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  • Two women kissing; promoting the protection of vaccination against the risk of Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B as a result of intimate body contact. Colour lithograph by SmithKline Beecham, ca. 2000.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Five medical satires: A 'congress of patients'; a woman tells her blue-eyed lover that the man of her dreams has black eyes - could he obtain artificial eyes to remedy this discrepancy?; diseased patients displayed at a Great Exhibition; a doctor restraining a cow for vaccination; a maid complains that she has to get vaccinated each time she wants a pint of milk. Wood engravings, c. 1868.
  • Senna corymbosa (Lam.)H.S.Irwin&Barneby Caesalpinaceae. Argentine Senna. Distribution: Argentine (other species from Europe). This beautiful shrub that flowers from midsummer until the frosts of winter, is the source of one of the best known of all herbal medicines – Senokot (and senna pods and senna tea), introduced to European medicine (as Senna alexandrina from Egypt) by the Arabians. Every part of the plant contains anthraquinones which, if taken internally, act as a powerful laxative to treat constipation by stimulating the nerve cells of the large bowel. Gerard (1633) notes ‘it is a singular purging medicine’ with over a page on its uses. When used regularly the nerves to the large bowel may be destroyed, leaving a permanently dilated large bowel that never functions properly again. This is a plant which causes the condition it treats to become permanent. Additionally, with prolonged use, the lining of the bowel turns black, serum potassium levels may fall, resulting in cardiac irregularities and sometimes death. Coma, neuropathy and hepatitis have also been reported. It is advertised on television (the actor involved is seen to be depressed and bloated until she takes Senokot, after which she is happy - Hippocrates would have attributed this antidepressant effect to the plant's ability to purge her of the black melancholic humour present in her bowel motions). It is available without prescription or health warning against long-term use. What do you think? Lyte (1578) recommends it strongly for depression, but one might claim to be cured rather than take it again. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Senna corymbosa (Lam.)H.S.Irwin&Barneby Caesalpinaceae. Argentine Senna. Distribution: Argentine (other species from Europe). This beautiful shrub that flowers from midsummer until the frosts of winter, is the source of one of the best known of all herbal medicines – Senokot (and senna pods and senna tea), introduced to European medicine (as Senna alexandrina from Egypt) by the Arabians. Every part of the plant contains anthraquinones which, if taken internally, act as a powerful laxative to treat constipation by stimulating the nerve cells of the large bowel. Gerard (1633) notes ‘it is a singular purging medicine’ with over a page on its uses. When used regularly the nerves to the large bowel may be destroyed, leaving a permanently dilated large bowel that never functions properly again. This is a plant which causes the condition it treats to become permanent. Additionally, with prolonged use, the lining of the bowel turns black, serum potassium levels may fall, resulting in cardiac irregularities and sometimes death. Coma, neuropathy and hepatitis have also been reported. It is advertised on television (the actor involved is seen to be depressed and bloated until she takes Senokot, after which she is happy - Hippocrates would have attributed this antidepressant effect to the plant's ability to purge her of the black melancholic humour present in her bowel motions). It is available without prescription or health warning against long-term use. What do you think? Lyte (1578) recommends it strongly for depression, but one might claim to be cured rather than take it again. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A condom with an open packet and the message in French: "Those who believe there is a vaccine against AIDS - this is what it looks like"; advertisement by Ministére des Affaires Sociales de la Santé et de la Ville. Colour lithograph by M. Descottes, 1995 (?).
  • L'hépatite B & les gays : pourquoi se faire vacciner / réalisé par ACTIS, AIDES, ALS, CRIPS Rhône-Alpes, Keep Smiling et SNEG Rhône-Alpes.
  • L'hépatite B & les gays : pourquoi se faire vacciner / réalisé par ACTIS, AIDES, ALS, CRIPS Rhône-Alpes, Keep Smiling et SNEG Rhône-Alpes.
  • L'hépatite B & les gays : pourquoi se faire vacciner / réalisé par ACTIS, AIDES, ALS, CRIPS Rhône-Alpes, Keep Smiling et SNEG Rhône-Alpes.
  • L'hépatite B & les gays : pourquoi se faire vacciner / réalisé par ACTIS, AIDES, ALS, CRIPS Rhône-Alpes, Keep Smiling et SNEG Rhône-Alpes.
  • L'hépatite B & les gays : pourquoi se faire vacciner / réalisé par ACTIS, AIDES, ALS, CRIPS Rhône-Alpes, Keep Smiling et SNEG Rhône-Alpes.
  • L'hépatite B & les gays : pourquoi se faire vacciner / réalisé par ACTIS, AIDES, ALS, CRIPS Rhône-Alpes, Keep Smiling et SNEG Rhône-Alpes.
  • Moi, je suis IPERGAY. Et vous? : pour le savoir, rendez-vous sur le site www.ipergay.fr / IPERGAY, un essai ANRS.
  • Moi, je suis IPERGAY. Et vous? : pour le savoir, rendez-vous sur le site www.ipergay.fr / IPERGAY, un essai ANRS.
  • Mon sex-planning / IPERGAY, un essai ANRS.
  • Mon sex-planning / IPERGAY, un essai ANRS.
  • Two views of the back of a naked man one in pink, the other in pale blue with information on hepatitis B in relation to AIDS and HIV; a two-sided information leaflet written by Dr. Friedrich Chaban published by Hein & Fiete, Hamburg's gay information centre. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Two views of the back of a naked man one in pink, the other in pale blue with information on hepatitis B in relation to AIDS and HIV; a two-sided information leaflet written by Dr. Friedrich Chaban published by Hein & Fiete, Hamburg's gay information centre. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A nurse holds up a phial in a clinic full of mothers and babies: the new vaccine against liver disease in infants in Tanzania. Colour lithograph by R. Mbago, 2002.
  • A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.
  • Prevention of hepatitis B in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Aventis Pasteur, ca. 2000.
  • The black silhouettes of men and women with arrows and the message that AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease so stick to one partner and use condoms; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Seychelles. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
  • A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
  • The black silhouettes of men and women with arrows and the message that AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease so stick to one partner and use condoms; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Seychelles (Creole version). Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy. Oil painting by E.-E. Hillemacher, 1884.