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  • Eagle tavern, City Road : Easter Monday, and during the week, to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel. Admittance sixpence only.
  • Eagle tavern, City Road : Easter Monday, and during the week, to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel. Admittance sixpence only.
  • The Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox congregation of the Holy Grave in Jerusalem distributes the Holy Light at Easter; members of the congregation fight for it. Etching after B. Picart, 1730.
  • Members of the Greek Orthodox congregation of the Holy Grave in Jerusalem waiting at Easter for a good position for the arrival of the Holy Light and Lighting. Etching after B. Picart, 1730.
  • Polygonum bistorta L. Polygonaceae Bistort, snakeweed, Easter Ledges. Distribution: Europe, N & W Asia. Culpeper: “... taken inwardly resist pestilence and poison, helps ruptures, and bruises, stays fluxes, vomiting and immoderate flowing of the terms in women, helps inflammations and soreness of the mouth, and fastens loose teeth, being bruised and boiled in white wine and the mouth washed with it.” In modern herbal medicine it is still used for a similar wide variety of internal conditions, but it can also be cooked and eaten as a vegetable. The use to relieve toothache, applied as a paste to the affected tooth, seems to have been widespread. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ascension from the East
  • Opium den, East end
  • East London made easy : sexual health services for gay men in East London / produced by East London and the City Health Promotion ; illustration © A. Magill.
  • East London made easy : sexual health services for gay men in East London / produced by East London and the City Health Promotion ; illustration © A. Magill.
  • East Coast fever parasite/cell division
  • East Coast fever parasite/cell division
  • East Coast fever parasite/cell division
  • East Coast fever parasite/cell division
  • East Coast fever parasite/cell division
  • East Coast fever parasite/cell division
  • East Coast fever parasite/cell division
  • East Coast fever parasite/cell division
  • Bagrami pavilion, east of Kabul.
  • Splints from Somaliland, East Africa.
  • East London made easy : HIV services for gay men in East London / produced by East London and the City Health Promotion ; Declan Buckley Design ; A. Magill illustration.
  • East London made easy : HIV services for gay men in East London / produced by East London and the City Health Promotion ; Declan Buckley Design ; A. Magill illustration.
  • East London made easy : Sexual health services for gay men in East London / produced by East London and the City Health Promotion ; Declan Buckley Design ; A. Magill illustration.
  • East London made easy : Sexual health services for gay men in East London / produced by East London and the City Health Promotion ; Declan Buckley Design ; A. Magill illustration.
  • Niche in east wall of Fosse Temple
  • Niche in east wall of Fosse Temple
  • Island of Deshima, Dutch East India Company
  • Positive life : positively social / Positive East.
  • Positive life : positively social / Positive East.
  • Abbey of Moveruela, Spain, South East view.
  • Highbury College, London: north-east view. Wood engraving.