiaceae Castor oil plant. Palma Christi. Distribution: Mediterranean, E Africa, India. The seeds themselves are pretty, brown, bean-like usually with gold filigree markings on them, and the interior of the seed is the source of castor oil. The outer coat of the seed is the source of the poison ricin, famous (infamous) for the umbrella murder of Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. The KGB are alleged to have killed Georgi Markov, a dissident Bulgarian journalist, with a pellet containing 0.28mgm of ricin fired into his leg using a specially adapted air gun in an umbrella. While his symptoms were those of ricin poisoning, no ricin was ever found in the pellet that was extracted from his leg. Two seeds, chewed and ingested are said to be fatal, but most people vomit and get rid of the toxin. Ducks are resistant to ricin, and need to ingest more than 80 to be fatal! In Peru the leaves are used as a tea for stomach ache, although they contain small amounts of ricin. It is called Palma Christi in early herbals because of the five pointed leaves, which schematically represent a hand. It is a monotypic genus in the spurge family. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ricinus communis L. Euphorbiaceae Castor oil plant. Palma Christi. Distribution: Mediterranean, E Africa, India. The seeds themselves are pretty, brown, bean-like usually with gold filigree markings on them, and the interior of the seed is the source of castor oil. The outer coat of the seed is the source of the poison ricin, famous (infamous) for the umbrella murder of Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. The KGB are alleged to have killed Georgi Markov, a dissident Bulgarian journalist, with a pellet containing 0.28mgm of ricin fired into his leg using a specially adapted air gun in an umbrella. While his symptoms were those of ricin poisoning, no ricin was ever found in the pellet that was extracted from his leg. Two seeds, chewed and ingested are said to be fatal, but most people vomit and get rid of the toxin. Ducks are resistant to ricin, and need to ingest more than 80 to be fatal! In Peru the leaves are used as a tea for stomach ache, although they contain small amounts of ricin. It is called Palma Christi in early herbals because of the five pointed leaves, which schematically represent a hand. It is a monotypic genus in the spurge family. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ricinus communis L. Euphorbiaceae Castor oil plant. Palma Christi. Distribution: Mediterranean, E Africa, India. The seeds themselves are pretty, brown, bean-like usually with gold filigree markings on them, and the interior of the seed is the source of castor oil. The outer coat of the seed is the source of the poison ricin, famous (infamous) for the umbrella murder of Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. The KGB are alleged to have killed Georgi Markov, a dissident Bulgarian journalist, with a pellet containing 0.28mgm of ricin fired into his leg using a specially adapted air gun in an umbrella. While his symptoms were those of ricin poisoning, no ricin was ever found in the pellet that was extracted from his leg. Two seeds, chewed and ingested are said to be fatal, but most people vomit and get rid of the toxin. Ducks are resistant to ricin, and need to ingest more than 80 to be fatal! In Peru the leaves are used as a tea for stomach ache, although they contain small amounts of ricin. It is called Palma Christi in early herbals because of the five pointed leaves, which schematically represent a hand. It is a monotypic genus in the spurge family. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ricinus communis L. Euphorbiaceae Castor oil plant. Palma Christi. Distribution: Mediterranean, E Africa, India. The seeds themselves are pretty, brown, bean-like usually with gold filigree markings on them, and the interior of the seed is the source of castor oil. The outer coat of the seed is the source of the poison ricin, famous (infamous) for the umbrella murder of Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. The KGB are alleged to have killed Georgi Markov, a dissident Bulgarian journalist, with a pellet containing 0.28mgm of ricin fired into his leg using a specially adapted air gun in an umbrella. While his symptoms were those of ricin poisoning, no ricin was ever found in the pellet that was extracted from his leg. Two seeds, chewed and ingested are said to be fatal, but most people vomit and get rid of the toxin. Ducks are resistant to ricin, and need to ingest more than 80 to be fatal! In Peru the leaves are used as a tea for stomach ache, although they contain small amounts of ricin. It is called Palma Christi in early herbals because of the five pointed leaves, which schematically represent a hand. It is a monotypic genus in the spurge family. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A bare-chested man wearing jeans open at the groin pulling a piece of grey material around his head to conceal his face; with the message: 'Wenn wir nicht mehr miteinander reden, hat AIDS schon gewonnehn ...' [If we no longer talk to each other, AIDS has already won]; an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfe Leipzig e.V. Colour lithograph by Günther and Agentur word Leipzig.
  • The muscles of the face and of the eye. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
  • The muscles of the face and of the eye. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
  • Muscles and bones of the hand. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
  • Muscles of the sole of the foot. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
  • Muscles and bones of the head and neck. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
  • A bridge over the river Aar near its source. Etching by E.A. Giraud after J.J.F. Le Barbier.
  • The muscles of the human body, fourth layer, seen from the front. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
  • The muscles of the human body, second layer, seen from the back. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
  • The muscles of the human body, first layer, seen from the back. Colour mezzotint by A. E. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1773.
  • The muscles of the human body, third layer, seen from the back; the figure balances a club with his right hand and stands before a wall of stone blocks. Colour mezzotint by L. Gautier d'Agoty after A. E. Gautier d'Agoty, 1773.
  • The muscles of the human body, third layer, seen from the back; the figure balances a club with his right hand and stands before a wall of stone blocks. Colour mezzotint by L. Gautier d'Agoty after A. E. Gautier d'Agoty, 1773.
  • Sixteen French doctors with attributes of their specialties. Colour lithograph by A. Barrère, ca. 1906.
  • Jean Baptiste Morin (Morinus). Line engraving by E. Desrochers.
  • Jean Hamon. Line engraving by E. Desrochers.
  • The Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research: staff including the director Andrew Balfour (seated centre) and his successor Charles Wenyon (seated to his left). Photograph, 1923.
  • The Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research: staff including the director Andrew Balfour (seated centre) and his successor Charles Wenyon (seated to his left). Photograph, 1923.