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  • AZT on trial : an all-day public conference to expose the marketing,advertising, and promotional strategy involved in the selling of the Wellcome Foundation's 'anti-HIV' drug AZT and the practises involved in its development, licensing, prescribing, and endorsement by AIDS agencied / SCAM.
  • AZT on trial : an all-day public conference to expose the marketing,advertising, and promotional strategy involved in the selling of the Wellcome Foundation's 'anti-HIV' drug AZT and the practises involved in its development, licensing, prescribing, and endorsement by AIDS agencied / SCAM.
  • AZT on trial : an all-day public conference to expose the marketing,advertising, and promotional strategy involved in the selling of the Wellcome Foundation's 'anti-HIV' drug AZT and the practises involved in its development, licensing, prescribing, and endorsement by AIDS agencied / SCAM.
  • AZT on trial : an all-day public conference to expose the marketing,advertising, and promotional strategy involved in the selling of the Wellcome Foundation's 'anti-HIV' drug AZT and the practises involved in its development, licensing, prescribing, and endorsement by AIDS agencied / SCAM.
  • A couple sit up in bed looking around at numerous other couples making love in rows of beds; with smaller vignettes showing someone receiving a drug injection, a needle piercing an arm and a range of condoms; one of a series of 4 AIDS education posters by the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Thailand. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Veratrum nigrum L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and, when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying-in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum - and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Veratrum album L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum -and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar periwinkle)
  • Spheres of medicine to be delivered in capsule form
  • Spheres of medicine to be delivered in capsule form
  • Taxus Baccata (Yew)
  • Taxus baccata (English yew)
  • Medical equipment
  • 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.
  • Ribonuclease A with bound inhibitor
  • Podophyllum peltatum (American mandrake). Also known as 'May apple'.
  • Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar periwinkle)
  • Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), X-ray
  • Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), X-ray
  • Gene Vis D2 : calciferoloterapia infantil ... / A. Rueff y Cia.
  • Gene Vis D2 : calciferoloterapia infantil ... / A. Rueff y Cia.
  • Gene Vis D2 : vitaminoterapia por via bucal ... / A. Rueff y Cia.
  • Gene Vis D2 : vitaminoterapia por via bucal ... / A. Rueff y Cia.
  • HMG-CoA reductase
  • Yodelca : yodo, arsenico, fosforo : indicación precisa en los estados linfáticos, escrofulosis, tuberculosis ganglionar, etc. : Aditamina, concentrado de vitaminas A y D naturales, en aceite de hidago de pescado / Laboratorio Dr. Domingo Plasencia, S.A.
  • Yodelca : yodo, arsenico, fosforo : indicación precisa en los estados linfáticos, escrofulosis, tuberculosis ganglionar, etc. : Aditamina, concentrado de vitaminas A y D naturales, en aceite de hidago de pescado / Laboratorio Dr. Domingo Plasencia, S.A.
  • This vial contains 15 years experience and incidentally Acthar Gel.
  • This vial contains 15 years experience and incidentally Acthar Gel.
  • An illustrated information sheet showing things you should know about AIDS; an advertisement by the Population and Community Development Assocation (PDA) in Thailand. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • 6-day old chick embryo viewed under a stereo microscope, LM