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  • Firda : canned fish / Firda Canning Co.
  • Firda : canned fish / Firda Canning Co.
  • Meals from canned meat or fish / Stork Margarine Cookery Service.
  • Meals from canned meat or fish / Stork Margarine Cookery Service.
  • Two line-drawn fishing boats with large fishing nets capturing a decorative circular object (the HIV virus structure) in between a sequence of illustrations demonstrating how the HIV virus can and can't be transmitted; an AIDS warning issued by the Gipuzkoako Hies Kontrako Elkarte Hiritarra Asociacion Ciudadana Anti-SIDA de Gipuzkoa. Colour lithograph by Xabi, 1993.
  • Ragworms are segmented worms with long, flattened bodies, consisting of many segments. Each segment has a pair of parapods, or swimming legs. At the head end (shown in ths image) they have a toothed proboscis, four eyes, and two pairs of antennae. Ragworms are found predominantly in muddy shorelines and often used as fishing bait. They can live up to 3 years. Some species are considered an active predator, sifting through the mud and sand for small ocean creatures, others exist as scavengers.
  • Ragworms are segmented worms with long, flattened bodies, consisting of many segments. Each segment has a pair of parapods, or swimming legs. At the head end (shown in ths image) they have a toothed proboscis, four eyes, and two pairs of antennae. Ragworms are found predominantly in muddy shorelines and often used as fishing bait. They can live up to 3 years. Some species are considered an active predator, sifting through the mud and sand for small ocean creatures, others exist as scavengers.
  • Ragworms are segmented worms with long, flattened bodies, consisting of many segments. Each segment has a pair of parapods, or swimming legs. These parapods are covered with bristles called chaete and are used for crawling and swimming, these structures are clearly shown in this image. Ragworms are found predominantly in muddy shorelines and often used as fishing bait. They can live up to 3 years. Some species are considered an active predator, sifting through the mud and sand for small ocean creatures, others exist as scavengers.
  • Euphorbia milii Des Moul. Euphorbiaceae. Crown of Thorns - so called because of its very spiny stems. Distribution: Madagascar. The latex contains a copper-containing amine oxidase, a lectin, lipase, peroxidase, and a diamine oxidase. In vitro the latex is synergistic with ketoconazole against Candida albicans (thrush). All Euphorbia have a toxic white latex, and in Europe this has been used as a folk remedy to treat warts. It can cause skin allergies and the smoke from burning them is toxic. the genus named for Euphorbus (fl. circa 10 BC – 20 AD), the Greek physician to the Berber King Juba II (c. 50 BC – 23 AD) of Numidia, Euphorbia milii is one of the tropical spurges, with fierce, cactus-like spines, grown as a house plant. The sap of spurges is used in folk medicine for treating warts (not very effective), and, historically, as a purgative - the word spurge being derived from the French word for purgation. The sap (probably dried) was administered inside a fig because it is so corrosive that it would otherwise burn the mouth and oesophagus – a technique used today, rather more subtly, with ‘enteric coated’ medications. The sap contains a potential anti-leukaemic chemical, lasiodoplin, and is also used in drainage ditches to kill the snails which carry the parasitic trematode which causes fasciolaris. It does not kill the fish. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Conserves "Louis Levesque", Nantes... : fabriques de conserves de poissons et de légumes... / Levesque & Cie.
  • Conserves "Louis Levesque", Nantes... : fabriques de conserves de poissons et de légumes... / Levesque & Cie.
  • Leckermäulchen Snack Fischkonserven / Leckermäulchen.
  • Deutscher Kaviar = German caviar = Caviar allemand : 777 / Kaviar-Christensen.
  • Deutscher Kaviar = German caviar = Caviar allemand : 777 / Kaviar-Christensen.
  • Ocean Girl brand fancy Norway kipper snacks : fillets of kippered herrings : product of Norway : net weight 3 1/4 ozs / packed by Hoem Canning Export Co.
  • This is the age of plastics and in plastic barrels and boxes we are leading the way... / Yzermans & Co.
  • The wholesome herring / by Janet Bond.
  • The wholesome herring / by Janet Bond.
  • The wholesome herring / by Janet Bond.
  • The wholesome herring / by Janet Bond.
  • A fisherwoman blown by the wind; representing Pisces in the astrological year. Lithograph after S. Tresca after L. Lafitte.
  • Above, an anabas seen from the side; middle, cross-sections of the heads and gills of two fishes; below, a ophicephalus seen from the side. Stipple engraving by Teillard after P.L. Oudart.
  • A woman with shears holding a sheep; representing June. Engraving.
  • Mouth parts of a Tench fish, photograph
  • Stingray or skate (Batoidea) fossilised tooth
  • Ask for Fray Bentos soups, meat & fish pastes and enjoy quality.
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Raw fish
  • Shark or ray fossilised tooth
  • Sailors keeping well by taking "Neverill" remedy. Colour lithograph by R.A., ca. 1900.
  • Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth