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  • Control freak! : can't remember to take my HIV drugs, can't get it together to use condoms, can't get a hard on any more, can't make it to work on Mondays, can't pay all my bills... / Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust ; designed by Eureka! Graphic Design Limited.
  • Control freak! : can't remember to take my HIV drugs, can't get it together to use condoms, can't get a hard on any more, can't make it to work on Mondays, can't pay all my bills... / Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust ; designed by Eureka! Graphic Design Limited.
  • A woman pushes a trolley down a dilapidated street in Lima, Peru representing poverty; with 4 smaller images depicting social issues associated with AIDS including packets of money in bank safes, drugs and male prostitutes; an AIDS prevention advertisement by Pecos, the Programa Especial de Control del SIDA. Colour lithograph by Juan L. Gargurevich, ca. 1995.
  • Senecio pulcher Hook.&Arn. Asteraceae Distribution: South America. It has not attracted attention as a medicinal or toxic plant but members of the genus Senecio contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids that are toxic to the liver and may cause liver cancer. A traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) product, Qianbai Biyan Pian, contains Senecio scandens which contains the unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids, senecionine and seneciphylline. This is now a banned drug. (Safety of Herbal Medicinal Products, July 2002, Medicines Control Agency). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Senecio pulcher Hook.&Arn. Asteraceae Distribution: South America. It has not attracted attention as a medicinal or toxic plant but members of the genus Senecio contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids that are toxic to the liver and may cause liver cancer. A traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) product, Qianbai Biyan Pian, contains Senecio scandens which contains the unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids, senecionine and seneciphylline. This is now a banned drug. (Safety of Herbal Medicinal Products, July 2002, Medicines Control Agency). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Solanum laciniatum Aiton Solanaceae. Kangaroo Apple. Evergreen shrub. Distribution: New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. It contains steroidal saponins that can be converted into steroids, including progesterone, oestrogens, cortisone, prednisolone etc. In 1943, Professor Russell Marker discovered a method of obtaining an unsaturated steroidal saponine, diosogenin, from Mexican yam (Dioscorea mexicana), which can easily and cheaply be converted into steroids, such as prednisone and progesterone, reducing the price of steroid production to a fraction (0.5%) of its former cost. For 20 years drug companies showed little interest, and it was only as a result of Professor Marker forming his own company, and the concerted efforts of several gynaecologists, physiologists and birth-control advocates, that the contraceptive pill was ‘born’ in 1960. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Guidelines for the management of acute paracetamol overdose in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by DACA, ca. 2000.
  • Keep healthy, happy and slim by talking Bile Beans brand pills.
  • Keep healthy, happy and slim by talking Bile Beans brand pills.
  • Keep healthy, happy and slim by talking Bile Beans brand pills.
  • Bile Beans for biliousness ... : the world's best family medicine : being purely vegetable, Bile Beans suit young & old / C.E. Fulford, Ltd.
  • Bile Beans for biliousness ... : the world's best family medicine : being purely vegetable, Bile Beans suit young & old / C.E. Fulford, Ltd.
  • Scour or diarrhoea mixture for calves : two table-spoonfuls to be given night and morning : also the best remedy for diarrhoea in pigs... / Alfred Parker.
  • Bile Beans keep you healthy, happy and slim ... keep you fit & well and are excellent for constipation, headaches and biliousness.
  • Bile Beans for inner health & slimness : take them regularly at bedtime ... : keep you fit and well and are excellent for constipation, headaches and biliousness.
  • Bile Beans for inner health & slimness : take them regularly at bedtime ... : keep you fit and well and are excellent for constipation, headaches and biliousness.
  • Bile Beans keep you healthy, happy and slim ... keep you fit & well and are excellent for constipation, headaches and biliousness.
  • Laurence's cure for red water in cattle : this remedy has been used with the greatest success for more than 200 years.
  • Dog pills : tonic : dose...
  • Roup powder : for poultry and fowls : directions for use...
  • Drying-off Drench.
  • A cleansing drench and certain restorative for cows, after bad calvings : to be given fasting, in three pints of gruel, sweetened with a quarter of a pound of treacle or brown sugar.
  • Fowl specific : an invaluable and almost universal remedy and prevention against the diseases and disorders most prevalent amongst fowls...
  • Curative drench for cattle : compounded on the lines of the famous Cheshire Red Bottle...
  • Superior White Oils : for horses & cattle.
  • The cattle colic drink.
  • Cold & chill mixture : an effective cure for all udder complaints in cattle and sheep.
  • Alterative mixture for dogs : highly recommended by leading dog owners and sportsmen as the finest preparation for purifying the blood, destroying and preventing worms, skin eruptions, etc. ...
  • Mycolactine : a synergetic combination of bile extract, yeast, and lactic ferments.
  • Mycolactine : a synergetic combination of bile extract, yeast, and lactic ferments.