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  • Dermoid cyst containing long red hair, removed from a light-haired woman aged forty-four years (Montgomery)
  • A standing woman preparing to remove facial hair from seated woman using a piece of string. Watercolour, China, 18--.
  • A hairdresser raising her scissors and comb in the air after removing all but a tuft of the hair from her client who sits on a red stool; an analogy to cutting the funds of AIDS Fonds. Colour lithograph.
  • Elephant's hair. Slide by Topping - x165 - lamp. Beck Intensity and ground glass and wratten 45a filter. Condenser - Leitz 1.4 NA. Camera ext. 215 mm. Plate - Kodak Pan. Exp. 5.75m. Fine grain 1D11. Talen F.C. Griggs 29.9.48 op.lat. Top lens removed. OBJ. Watson Holes 12mm. 0.65 N.n. used 182 mm. thickcore Eyepiece x 14.
  • Cistus incanus ssp creticus Juss. Cistaceae. Rock Rose. Distribution: Crete. Interesting symbiosis with fungus called Tuber melanosporum which increases nutrient absorption for the plant and inhibits growth of other plants in the vicinity. It is a source of the resin ‘labdanum’ (a.k.a. ‘ladanum’) used in perfumes (similar smell to ambergris), as is Cistus ladanifer. It has no medical uses now, and such use was dwindling even in the 18th century. In the 16th century (Henry Lyte’s 1575 translation of Rembert Dodoen’s Cruydeboeck of 1554) its uses were described (directly copied from Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (70AD)) as: ‘Ladanum dronketh with olde wine, stoppeth the laske [periods], and provoketh urine. It is very good against the hardness of the matrix or mother [uterus] layde to in the manner of a pessarie, and it draweth down the secondes or afterbirth, when it is layde upon quicke coles [hot coals], and the fumigation or parfume thereof be received up into the body of women. // The same applied to the head with Myrrhe and oyle of Myrrhe, cureth the scurffe, called Alopecia, and keepeth the heare [hair] from falling of [sic], but whereas it is already fallen away, it will not cause the heare to growe agayne. // ...' and goes on in this vein about its uses for pain in the ears, and removing sores and scars and other things. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Order card.
  • Order card.
  • Bonus order card.
  • Bonus order card.
  • A Christian man being shaved while a Turk sharpens his scimitar on a whetstone behind; representing the exposure of Europe to a Turkish invader. Engraving.
  • Edwards' "Harlene" for the hair : the great hair dressing : restores the hair... / [Edwards' Harlene Company].
  • "Mama, shall I have beautiful long hair like you when I grow up?" : "Certainly my dear, if you use 'Edwards' Harlene'." / Edwards' Harlene Co.
  • "Mama, shall I have beautiful long hair like you when I grow up?" : "Certainly my dear, if you use 'Edwards' Harlene'." / Edwards' Harlene Co.
  • The Clifford hair restorer / sole proprietor and manufacturer: W.B. Mason ; sold by Taylors' Drug Co. Ltd.
  • British Togoland or Ghana: a man with metal woven into his hair. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 19--.
  • Cistus ladanifer L., Cistaceae. Common Gum Cistus or Ladanum/labdanum. Distribution: Southern Europe and N. Africa. The fragrant resin from the sticky leaves, Gum Labdanum, is extracted and used in Mediterranean regions as an insecticide and deodorant ((Lewis & Elvin-Lewis, 2003). Lyte (1578) advises local application to prevent hair loss and cure earache
  • Citrus Limon (Lemon)
  • Ming herbal (painting): Paulownia
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.
  • Louis Pasteur and his rabies patients. Wood engraving after Paul Renouard, 1886.