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  • Milk is food and the best food : but be sure of clean supplies by placing your order with / Riley's Dairies Ltd.
  • Prevention of food poisoning by covering hand infections with a plaster, avoiding touching food, and keeping hands clean. Colour lithograph, ca. 1963.
  • Ten golden rules of health : No.3 explained : ...the importance of a clean intestine / by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, Bart.
  • Milk is food and the best food : but be sure of clean supplies by placing your order with / Riley's Dairies Ltd.
  • How to clean needles and syringes; twelfth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • The Christ Child cleans the believer's heart with a hand-held mop, assisted and venerated by angels. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • The Christ Child cleans the believer's heart with a hand-held mop, assisted and venerated by angels. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • A soldier in uniform is having his boots cleaned in the street by a man kneeling in a box. Coloured aquatint with etching.
  • Prevention of food poisoning by covering hand infections with a plaster, avoiding touching food, and keeping hands clean. Colour lithograph, ca. 1963 (?).
  • 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.
  • Clean well trained children saluting the Red Flag, with scenes showing the need for cleanliness and hygiene among Chinese children. Colour lithograph, 196- (?).
  • A hand which has lost two fingers, owing to attempts to clean dangerous machines while they are running. Colour lithograph by Jacob Jansma, 1949.
  • A Dragor water pump for raising water from a well, and uses of abundant clean water; advertising Dragor water pumps. Colour lithograph by P. Igert, 1935.
  • Men washing themselves in a public or factory bathroom to prevent typhus, and having clothes cleaned in an industrial cleanser. Colour lithograph by V.S., 1921.
  • Men washing themselves in a public or factory bathroom to prevent typhus, and having clothes cleaned in an industrial cleanser. Colour lithograph by V.S., 1921.
  • Perfectly clean & choicest quality foods for cage birds : scientifically prepared & blended : ask and see that you are supplied with "Spratt's" / Spratt's Patent, Ltd.
  • Perfectly clean & choicest quality foods for cage birds : scientifically prepared & blended : ask and see that you are supplied with "Spratt's" / Spratt's Patent, Ltd.
  • This is a genuine halogen hob : it cooks by light, is easy to clean, and has the lowest simmer available : beware of imitations / Tricity Bendix.
  • A girl filling a bucket at a water-outlet, whle a boy is opening up a fish (to clean it?). Soft ground etching by W.H. Pyne, 1813.
  • A toddler in a walking frame is kicking bottles of sedatives, representing the preference for clean bottle-feeding over pharmaceutical sedatives for infants. Colour process print after F. Poulbot.
  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • The tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria); advising citizens to clean up water-holding rubbish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1928.
  • For pastries, trifles, fruit dishes, cereals, savouries, ices... Soreen milk-whipping compound : recipes : always use a clean dry spoon to take Soreen from carton / John B. Sorenson & Co. Ltd.
  • For pastries, trifles, fruit dishes, cereals, savouries, ices... Soreen milk-whipping compound : recipes : always use a clean dry spoon to take Soreen from carton / John B. Sorenson & Co. Ltd.
  • For pastries, trifles, fruit dishes, cereals, savouries, ices... Soreen milk-whipping compound : recipes : always use a clean dry spoon to take Soreen from carton / John B. Sorenson & Co. Ltd.
  • Parodies of pictures at the Royal Academy: men and women eating and drinking, a soldier's boots being cleaned, a woman tending to a child and figures hanging over a line. Wood engraving.
  • For pastries, trifles, fruit dishes, cereals, savouries, ices... Soreen milk-whipping compound : recipes : always use a clean dry spoon to take Soreen from carton / John B. Sorenson & Co. Ltd.
  • Drawing of the 1918 Influenza: Lymph sinus, some of the cells shown in their protoplasm - small clean spaces containing two, three or four fine deep brown spherules - shadows of colon bacilli
  • Have you or your family ever been worried about the dangers of pesticides on your fruit or vegetables? : Aloe Vera Clean : the insecticide and pesticide remover for fruit and vegetables / Vita Natura.