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  • A list of AIDS prevention services provided by CRIPS, the Centre Régional d'Information et de Prévention du SIDA Nord - Pas-de-Calais. Colour lithograph.
  • Conference : recent developments in prevention and therapy through Maharishi ayur-veda towards a disease-free society : new approaches to the prevention and treatment of heart disease, chronic disorders, cancer, AIDS : Royal College of Physicians, London, Monday 17 October 1988 / World Medical Association for Perfect Health - Great Britain.
  • Conference : recent developments in prevention and therapy through Maharishi ayur-veda towards a disease-free society : new approaches to the prevention and treatment of heart disease, chronic disorders, cancer, AIDS : Royal College of Physicians, London, Monday 17 October 1988 / World Medical Association for Perfect Health - Great Britain.
  • Conference : recent developments in prevention and therapy through Maharishi ayur-veda towards a disease-free society : new approaches to the prevention and treatment of heart disease, chronic disorders, cancer, AIDS : Royal College of Physicians, London, Monday 17 October 1988 / World Medical Association for Perfect Health - Great Britain.
  • Conference : recent developments in prevention and therapy through Maharishi ayur-veda towards a disease-free society : new approaches to the prevention and treatment of heart disease, chronic disorders, cancer, AIDS : Royal College of Physicians, London, Monday 17 October 1988 / World Medical Association for Perfect Health - Great Britain.
  • Conference : recent developments in prevention and therapy through Maharishi ayur-veda towards a disease-free society : new approaches to the prevention and treatment of heart disease, chronic disorders, cancer, AIDS : Royal College of Physicians, London, Monday 17 October 1988 / World Medical Association for Perfect Health - Great Britain.
  • A red orchid open wide to reveal a phallic looking erect yellow stamen representing 'Love Question No 266', Carl Lewis runs 100 meters in 9.86 seconds - how quickly can you get a condom on?; one of a series of safe sex AIDS prevention advertisements by Folkhälsoinstitutet, RFSU and RFSL. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.
  • Two footballers about to hug each other in celebration of scoring a goal representing a message about safe sex and AIDS prevention, an advertisement for the AIDS-sekretariatet, Sundhedsstyrelsen. Colour lithograph by Freddy Pedersen/Laursen - Tønder, ca. 1995.
  • Two couples wondering how safe they are from AIDS (English version); a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Ministry of Health - Republic of Seychelles. Colour lithograph by Classic Design Graphic Studio, ca. 1996.
  • The rays of a white sun setting in the sea with palm trees in shadow in the foreground; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Ministry of Health - Republic of Seychelles. Colour lithograph by Classic Design, 1991.
  • Two couples wondering how safe they are from AIDS with lettering in Creole; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Ministry of Health - Republic of Seychelles. Colour lithograph by Classic Design Graphic Studio, ca. 1996.
  • Hygiene: a woman washing her hands to prevent transmission of hepatitis. Colour lithograph, 197-.
  • 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.
  • Recto: the AIDS red ribbon within a white outline with a message in French: "Emergency. This is not because things are difficult that we dare not [it is] because we do not dare that they are difficult"; verso: the same outline shape in blue with details of the CRIPS team with a message: 'best wishes for 1995'; advertisement by CRIPS [Centre Régional d'Information et de Prévention du SIDA Nord - Pas-de-Calais]. Colour lithograph by Les Graphistes Associes.
  • Recto: the AIDS red ribbon within a white outline with a message in French: "Emergency. This is not because things are difficult that we dare not [it is] because we do not dare that they are difficult"; verso: the same outline shape in blue with details of the CRIPS team with a message: 'best wishes for 1995'; advertisement by CRIPS [Centre Régional d'Information et de Prévention du SIDA Nord - Pas-de-Calais]. Colour lithograph by Les Graphistes Associes.
