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  • Portrait of Daniel Carrion, a student at Lima, who died while studying Oroya fever in Peru, who had Carrion's Disease named after him.
  • Tigridia pavonia (L.f.)DC. Iridaceae Distribution: Peru. These colourful, tulip-like flowers were named by De Candolle for Joseph (José) Pavón Jiménez (1754-1840), the Spanish pharmacist/botanist who accompanied Hipólito Ruiz and Joseph Dombey on their epic botanising in Peru and Chile (1777-1788) in search of quinine and medicinal plants. On the 8th April 1777, King Carlos III of Spain gave permission for the three botanists and two artists to travel from Spain to America to study the flora of Peru and Chile, then Spanish dominions. Initially around Lima, and then further afield, they collected plants which their artists painted
  • A woman pushes a trolley down a dilapidated street in Lima, Peru representing poverty; with 4 smaller images depicting social issues associated with AIDS including packets of money in bank safes, drugs and male prostitutes; an AIDS prevention advertisement by Pecos, the Programa Especial de Control del SIDA. Colour lithograph by Juan L. Gargurevich, ca. 1995.
  • "Berubin", "Lusa" vitamina B12 de acción prolongada ... Flavo-Crom, poderoso hemostático de acción capilar / Laboratorios Unidos S.A.
  • Coagumin "Lusa" : medicatión regulador funcional de la coagulación sanguinea / Laboratorios Unidos, S.A. ; distribuidores: Henri le Bienvenu, S.A.
  • A group of gay men in a protest march about AIDS prevention with quotes about AIDS and a declaration of 10 points about the rights of those with HIV; an advertisement by the Movimiento Homosexual de Lima. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The faces of men and women representing the warning that AIDS does not respect respect sex, race, age or social status; advertisement by Via Libre, Peru. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • El Duplenvás asegura estabilidad y facilita la mezcla : El Bevitín Fuerte con hígado inyectable ... / Abbott Laboratories del Perú, S.A.
  • A Peruvian woman wearing a blue bathing costume walking down steps into the sea. Coloured lithograph by J. Gaildrau, 1856, after A.A. Bonnaffé.
  • M0008026: Portrait of Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936)
  • The word 'SIDA' linked within a chain of male and female symbols representing an AIDS prevention advertisement by Coprecos, Peru. Colour lithograph by Paco San Martin, ca. 1995.
  • Men, women and children decorating the words 'SIDA' against a floral background and a chequered floor; an AIDS prevention advertisement by Coprecos. Colour lithograph by Paco San Martin, 1994.