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  • I can be invisible and damage your health : I'm a sexually transmitted infection : see to it / CHAPS.
  • I can be invisible and damage your health : I'm a sexually transmitted infection : see to it / CHAPS.
  • Earthquake damage to fortifications, with three figures in the foreground, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
  • Lucknow, India: the Chutter Munzil, showing damage caused by an explosion during the Indian Rebellion. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
  • Lucknow, India: the gateway to the Lucknow Residency, showing damage caused during the Indian Rebellion. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
  • Lucknow, India: the gateway of the second Emambara showing damage done during the Indian Rebellion. Photograph by F. Beato, c. 1858.
  • Lucknow, India: the Secundra Bagh breach and gateway, showing damage done during the Indian Rebellion. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
  • Lucknow, India: the Lucknow Residency in ruins due to damage caused during the Indian Rebellion. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
  • Lucknow, India: an emambara showing damage caused during the Indian Rebellion; soldiers with fighting equipment in the foreground. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1858.
  • Lucknow, India: the Lucknow Residency in ruins due to damage caused during the Indian Rebellion: an entrance gate. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
  • Lucknow, India: the Lucknow Residency in ruins due to damage caused during the Indian Rebellion: the banqueting hall. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
  • Lucknow, India: the Lucknow Residency in ruins: gateway and banqueting room, showing damage caused during the Indian Rebellion. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
  • Lucknow, India: the tomb of Shahadut Allee in the Kaiser Bagh palace, showing damage done during the Indian Rebellion. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
  • If medical experts had their way... : table salt : national health warning : too much salt can seriously damage your health... / Larkhall Natural Health Ltd.
  • If medical experts had their way... : table salt : national health warning : too much salt can seriously damage your health... / Larkhall Natural Health Ltd.
  • Lucknow, India: the Secundra Bagh showing damage done during the Indian Rebellion; skeletons of murdered Indian rebels lie on the ground. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
  • Lucknow, India: the tomb of Khursheed Zadi in the Kaiser Bagh Palace complex, showing damage done during the Indian Rebellion of 1858. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
  • Lucknow, India: the Secundra Bagh interior showing damage done during the Indian Rebellion; skeletons of murdered Indian rebels lie on the ground. Photograph by Felice Beato, ca. 1858.
  • I can be invisible and damage your health : I'm a sexually transmitted infection : see to it : sexual health (GUM) services in and around London / CHAPS, Community HIV and AIDS Prevention Strategy.
  • I can be invisible and damage your health : I'm a sexually transmitted infection : see to it : sexual health (GUM) services in and around London / CHAPS, Community HIV and AIDS Prevention Strategy.
  • What am I? : I'm free 'n' easy and fun to pick up, I'm easily passed on, I can be invisible and damage your health : I'm a sexually transmitted infection ... / CHAPS, Community HIV and AIDS Prevention Strategy.
  • What am I? : I'm free 'n' easy and fun to pick up, I'm easily passed on, I can be invisible and damage your health : I'm a sexually transmitted infection ... / CHAPS, Community HIV and AIDS Prevention Strategy.
  • A syringe and a condom with a warning to always use a new syringe when shooting up since the damage caused by drugs is even more serious since the onset of AIDS; advertisement for the Drogues Info Service and SIDA Info Service by the Ministère de la Santé Publique et de l'Assurance Maladie. Colour lithograph.
  • This policy of assurance witnesseth, that ... ha... paid to the Phoenix Assurance Company of London, the amount of premium and duty stated below as the present payment, and having agreed to pay, or cause to be paid to the said company on the day of expiration of this policy, for insurance from loss or damage by fire ...
  • This policy of assurance witnesseth, that ... ha... paid to the Phoenix Assurance Company of London, the amount of premium and duty stated below as the present payment, and having agreed to pay, or cause to be paid to the said company on the day of expiration of this policy, for insurance from loss or damage by fire ...
  • This policy of assurance witnesseth, that ... ha... paid to the Phoenix Assurance Company of London, the amount of premium and duty stated below as the present payment, and having agreed to pay, or cause to be paid to the said company on the day of expiration of this policy, for insurance from loss or damage by fire ...
  • Allium schoenoprasum L. Alliaceae. Chives. Bulbour perennial herb. 'schoenoprasm' means 'rush leek' in Greek, referring to the narrow leaves. Distribution: Asia, Europe and North America. Leaves used as a garnish on cooked food and in salads. However like others in Boraginaceae it contains the pyrrolizidine alkaloid cynoglossine which causes liver damage. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Blister pack of chloroquine antimalarial tablets. Chloroquine is used to prevent and treat the infectious disease malaria. Malaria is caused by parasites (Plasmodium species) which enter the blood when inefcted mosquitoes feed. Side effects of chloroquine include vomitting, nausea and headache. Retinopathy (damage to the retina) is a rare eye condition associated with long term use over many years. Drug resistance against antimalarials is increasing.
  • Aspirin crystals. Aspirin was originally extracted from willow bark but is actually produced in all plants as a defence mechanism in response to damage or attack. Much higher levels are therefore found in less than perfect fruit and vegetables. Aspirin is used to treat pain, reduce fever and to prevent heart disease and cancer. Some people think it should be reclassified as a vitamin.
  • Lathyrus vernus (L.)Bernh. Papilionaceae previously Orobus vernus L. (Linnaeus, 1753) Spring vetchling. Distribution: Europe to Siberia. The seeds of several Lathyrus species are toxic, and when eaten cause a condition called lathyrism. The chemical diaminoproprionic acid in the seeds causes paralysis, spinal cord damage, aortic aneurysm, due to poisoning of mitochondria causing cell death. Occurs where food crops are contaminated by Lathyrus plants or where it is eaten as a 'famine food' when no other food is available. It is the Orobus sylvaticus purpureus vernus of Bauhin (1671) and Orobus sylvaticus angustifolius of Parkinson (1640) - who records that country folk had no uses for it. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.