How many times a day do you hear these words? 'Doctor, I always feel so tired'... : such patients respond to Ritalin : the well tried well tolerated antilethargic.

Beatrice Cenci and her stepmother, in bed in prison in Rome, hear their mandate of execution being read by a Papal envoy accompanied by members of a confraternity of Saint John the Baptist. Etching, ca. 1850.

Three monkeys with the words 'Hear, Look, Talk, AIDS for yourself' representing an advertisement for the Stop AIDS Kanagawa campaign as part of the 10th International Conference on AIDS and STD in 1994. Colour lithograph, 1994.

Please find enclosed the list of the posters and postcards which you have received I hear from us ... : I have also composed a few lines regarding the background to the campaign which I hope meets your needs : "Take Care" AIDS Awareness Campaign ... / Jenny McDermott, assistant archivist, Lothian Health Services Archive.

If you are ... a man who is ... in a relationship with ... another man : we would like to hear from you & your partner : help us educate doctors about gay relationships, response to HIV and use of the health services by taking part (anonymously) in this major research project / Dilip Lakhani, John McLean, Marion  Brookes.

The mahatmya of the 13th adhyaya. An adulterous woman from the city of Harinam goes to the forest with her husband and is attacked by a tiger who only eats those who commit immoral acts. Reborn as a low-caste Chandala, the woman hears the 13th adhyaya of the Bhagvadgita from the holy man and asks him to recite it to the tiger as well. Both the woman and the tiger receive divine bodies and are taken to Visnu's heaven

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.

A woman shouting into a man's ear-trumpet. Wood engraving.

A collapsible Victorian ear trumpet made of tin made by Atkinson, Union Court, Holborn, London

A Victorian ear trumpet swathed in black silk and lace mouning

Two Victorian ear trumpets, one made of tin made by Atkinson, Union Court, Holborn, London, and the other swathed in black silk and lace mourning

Book of stamps... : Weather the weather with Bovril.

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