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  • Healthy eating at an early age / Batchelors Nutritional Advice Centre.
  • Healthy eating at an early age / Batchelors Nutritional Advice Centre.
  • Salvia nemorosa L. Lamiaceae Woodland sage. Balkan clary Distribution: Central Europe, Western Asia. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Linnaeus (1782) also: 'Timor, Languor, Leucorrhoea, Senectus [fear, tiredness, white vaginal discharge, old age]'. Its health giving and immortality conferring properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Cadbury's Cocoa : absolutely pure / Cadbury's.
  • Cadbury's Cocoa : absolutely pure / Cadbury's.
  • Food choices / Flora Project for Heart Disease Prevention.
  • Food choices / Flora Project for Heart Disease Prevention.
  • Jane Scrimshaw, aged 126. Mezzotint by J. Faber, senior, 1710.
  • Dry gangrene of the right hand and forearm
  • Three sisters with achondroplasia
  • Hands of three sisters with achondroplasia
  • Hands of a girl with achondroplasia
  • Three sisters with achondroplasia
  • Human femoral bone, AFM
  • The face of a youth advertising STOP AIDS evenings for young gay and bisexual men. Colour lithograph.
  • Men grinding saws in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after J. Palmer, 1866.
  • Men grinding scythes in Sheffield. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1866, after J. Palmer, 1865.
  • Healthy breast mammogram, artwork
  • Healthy breast mammogram, artwork
  • Healthy breast mammogram, artwork
  • Healthy breast mammogram, artwork
  • Healthy breast mammogram, artwork
  • Healthy breast mammogram, artwork
  • Feet of a patient affected with myositis ossificans
  • A white liver bird, and messages to people in Liverpool advocating chest x-rays for diagnosis of tuberculosis. Colour lithograph, 1959.
  • A woman (Le Sanying) with tumours on her forehead and under her left ear. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1838.
  • Choroidal space, human eye.
  • Thomas Dewhurst Jennings, seated on two dining chairs. Photograph, 1884.
  • Choroidal Space, human eye.
  • Choroid, human eye. Zone of Haller.