  • Atropa belladonna L. Solanaceae. Deadly nightshade. Dwale. Morella, Solatrum, Hound's berries, Uva lupina, Cucubalus, Solanum lethale. Atropa derives from Atropos the oldest of the three Fates of Greek mythology who cut the thread of Life (her sisters Clotho and Lachesis spun and measured the thread, respectively). belladonna, literally, means 'beautiful lady' and was the Italian name for it. Folklore has it that Italian ladies put drops from the plant or the fruits in their eyes to make themselves doe-eyed, myopic and beautiful. However, this is not supported by the 16th and 17th century literature, where no mention is ever made of dilated pupils (or any of the effects of parasympathetic blockade). Tournefort (1719) says 'The Italians named this plant Belladonna, which in their language signifies a beautiful woman, because the ladies use it much in the composition of their Fucus [rouge or deceit or cosmetic] or face paint.' Parkinson says that the Italian ladies use the distilled juice as a fucus '... peradventure [perhaps] to take away their high colour and make them looke paler.' I think it more likely that they absorbed atropine through their skin and were slightly 'stoned' and disinhibited, which made them beautiful ladies in the eyes of Italian males. Distribution: Europe, North Africa, western Asia. Culpeper (1650) writes: 'Solanum. Nightshade: very cold and dry, binding … dangerous given inwardly … outwardly it helps the shingles, St Antonie's Fire [erysipelas] and other hot inflammation.' Most of the 16th, 17th and 18th century herbals recommend it topically for breast cancers. Poisonous plants were regarded as 'cold' plants as an excess of them caused death and the body became cold. They were regarded as opposing the hot humour which kept us warm and alive. Poultices of Belladonna leaves are still recommended for muscle strain in cyclists, by herbalists. Gerard (1633) writes that it: 'causeth sleep, troubleth the mind, bringeth madnesse if a few of the berries be inwardly taken, but if more be taken they also kill...'. He was also aware that the alkaloids could be absorbed through the skin for he notes that a poultice of the leaves applied to the forehead, induces sleep, and relieves headache. The whole plant contains the anticholinergic alkaloid atropine, which blocks the peripheral actions of acetylcholine in the parasympathetic nervous system. Atropine is a racemic mixture of d- and l- hyoscyamine. Atropine, dropped into the eyes, blocks the acetylcholine receptors of the pupil so it no longer constricts on exposure to bright light - so enabling an ophthalmologist to examine the retina with an ophthalmoscope. Atropine speeds up the heart rate, reduces salivation and sweating, reduces gut motility, inhibits the vertigo of sea sickness, and is used to block the acetylcholine receptors to prevent the effects of organophosphorous and other nerve gas poisons. It is still has important uses in medicine. Atropine poisoning takes three or for days to wear off, and the hallucinations experienced by its use are described as unpleasant. We have to be content with 'madness', 'frenzie' and 'idle and vain imaginations' in the early herbals to describe the hallucinations of atropine and related alkaloids as the word 'hallucination' in the sense of a perception for which there is no external stimulus, was not used in English until 1646 (Sir T. Browne, 1646). It is a restricted herbal medicine which can only be sold in premises which are registered pharmacies and by or under the supervision of a pharmacist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • 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.
  • Une recherche innovante en prévention pour réduire les risques de VIH ... : IPERGAY : Pourquoi? Pour qui? Pour vous? / ANRS, IPERGAY.
  • Une recherche innovante en prévention pour réduire les risques de VIH ... : IPERGAY : Pourquoi? Pour qui? Pour vous? / ANRS, IPERGAY.
  • Journal d'info mai 2011 : L'ANRS prépare un essai important pour l'avenir de la prévention chez les gays / ANRS, IPERGAY.
  • Journal d'info Été 2011 : L'ANRS prépare un essai important pour l'avenir de la prévention chez les gays / ANRS, IPERGAY.
  • Journal d'info juin 2011 : L'ANRS prépare un essai important pour l'avenir de la prévention chez les gays / ANRS, IPERGAY.
  • Journal d'info Été 2011 : L'ANRS prépare un essai important pour l'avenir de la prévention chez les gays / ANRS, IPERGAY.
  • Journal d'info juin 2011 : L'ANRS prépare un essai important pour l'avenir de la prévention chez les gays / ANRS, IPERGAY.