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  • Betnovate : contact dermatitis cleared in seven days with Betnovate Cream.
  • Betnovate : contact dermatitis cleared in seven days with Betnovate Cream.
  • Betnovate : contact dermatitis cleared in seven days with Betnovate Cream.
  • Betnovate : contact dermatitis cleared in seven days with Betnovate Cream.
  • Betnovate : contact dermatitis cleared in seven days with Betnovate Cream.
  • Acacia melanoxylon R.Br. Mimosaceae. Australian Blackwood. Tree. Distribution: Eastern Australia. Tree. Invasive weed in South Africa, Portugal, California. Local uses: analgesic. Causes allergic contact dermatitis due to 2,6,dimethoxybenzoquinone. Pinnate leaves of young plant drop off and phylloclades are formed instead. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Cynoglossum officinale L. Boraginaceae. Houndstongue. Distribution: Europe. Culpeper (1650) writes: “... being roasted and laid to the fundament, helps the haemorrhoids. It is also good against burnings and scaldings.” It contains hepatocarcinogenic pyrrolizidine alkaloids and while people are known to eat the young leaves as a vegetable, this is inadvisable. The whole plant is hairy and may cause contact dermatitis. The use of herbal remedies, which contain these alkaloids, by the Bantu of southern Africa correlates with their high incidence of tumours of the liver and pancreas. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Acacia melanoxolon
  • Daffodils (Narcissus), x-ray
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half
  • A cathedral tower, advertising an AIDS benefit performance of T.S. Eliot's 'Murder in the cathedral' in Hong Kong. Colour lithograph by Ulrikka S. Gernes and Dermat Tatlow, ca. 1995, for AIDS Concern.