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  • Préservatif masculin / Sida Info Service, Mairie de Paris, Le 190 Centre de Santé Sexuelle.
  • Préservatif masculin / Sida Info Service, Mairie de Paris, Le 190 Centre de Santé Sexuelle.
  • Les méthodes barrière comme outil de réduction des risques sexuels : préservatif féminin, préservatif masculin, diaphragme, cape cervicale / Mouvement Français pour le Planning Familial.
  • Les méthodes barrière comme outil de réduction des risques sexuels : préservatif féminin, préservatif masculin, diaphragme, cape cervicale / Mouvement Français pour le Planning Familial.
  • Les méthodes barrière comme outil de réduction des risques sexuels : préservatif féminin, préservatif masculin, diaphragme, cape cervicale / Mouvement Français pour le Planning Familial.
  • Les méthodes barrière comme outil de réduction des risques sexuels : préservatif féminin, préservatif masculin, diaphragme, cape cervicale / Mouvement Français pour le Planning Familial.
  • Les méthodes barrière comme outil de réduction des risques sexuels : préservatif féminin, préservatif masculin, diaphragme, cape cervicale / Mouvement Français pour le Planning Familial.
  • I [red ribbon] safe sex : dépistage, prévention, traitements, IST, préservatifs masculins & féminins... tout ce que vour voulez savoir et que vous n'osez pas demander / Sida Info Service ... un service de SIS Association.
  • I [red ribbon] safe sex : dépistage, prévention, traitements, IST, préservatifs masculins & féminins... tout ce que vour voulez savoir et que vous n'osez pas demander / Sida Info Service ... un service de SIS Association.
  • A moon above a queen dressed in blue, and a sun above a king dressed in red; representing two alchemical principles: the dissolving 'lac virginis' (mercury) and the coagulating masculine principle (sulphur). Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • Taxus baccata L. Taxaceae European Yew. Trees are feminine in Latin, so while Taxus has a masculine ending (-us), its specific name, baccata (meaning 'having fleshy berries' (Stearn, 1994)), agrees with it in gender by having a female ending ( -a). Distribution: Europe. Although regarded as poisonous since Theophrastus, Gerard and his school friends used to eat the red berries (they are technically called 'arils') without harm. Johnson clearly ate the fleshy arils and spat out the seed, which is as poisonous as the leaves. It is a source of taxol, an important chemotherapeutic agent for breast and other cancers. It was first extracted from the bark of T. brevifolia, the Pacific yew tree, in 1966. About 1,100 kg of bark produces 10 g of taxol, and 360,000 trees a year would have been required for the needs of the USA – an unsustainable amount. In 1990 a precursor of taxol was extracted from the needles of the European yew so saving the Pacific trees. It is now produced in fermentation tanks from cell cultures of Taxus. Curiously, there is a fungus, Nodulisporium sylviforme, which lives on the yew tree, that also produces taxol. Because taxol stops cell division, it is also used in the stents that are inserted to keep coronary arteries open. Here it inhibits – in a different way, but like anti-fouling paint on the bottom of ships – the overgrowth of endothelial cells that would otherwise eventually block the tube. The economic costs of anticancer drugs are significant. Paclitaxel ‘Taxol’ for breast cancer costs (2012) £246 every 3 weeks
  • Detail from a Sri Lankan mask
  • Una is surrounded by fauns and satyrs in a forest. Lithograph by T.H. Maguire after W.E. Frost.
  • A physician telling a patient that he is going to die: the patient stares out at the viewer. Colour photogravure after the Hon. J. Collier, 1908.
  • A physician telling a patient that he is going to die: the patient stares out at the viewer. Colour photogravure after the Hon. J. Collier, 1908.
  • Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by W. Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman.
  • Packets of condoms and a tube of lubricant bearing the trademark label 'The Hot Rubber℗' next to a man's boxer shorts, a pair of sunglasses and gold cufflinks, chain and a belt bearing the letter 'h'; with the message: 'The intimate new pleasure line for men' in French'; an advertisement for safe sex by The Hot Rubber Company, makers of condoms. Colour lithograph.
  • Jimmy Edwards. Photographic postcard, 195-.
  • Jimmy Edwards. Photographic postcard, 195-.
  • Herbert Campbell and Dan Leno in character. Photographic postcard by Hana Studios, 190-.
  • A young Indian boy with a parasitic headless attachment. Photograph, 18--.
  • Herbert Campbell and Dan Leno in character. Photographic postcard by Hana Studios, 190-.
  • Bobby Pandur. Process print, 19--.
  • Bobby Pandur. Process print, 19--.
  • A sailor on the street, play-fighting with a boy. Colour process print after G.A.S., ca. 1915.
  • A sailor on the street, play-fighting with a boy. Colour process print after G.A.S., ca. 1915.
  • A sailor in drag sits on the deck of a ship in bright sunlight. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A sailor in drag sits on the deck of a ship in bright sunlight. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A sailor on the dock, smoking. Colour process print after G.A.S., ca. 1915.
  • A sailor on the dock, smoking. Colour process print after G.A.S., ca. 1915.