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  • An important consideration for the family doctor : Famicillin CAPS brand of ampicillin.
  • An important consideration for the family doctor : Famicillin CAPS brand of ampicillin.
  • An important consideration for the family doctor : Famicillin CAPS brand of ampicillin.
  • An important consideration for the family doctor : Famicillin CAPS brand of ampicillin.
  • Decayed teeth with gold caps attached.
  • Two monkeys in feathered caps smoking tobacco. Engraving after D. Teniers.
  • The heads of five women wearing an assortment of head-dresses made up of caps, feathers, flowers and jewellery. Coloured lithograph, 1864.
  • Children are rushing out of school to play on the see-saw, their books and caps are on the ground. Coloured lithograph by Stannard & Son.
  • The pope reclining forward to kiss the floor with the words in French: 'Fight AIDS: condoms not skull caps'; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: a dental hygiene parade: children parade wearing caps shaped liked teeth, bearing banners reading "We brush our teeth each day 100%" and "Progress first". Photograph, 1910/1920.
  • Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: the interior of the Francis Spring where people stand to drink water drawn from the central circular point by female attendants in white uniforms and caps. Photograph.
  • Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: the interior of the Francis Spring where people stand to drink water drawn from the central circular point by female attendants in white uniforms and caps. Photograph.
  • Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: the interior of the Natalie Spring where people stand to drink water carried up steps from a central point by female attendants wearing white uniforms and caps. Photograph.
  • Franzensbad (Františkovy Lázně), Czechoslovakia: the interior of the Natalie Spring where people stand to drink water carried up steps from a central point by female attendants wearing white uniforms and caps. Photograph.
  • A pair of obese gouty men in night-caps gaping at a fly in fear that it may land on a gouty limb. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1796, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A woman wearing a necklace bearing the words 'sex', an off-the-shoulder top and holding a paint spray can; two men in caps, one bearing the letters 'CRIPS' stand behind with graffiti and pink condoms between; an advertisement by CRIPS with the help of the Ministère de la Culture. Colour lithograph by Marko, 1993.
  • Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi Lamiaceae. Baikal skullcap. Distribution: China. There are several hundred species of Scutellaria, also known as skull caps, so correct identification is important - in particular from Scutellaria lateriflora an American species known as Blue skullcap. The latter is used as an abortifacient and to expel placenta by the Cherokee and for cleaning the throat by the Iroquois (Austin, 2004). Much vaunted as a treatment for rabies with unlikely statistics (1,400 cases cured by one doctor alone). Also as ‘antispasmodic, nervine, [for] chorea, convulsions, tetanus, tremors, delirium tremens, [and as a] diaphoretic and diuretic'. Toxicity symptoms include mental confusion, stupor, headache, vertigo, photophobia, dilated pupils, difficulty in micturition, bradycardia, tremulousness and languor, followed by wakefulness and restlessness (Milspaugh, 1974). Hutchens (1991) reported that it reduces sexual desire and was used for almost every nervous illness. Scutellaria baicalensis contains baicalin, baicalein and wogonin (European Medicines Agency, September 2010). It is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for treating inflammation, cancer, bacterial and viral infections of the lungs and gut and is one of the '50 Chinese herbs' in the lists of some authors. Scutellaria lateriflora (combined with Verbena officinalis, Passiflora incarnata and the seed of Avena sativa (oats) is licensed for use in Britain as a herbal medicine for temporary relief of mild symptoms of stress such as mild anxiety and to aid sleep, based upon traditional use only. Scutellaria baicalensis is not licensed for use in the UK (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tooth capped with gold, and the gold cap with loop.
  • A man in a lace cap. Oil painting.
  • A man in a cap. Etching after Hogarth.
  • Certificate of marriage : pursuant to the acts Anno Sexto et Septimo Gulielmi IV Regis, Cap. LXXXVI., et Anno Primo Victoriae reginae, Cap. XXII.
  • A Montenegrin man wearing national dress and a Montenegrin cap.
  • False death cap fungus (Amanita citrina): three fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1895.
  • False death cap fungus (Amanita citrina): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1893.
  • Tawny funnel cap fungus (Clitocybe flaccida): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1901.
  • Pine spike cap fungus (Chroogomphus rutilus): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1899.
  • Three shelf fungi: fruiting bodies, one showing underside of cap. Watercolour.
  • Pine spike cap fungus (Chroogomphus rutilus): one fruiting body. Watercolour, 1900.
  • Panther cap fungus (Amanita pantherina): four fruiting bodies, one sectioned. Watercolour, 1898.
  • Lucas Schacht, wearing a skull cap. Line engraving after A. van Zylvelt.