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  • A closed red tulip pointing towards an opening lily representing 'Love Question No 159', a warning that you can think what you like about infidelity, but you must think about the consequences of cheating without a condom?; one of a series of safe sex AIDS prevention advertisements by Folkhälsoinstitutet, RFSU and RFSL. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.
  • The zodiac man. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.
  • The zodiac man. Watercolour painting by a Persian artist.
  • Insomnia
  • A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm, and a physician examining a urine-flask. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, 18th (?) century.
  • A surgeon letting blood from a woman's arm, and a physician examining a urine-flask. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, 18th (?) century.
  • The emblematic figure of a man representing secularisation, technical innovation, educational reforms and liberal politics in the United Kingdom. Lithograph, ca. 1830.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A swollen and inflamed foot: gout is represented by an attacking demon. Coloured soft-ground etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • Vitex agnus-castus var. latifolia
  • A blacksmith working in his forge, and discussing money with two customers, while a boy shoes a horse. Engraving by C.W. Sharpe after J.M.W. Turner.
  • Liberation of Jewish slaves: a woman and a young man embrace a bearded man dressed in robes, others travel on the road with camels. Engraving by C.H. Jeens after H. Le Jeune, 1847.