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  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One : your friend in the fight against hayfever.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One : your friend in the fight against hayfever.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One : your friend in the fight against hayfever.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One : your friend in the fight against hayfever.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One : your friend in the fight against hayfever.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One : your friend in the fight against hayfever.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One nasal spray : hayfever prevention and treatment in one.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One nasal spray : hayfever prevention and treatment in one.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One nasal spray : hayfever prevention and treatment in one.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One nasal spray : hayfever prevention and treatment in one.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One nasal spray : hayfever prevention and treatment in one.
  • Join the resistance : ask your pharmacist for new Resiston One nasal spray : hayfever prevention and treatment in one.
  • Men of opposing social classes in a game of boules; illustrating the faculty of weight and resistance in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • A Ugandan soldier of the National Resistance Army dressed in combat uniform holding a rifle; a thought-bubble containing a semi-naked woman appears to his left and a condom below, warning about the importance of safe-sex to prevent AIDS; an advertisement by the Public Health, NRA. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Drs. Hermanus Schaepman and Abraham Kuyper, shown as witches, stoke the fire of a cauldron from which emanate devils; symbolising their struggle to institute suffrage, against prevailing resistance in the Dutch second chamber. Reproduction of a lithograph after Van Geldorp, 1901.
  • Blister pack of chloroquine antimalarial tablets. Chloroquine is used to prevent and treat the infectious disease malaria. Malaria is caused by parasites (Plasmodium species) which enter the blood when inefcted mosquitoes feed. Side effects of chloroquine include vomitting, nausea and headache. Retinopathy (damage to the retina) is a rare eye condition associated with long term use over many years. Drug resistance against antimalarials is increasing.
  • Galega officinalis L. Fabaceae. Goat's Rue. Distribution: Central and Southern Europe, Asia Minor. Culpeper (1650) writes that it ‘... resists poison, kills worms, resists the falling sickness [epilepsy], resisteth the pestilence.’ Galega officinalis contains guanidine which reduces blood sugar by decreasing insulin resistance and inhibiting hepatic gluconeogenesis.. Metformin and Phenformin are drugs for type II diabetes that rely on this group of chemicals, known as biguanidines. Its name gala, meaning milk plus ega meaning 'to bring on', refers to its alleged property of increasing milk yield, and has been used in France to increase milk yield in cows. officinalis refers to its use in the offices of the monks, and is a common specific name for medicinal plants before 1600 and adopted by Linnaeus (1753). The fresh plant tastes of pea pods. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Castration resistant prostate cancer, human tissue
  • Orbenin : oral penicillin for resistant staphylococci.
  • Orbenin : oral penicillin for resistant staphylococci.
  • Silphium perfoliatum L. Asteraceae Indian Cup. Distribution: North America. Austin (2004) records that another species, S. compositum, was used by Native Americans to produce a chewing gum from the dried sap of the roots, and Native American medicinal uses for 'Indian Cup' are probably referrable to S. compositum and not S. perfoliatum. Silphium perfoliatum contains enzymes that inhibit trypsin and chymotrypsin which gives it resistance to fungal, bacterial and insect attacks. Male gall wasps (Antisotrophus rufus) alter the chemistry of the plant to enable them to locate females, making it a 'signpost' plant. The gall wasp lays its eggs in the stem of Silphium laciniatum, to provide food for the larva on emergence, and the galls containing a male or a female wasp will cause the plant to give off a different chemical odour. Emerging male wasps can search for female wasps, which emerge later, by locating this chemical fragrance which acts as a sex pheromone proxy (Tooker et al Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Nov 26
  • Why the face resists cold, Chinese, Ming period
  • Gyrosep : solvent resistant stirred filtration cells / Intersep Filtration Systems.
  • Gyrosep : solvent resistant stirred filtration cells / Intersep Filtration Systems.
  • Molsep : high temperature and pressure resistant hollow fibre cartridges / Intersep Filtration Systems.
  • Molsep : high temperature and pressure resistant hollow fibre cartridges / Intersep Filtration Systems.
  • Soldiers plundering a convent, killing and raping the men and women that resist them. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Seven members of the French committee on vaccination rail against Tapp, who resists the new discovery. Line engraving, c. 1800.
  • Buddha, resisting the demons of Mara, who are attempting to prevent him from attaining enlightenment, as angels watch from above. Lithograph.
  • Istanbul: Turkish police taking Armenians to prison and attacking those who resist. Halftone by C. Hentschel after C.J. Staniland, 1895.