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  • Our national church : the aegis of liberty, equality, fraternity : a house divided against itself?.
  • Spermatozoa approaching an egg; representing equality between men and women, and the undesirability of inequality. Colour lithograph, 2004.
  • Two working-class men wearing top hats and moustaches, imitating the fashions of the upper classes, rejoice in their new-found equality in fashion. Wood engraving after John Leech, 1854.
  • A French supporter of the Paris Commune prefers to throw an incendiary bomb to advance equality, while a British workman prefers to smoke his pipe in the interests of liberty. Wood engraving by J. Swain, ca. 1871, after Sir J. Tenniel.
  • Hydraulics: a pressure equalizing device. Engraving by Eastgate.
  • A young doctor confides in his equally fashionably dressed friend. Coloured photolithograph.
  • Is yours up to it? : Not all condoms are created equal. Some are stronger than others ... / Health Education Authority.
  • Wehen Kreuz, double cross, two crosses with equal arms, but one arm is common tothem both. Silver inlaid with malachite. Worn during labour.
  • Parents talking to their children about sexuality: sexual health education in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ben Nyan'oma for the Young Men as Equal Partners (YMEP) Project, ca. 2000.
  • Natreen : Süsse ohne Kalorien : Inhalt: 2 Stc̈k süssen... = Natreen calorie-free sweetener : Contents: 2 tablets equal in sweetness to 2 tsp. sugar / Drugofa GmbH.
  • Natreen : Süsse ohne Kalorien : Inhalt: 2 Stc̈k süssen... = Natreen calorie-free sweetener : Contents: 2 tablets equal in sweetness to 2 tsp. sugar / Drugofa GmbH.
  • 251, Regent-St. nearly opposite the Argyll Rooms : to be seen daily, the beautiful Giraffe Spotted Girl ... Miss Fabian is most curiously spotted, equal to the giraffe ...
  • 251, Regent-St. nearly opposite the Argyll Rooms : to be seen daily, the beautiful Giraffe Spotted Girl ... Miss Fabian is most curiously spotted, equal to the giraffe ...
  • A drunken couple stagger towards their lodging: a warning against excessive drinking in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ben Nyan'oma for the Young Men as Equal Partners (YMEP) Project, ca. 2000.
  • A crowd of people appearing to wait with the message 'All are equal before the [HIV] virus'; an advertisement for the AIDS helpline by the Steirische AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph after Heimo Binder.
  • The yellow and green silhouettes of abstract figures with the statement 'Equal rights shared responsibility' representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day on 1st December 1995 by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • A condom on top of a bottle representing the risk of having sex when drunk; advertisement of the High Equals High Risk Campaign by AIDS: A Positive Co-ordinated Community Response Society of Jasper. Colour lithograph by Daniel Riitano, 1993.
  • Account of the reparation of Dr. Pitcairne's monument in the Grayfriars Churchyard at Edinburgh, with a list of medical practitioners residing in Edinburgh, who agreed to pay each an equal share of the expence of that reparation. December 25 1800.
  • Account of the reparation of Dr. Pitcairne's monument in the Grayfriars Churchyard at Edinburgh, with a list of medical practitioners residing in Edinburgh, who agreed to pay each an equal share of the expence of that reparation. December 25 1800.
  • Account of the reparation of Dr. Pitcairne's monument in the Grayfriars Churchyard at Edinburgh, with a list of medical practitioners residing in Edinburgh, who agreed to pay each an equal share of the expence of that reparation. December 25 1800.
  • Account of the reparation of Dr. Pitcairne's monument in the Grayfriars Churchyard at Edinburgh, with a list of medical practitioners residing in Edinburgh, who agreed to pay each an equal share of the expence of that reparation. December 25 1800.
  • Account of the reparation of Dr. Pitcairne's monument in the Grayfriars Churchyard at Edinburgh, with a list of medical practitioners residing in Edinburgh, who agreed to pay each an equal share of the expence of that reparation. December 25 1800.
  • Account of the reparation of Dr. Pitcairne's monument in the Grayfriars Churchyard at Edinburgh, with a list of medical practitioners residing in Edinburgh, who agreed to pay each an equal share of the expence of that reparation. December 25 1800.
  • Account of the reparation of Dr. Pitcairne's monument in the Grayfriars Churchyard at Edinburgh, with a list of medical practitioners residing in Edinburgh, who agreed to pay each an equal share of the expence of that reparation. December 25 1800.
  • Account of the reparation of Dr. Pitcairne's monument in the Grayfriars Churchyard at Edinburgh, with a list of medical practitioners residing in Edinburgh, who agreed to pay each an equal share of the expence of that reparation. December 25 1800.
  • First tour in Great Britain : during the fair, £1,000 challenge to the world! to produce the equal of Lallo [sic], the greatest living wonder in the world : a native of Lucknow, central India : Lalloo... simply a boy and girl joined together... / James Norman and M.D. Francis, proprietors.
  • First tour in Great Britain : during the fair, £1,000 challenge to the world! to produce the equal of Lallo [sic], the greatest living wonder in the world : a native of Lucknow, central India : Lalloo... simply a boy and girl joined together... / James Norman and M.D. Francis, proprietors.
