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  • Penicillin chewing gum A&H / maintains prolonged local concentration.
  • [Leaflet advertising Ricqles peppermint products (sweets, spray, alcohol, chewing gum etc.)].
  • [Leaflet advertising Ricqles peppermint products (sweets, spray, alcohol, chewing gum etc.)].
  • [Leaflet advertising Ricqles peppermint products (sweets, spray, alcohol, chewing gum etc.)].
  • [Leaflet advertising Ricqles peppermint products (sweets, spray, alcohol, chewing gum etc.)].
  • [Leaflet advertising Ricqles peppermint products (sweets, spray, alcohol, chewing gum etc.)].
  • A baby's dummy (pacifier) and a condom beside a packet of Stimorol chewing gum representing useful products all made from 'rubber'; advertising condoms. Colour lithograph.
  • Two men wearing dresses in a garden: one is handing the other sticks of chewing gum as an alternative to gossip. Colour process print, 1915.
  • Two men wearing dresses in a garden: one is handing the other sticks of chewing gum as an alternative to gossip. Colour process print, 1915.
  • [Leaflet advertising Rio Trading Company (Health) Ltd.'s Rio Amazon Guarana tablets, chewing gum and cereal bars : Make more out of every day of your life.].
  • [Leaflet advertising Rio Trading Company (Health) Ltd.'s Rio Amazon Guarana tablets, chewing gum and cereal bars : Make more out of every day of your life.].
  • [Leaflet advertising Rio Trading Company (Health) Ltd.'s Rio Amazon Guarana tablets, chewing gum and cereal bars : Make more out of every day of your life.].
  • [Leaflet advertising Rio Trading Company (Health) Ltd.'s Rio Amazon Guarana tablets, chewing gum and cereal bars : Make more out of every day of your life.].
  • [Leaflet advertising Rio Trading Company (Health) Ltd.'s Rio Amazon Guarana tablets, chewing gum and cereal bars : Make more out of every day of your life.].
  • A comparative advertisement for the benefits of Stimorol chewing gum and condoms featuring a figure standing far left blowing a bubble with one foot resting against the picture border; he looks out at a landscape featuring an eye, a lake, a volcano spurting out hearts with two people running towards each other, and a pair of lips; with a packet of 'stimorol' chewing gum next to a condom in the sky. Colour lithograph.
  • Silphium perfoliatum L. Asteraceae Indian Cup. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) records that another species, S. compositum, was used by Native Americans to produce a chewing gum from the dried sap of the roots, and Native American medicinal uses for 'Indian Cup' are probably referrable to S. compositum and not S. perfoliatum. Silphium perfoliatum contains enzymes that inhibit trypsin and chymotrypsin which gives it resistance to fungal, bacterial and insect attacks. Male gall wasps (Antisotrophus rufus) alter the chemistry of the plant to enable them to locate females, making it a 'signpost' plant. The gall wasp lays its eggs in the stem of Silphium laciniatum, to provide food for the larva on emergence, and the galls containing a male or a female wasp will cause the plant to give off a different chemical odour. Emerging male wasps can search for female wasps, which emerge later, by locating this chemical fragrance which acts as a sex pheromone proxy (Tooker et al Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Nov 26
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae. Goatsbeard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae Goats beard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae. Goatsbeard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Allen & Hanburys Ltd : manufacturing chemists and makers of surgical instruments.
  • Lythrum salicaria (Purple loosestrife)