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  • A footballer pulling the shorts down of another player on the pitch with the message about the risk of HIV in the heat of the moment; one of a series of three advertisements for safer sex by the Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Etienne and Etienne.
  • Blotter : Carr's Fever Powders : for colds, feverish heats, influenza.
  • Blotter : Carr's Fever Powders : for colds, feverish heats, influenza.
  • Blotter : Carr's Fever Powders : for colds, feverish heats, influenza.
  • Viola canina L. Violaceae Distribution: Europe. Culpeper (1650) writes 'Violets (to whit the blew ones, for I know little or no use of the white ones in physic) ... provoke sleep, loosen the belly, resist fevers, help inflammations, ... ease pains in the head, help the roughness of the windpipe, soreness in the throat, inflammations in the breast and sides, pleurisies, open stoppings of the liver and help the yellow jaundice'. 'Violet leaves, they are cool, ease pains in the head proceeding of heat, and frenzies, either inwardly taken or outwardly applied, heat of the stomach, or inflammation of the lungs.' It still has the same reputation in modern herbal medicine, and while its safety is not known, it is regarded as edible and flowers are used to garnish salads. Larger quantities are emetic – make one vomit. Not licensed for use in Traditional Herbal Medicines in the UK (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A Chinese man heats up sections of a metal chain over a flame in order to torture a prisoner. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Dri-Block heaters / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • Dri-Block heaters / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • Dri-Block heaters / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • Dri-Block heaters / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • Heating apparatus. Engraving by J. Pass.
  • Simple method of heating a dental case
  • PHC-3 Thermal cyclers, heated lid and accessories / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • PHC-3 Thermal cyclers, heated lid and accessories / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • PHC-3 Thermal cyclers, heated lid and accessories / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • PHC-3 Thermal cyclers, heated lid and accessories / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
  • Arrangement for heating bath water. Watercolour drawing by P. Johnston-Saint, 1933.
  • M0007329: Illustration of early 15th century bath house with steam heating
  • Fully furnished family house, fitted carpets, central heating, suit animal lover... / Bayer plc.
  • Fully furnished family house, fitted carpets, central heating, suit animal lover... / Bayer plc.
  • Baths of Caracalla, Rome: the water heating system. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1756.
  • Equipment invented by Ramshaw for heating copper plates. Engraving by A.W. Warren after W. Newton.
  • Implements invented by Ramshaw for heating copper plates. Engraving by A. W. Warren after W. Newton.
  • An apothecary drawing a distillate from one of four stills heated by a single oven. Woodcut.
  • A tea plantation in China with workers heating and drying tea leaves. Gouache painting with oxidization.
  • An apothecary drawing a distillate from one of four stills heated by a single oven. Woodcut.
  • A body covered with a blanket lying on a heated bath for the purpose of resuscitation. Etching, 1790.
  • Textiles: ribbon making, heating the ribbons on drums (top), details of equipment (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Architecture: sections through a lime-kiln [?], with blocks of limestone heaped up for heating. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • A discourse of naturall bathes, and minerall waters. Wherein first the originall of fountaines in generall is declared. Then the nature and differences of minerals, with examples of particular bathes from most of them. Next the generation of minerals in the earth, from whence both the actuall heate of bathes, and their vertues are proved to proceede. Also by what meanes minerall waters are to be examined and discovered. And lastly, of the nature and uses of the bathes, but especially of our bathes at Bathe in Sommersetshire / [Edward Jorden].