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  • National AIDS prevention campaign in Chile
  • A machi, or medicine woman, Araucania, Chile.
  • The copper and silver mines of Collahuasi, Chile
  • Processing of copper in Chile. Lithograph by G. Scharf, 1824, after P. Schmidtmeyer.
  • A crowd of people representing the fact that over 13,000 people are at risk of HIV in Chile; issued by the Ministerio de Salud, Chile as part of a National AIDS prevention campaign. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • Travellers in Chile arrive at a village by night. Coloured lithograph by G. Scharf after P. Schmidtmeyer.
  • Two travellers and a patient on a stretcher travel towards the baths at Cauquenes, Chile. Coloured lithograph by G. Scharf.
  • [Leaflet advertising the exhibition of The Petrified Man from Tucapel, Chile, in the Trance Room of the Royal Aquarium, London].
  • An Araucanian woman in Chile carrying a sleeping child on her back in a wooden carrier, supported by a strap around her head. Photograph, ca. 1913.
  • Tigridia pavonia (L.f.)DC. Iridaceae Distribution: Peru. These colourful, tulip-like flowers were named by De Candolle for Joseph (José) Pavón Jiménez (1754-1840), the Spanish pharmacist/botanist who accompanied Hipólito Ruiz and Joseph Dombey on their epic botanising in Peru and Chile (1777-1788) in search of quinine and medicinal plants. On the 8th April 1777, King Carlos III of Spain gave permission for the three botanists and two artists to travel from Spain to America to study the flora of Peru and Chile, then Spanish dominions. Initially around Lima, and then further afield, they collected plants which their artists painted
  • Lobelia tupa L Campanulaceae Tabaco del Diablo [Devil's tobacco]. Distribution: Central Chile. Dried leaves are smoked as a hallucinogen by the Mapuchu Indians of Chile. It was also used as a respiratory stimulant. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The physical and moral condition of the chil
  • Eucryphia glutinosa (Poepp. & Endlich.) Baill. Eucryphiaceae. Santo sour cherry. Woodland tree. Distribution: Ancient genus from Gondwanaland. Native of Chile, other species being found in eastern coastal Australia. It is now rare in its habitat, since it was much used as a timber tree. Australian aboriginals have used leatherwood (Eucryphia lucida) as an antiseptic and styptic. A recent investigation by the Australian Government Rural Industries and Development Corporation (B R D’Arcy, 2005) finds that leatherwood honey is rich in phenolic acids that possess some antibacterial and anti-oxidant activity. These natural products have been proposed as preservers of freshness in foodstuffs - a possible alternative to the synthetics currently used.
  • Would you rather be slicing chillies? / Birds Eye.
  • Would you rather be slicing chillies? / Birds Eye.
  • Fuchsia magellanica Lam. Onagraceae. Hardy fuchsia. Semi-hardy shrub. Distribution: Mountainous regions of Chile and Argentina where they are called 'Chilco' by the indigenous people, the Mapuche. The genus was discovered by Charles Plumier in Hispaniola in 1696/7, and named by him for Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), German Professor of Medicine, whose illustrated herbal, De Historia Stirpium (1542) attempted the identification of the plants in the Classical herbals. It also contained the first accounts of maize, Zea mays, and chilli peppers, Capsicum annuum, then recently introduced from Latin America. He was also the first person to publish an account and woodcuts of foxgloves, Digitalis purpurea and D. lutea. The book contains 500 descriptions and woodcuts of medicinal plants, arranged in alphabetical order, and relied heavily on the De Materia Medica (c. AD 70) of Dioscorides. He was a powerful influence on the herbals of Dodoens, and thence to Gerard, L’Escluse and Henry Lyte. A small quarto edition appeared in 1551, and a two volume facsimile of the 1542 edition with commentary and selected translations from the Latin was published by Stanford Press in 1999. The original woodcuts were passed from printer to printer and continued in use for 232 years (Schinz, 1774). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Daoyin technique to cure chills and fevers, C19 Chinese MS
  • Jones' sovereign remedy : for cows, with milk fever, chills, udder ill, and inflammation of the lungs : for horses, with chills, gripes, colics, and inflammation ... / R.M. Jones.
  • The Pocket Instra. impercetible in a pocket, and prevents chills : warmth is life.
  • Cold & chill mixture : an effective cure for all udder complaints in cattle and sheep.
  • Udderine : a wonderful remedy for udder ill, milk fever, garget, chills, fever and inflammations of all kinds, in horses, cattle & sheep ...
  • Weak after illness? : He needs Brand's : In colds, chills, measles, influenza, chickenpox- all children's complaints, give Brand's chicken or beef Essence : 2/3, 2/9, 3/-.
  • Bile Beans for biliousness : cure indigestion, headache, constipation, dyspepsia, piles and female ailments ...influenza, liver chill, colds, rheumatism, sciatica, gout and all liver troubles / The Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
  • Bile Beans for biliousness : cure indigestion, headache, constipation, dyspepsia, piles and female ailments ...influenza, liver chill, colds, rheumatism, sciatica, gout and all liver troubles / The Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
  • Bile Beans for biliousness : cure indigestion, headache, constipation, dyspepsia, piles and female ailments ...influenza, liver chill, colds, rheumatism, sciatica, gout and all liver troubles / The Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
  • Bile Beans for biliousness : cure indigestion, headache, constipation, dyspepsia, piles and female ailments ...influenza, liver chill, colds, rheumatism, sciatica, gout and all liver troubles / The Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
  • Pine's Devonshire oils, for cattle : worms in sheep, ewes' and cows' udders, black udder, scour in lambs, inflammations, gripes, chills, galls, sprains, swellings, broken knees, &c. : prepared & sold wholesale & retail by the proprietor / R.J. Joint.
  • A Chilean wine label illustrated with a large house and vineyard. Engraving, 19th century.
  • A Chilean wine label illustrated with a large house and vineyard. Engraving, 19th century.
  • An apparatus for obtaining fresh water, Antofagasta. Halftone.