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  • Public health: drainage and sewerage
  • A 'Bheestie', an Indian official who works to 'supply water and drainage
  • Agriculture: equipment for providing better drainage of fields. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1803.
  • Agriculture: a plan for better drainage of fields. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1803.
  • Boring operation to connect the drainage system near Grays Inn Lane to the main sewage system. Wood engraving.
  • Boring operation to connect the drainage system near Grays Inn Lane to the main sewage system. Wood engraving.
  • A compound fracture in the arm caused by a bullet, with a drainage tube in place: x-ray. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Furness Abbey: the main drain
  • Public Health: Drains and Sewerage, Rome
  • Bootlace threaded with corks, used to drain milk
  • Bootlace threaded with corks, used to drain milk
  • Bootlace threaded with corks, used to drain milk
  • Drain running through a street in Bathurst, Gambia. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Agriculture: ponds, and pumping machines to drain them. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1825.
  • Nettuno, Italy: a long, narrow drain (to aid mosquito control) in a field. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • Nettuno, Italy: a square brick drain (to aid mosquito control) in a field. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • Toro Point, Panama Canal Zone: a muddy drain with dense vegetation on either side. Photograph, 1911.
  • Nettuno, Italy: an earthenware drain (to aid mosquito control) leading to a muddy pool. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • Shops in Freetown, Sierra Leone: wooden huts with food displayed outside, over open drains. Photograph, ca. 1911.
  • Nettuno, Italy: a square stone drain (to aid mosquito control) leading to a muddy pool. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • Nettuno, Italy: a drain made of mortar (to aid mosquito control) leading to a muddy pool. Photograph, 1918/1937 (?).
  • Euphorbia milii Des Moul. Euphorbiaceae. Crown of Thorns - so called because of its very spiny stems. Distribution: Madagascar. The latex contains a copper-containing amine oxidase, a lectin, lipase, peroxidase, and a diamine oxidase. In vitro the latex is synergistic with ketoconazole against Candida albicans (thrush). All Euphorbia have a toxic white latex, and in Europe this has been used as a folk remedy to treat warts. It can cause skin allergies and the smoke from burning them is toxic. the genus named for Euphorbus (fl. circa 10 BC – 20 AD), the Greek physician to the Berber King Juba II (c. 50 BC – 23 AD) of Numidia, Euphorbia milii is one of the tropical spurges, with fierce, cactus-like spines, grown as a house plant. The sap of spurges is used in folk medicine for treating warts (not very effective), and, historically, as a purgative - the word spurge being derived from the French word for purgation. The sap (probably dried) was administered inside a fig because it is so corrosive that it would otherwise burn the mouth and oesophagus – a technique used today, rather more subtly, with ‘enteric coated’ medications. The sap contains a potential anti-leukaemic chemical, lasiodoplin, and is also used in drainage ditches to kill the snails which carry the parasitic trematode which causes fasciolaris. It does not kill the fish. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Brain drain? : depression, mood swings, risk-taking, mid-week blues, rage, lethargy, low self-esteem, neglect, emotional... / Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust ; designed by Eureka! Graphic Design Limited.
  • Brain drain? : depression, mood swings, risk-taking, mid-week blues, rage, lethargy, low self-esteem, neglect, emotional... / Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust ; designed by Eureka! Graphic Design Limited.
  • A man praying to the Virgin of the Seven Sorrows and a monastic saint to intercede with Christ to save a child trapped beneath a drain-grid, 1727. Oil painting by an Italian painter, 1727.
  • A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
  • A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
  • Dangers to health : a pictorial guide to domestic sanitary defects / by T. Pridgin Teale.
  • Dangers to health : a pictorial guide to domestic sanitary defects / by T. Pridgin Teale.
  • Dangers to health : a pictorial guide to domestic sanitary defects / by T. Pridgin Teale.