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  • A self-indulgent man afflicted with gout: the pain is represented by a demon burning his foot. Coloured lithograph by G. Cruikshank, 1818, after Captain Hehl.
  • A gouty man savouring his feast. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt after E.Y.
  • Unhygienic practices which lead to cholera. Colour lithograph by the Ukraine Military Sanitary Directorate, Sanitary Enlightenment Department of the Kiev Region, 1921.
  • Unhygienic practices which lead to cholera. Colour lithograph by the Ukraine Military Sanitary Directorate, Sanitary Enlightenment Department of the Kiev Region, 1921.
  • Chelsea Pensioners hearing the news of the battle of Waterloo, outside the Duke of York public house. Engraving by J. Burnet, 1831, after D. Wilkie, 1822.
  • Anatomical drawing: mingmen (r. kidney as 'Portal of Life')
  • Holland & Barrett, the health food and natural remedies store : Europe's largest health store chain opens another store on 3rd August at Villiers Street, London.
  • Holland & Barrett, the health food and natural remedies store : Europe's largest health store chain opens another store on 3rd August at Villiers Street, London.
  • A female figure with bowls of fruit and a monkey; Eve picks the apple from the tree of knowledge; representing the sense of taste. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • Orange segment
  • Works of mercy: just as water extinguishes fire, so works of mercy (with penitence) extinguish sin. Engraving attributed to T. Galle, 1601.
  • A Chinese family sit around a small cooking stove eating by the side of the road. Coloured lithograph after W. Alexander.
  • A woman camp-follower shields a wounded soldier on a battle field from the reprimands of his senior officer. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1824.
  • Chinese woodcut: Eye diagnosis -- the Eight Regions (ba kuo)
  • Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) crystals, LM
  • Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) crystals, LM
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Yeast
  • An African man tearing meat from the carcass of an animal: parasitic infections in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn. Asteraceae Milk thistle. Carduus Mariae. Distribution: Europe. Gerard (1633) calls it Carduus Mariae, Carduus Lectus, or Ladies Thistle, and Carduus leucographus [meaning 'white writing', in reference to the white markings on the leaves] because Pliny wrote about a plant he called Leucographis although Gerard notes that it would be 'hard to assume this to be the same [plant].' He also queries if it is the same as the Alba spina of Galen. Of the latter he reports that Galen recommended it for all manner of bleeding, toothache and the seeds for cramp. Gerard writes that Dioscorides recommends that a drink of the seeds helps infants whose sinews are 'drawne together'
  • Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: a boatman. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: a boatman. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.