  • Mercurial Air-holder and Breathing Machine. Plate at the begining of Research 1: Concerning the Analysis of Nitric Acid and Nitrous Gas and the Profuction if Nitrous Oxide. Fig 1 Represent a section of the machine, which consists of a strong glass cylinder (A), cemented to one of the same kind (B), fitted to the solid block (C), into which the glass tube (D) is cemented for conveying air into the moveable receiver (E). The brass axis (Fig 2, F) having a double bearing at (a, a) is terminated at one end by the wheel (G), the circumference of which equal to the depth of the receiver, so that it mat be drawn to the surface of the mercury by the cord (b) in one revolution; to the other end is fitted the wheel (H) front view seen in Fig 3...
  • Paris quadrifolia L. Trilliaceae Herb Paris Distribution: Europe and temperate Asia. This dramatic plant was known as Herb Paris or one-berry. Because of the shape of the four leaves, resembling a Burgundian cross or a true love-knot, it was also known as Herb True Love. Prosaically, the name ‘Paris’ stems from the Latin ‘pars’ meaning ‘parts’ referring to the four equal leaves, and not to the French capital or the lover of Helen of Troy. Sixteenth century herbalists such as Fuchs, who calls it Aconitum pardalianches which means leopard’s bane, and Lobel who calls it Solanum tetraphyllum, attributed the poisonous properties of Aconitum to it. The latter, called monkshood and wolfsbane, are well known as poisonous garden plants. Gerard (1633), however, reports that Lobel fed it to animals and it did them no harm, and caused the recovery of a dog poisoned deliberately with arsenic and mercury, while another dog, which did not receive Herb Paris, died. It was recommended thereafter as an antidote to poisons. Coles (1657) wrote 'Herb Paris is exceedingly cold, wherupon it is proved to represse the rage and force of any Poyson, Humour , or Inflammation.' Because of its 'cold' property it was good for swellings of 'the Privy parts' (where presumably hot passions were thought to lie), to heal ulcers, cure poisoning, plague, procure sleep (the berries) and cure colic. Through the concept of the Doctrine of Signatures, the black berry represented an eye, so oil distilled from it was known as Anima oculorum, the soul of the eye, and 'effectual for all the disease of the eye'. Linnaeus (1782) listed it as treating 'Convulsions, Mania, Bubones, Pleurisy, Opththalmia', but modern authors report the berry to be toxic. That one poison acted as an antidote to another was a common, if incorrect, belief in the days of herbal medicine. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Pulmonaria officinalis L. Boraginaceae Distribution: Officinalis indicates its medicinal use in early medicine. Europe. Pulmonaria or Lungwort are names for a lichen and a perennial plant in the Boraginaceae. This is the latter. Lyte (1578) has a woodcut of our plant and also calls it Sage of Jerusalem and says it is of ' no particular use in physicke, but is much used in meates and salads with eggs, as is also Cowslippes and Primroses, whereunto in temperature it is much alike.' He lists and describes the lichen separately. Culpeper (1650) said he found many sorts of lunguewort in perusing Authors ' Pulmonari, arborea and Symphytum maculosum [and the latter is our plant, the others the lichen] and that they 'helpe infirmities of the lungues, as hoarseness, coughs, wheezing, shortnesse of breath etc.' Coles (1657) who espouses the Doctrine of Signatures in a way unrivalled by any other English author, might have been expected to confirm the concept that the mottled leaves looked like the cut surface of a lung which indicates their purpose, but he only mentions the lungwort which is a lichen. However, Porta's beautiful book on the Doctrine, Phytognomica (1588), is clear that the plant called Pulmonaria with hairy leaves like a bugloss, spotted white with purple flowers, commonly called 'cynoglossa' [with a woodcut which could be Pulmonaria officinalis] indicate its use for ulcerated lungs, spitting blood, shortness of breath and asthma equally with the lichen with the same name. Lobel & Pena (1570) call it 'PULMONARIA, masculosa folia Borrago, floribus Primula veris, purpureis [PULMONARIA spotted, Borage-leaved, flowers like Primula veris - Cowslips - purple]' and say that women mix the leaves with a little broth and make it into an omelette for lung disorders and to strengthen the heart. Lobel (1576) calls it Maculosa Pulmonaria and describes a white flowered form with a good woodcut. Gerard (1633) uses the same woodcut as Lobel and calls it Pulmonatia foliis Echii, Buglosse Cowslips with red flowers, and a woodcut of a narrow leaved plant as Pulmonaria masculosa, Spotted Cowslips of Jerusalem with red, blue and purple flowers and says 'the leaves are used among pot-herbes. The roots are aso thought to be good against the infirmities of ulcers of the lungs...'. Quincy (1718) writes: '... it has a glutinous juice ... and heals ulcers and erosions. It is commended in coughs and spitting of blood but is little used either in the Shop or Prescriptions. Not used in modern medicine. It is in the family Boraginaceae whose species are often rich in pyrrolizidine alkaloids that cause liver toxicity and liver cancers, but levels in Pulmonaria officinalis may not be significant. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.