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  • Four scenes involving health workers advising young men and women in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Senegal Service National de la Sante Reproductive, ca. 2002.
  • A group of young people going into an information health centre in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Senegal Service National de la Sante Reproductive, ca. 2000.
  • A health worker inviting two young men and two young women into a Senegal health center. Colour lithograph by Senegal Service National de la Sante Reproductive, ca. 2000.
  • A man stands behind his wife and 8 children who eat from a large bowl on the floor: family planning in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Projet Santé Familiale Senegal, ca. 2000.
  • A couple dream of having a baby: infertility problems in Senegal. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A happy mother with her one child: family planning in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Projet Santé Familiale Senega, ca. 2000.
  • A young woman thinking about having a baby leaving a health clinic: family planning in Senegal. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Illustrated tips to prevent cholera in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Santé et de l'Action Sociale, ca. 2000.
  • A woman and her child lie beneath a mosquito net: preventing malaria in Senegal. Colour lithograph by DNSR (?), ca. 2000.
  • A health worker guides a woman into a centre for reproductive health for adolescents in Senegal. Colour lithograph by CSRJ, ca. 2000.
  • A happy family of four: family planning in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Santé et de l'Action Sociale, ca. 2000.
  • A pregnant woman carrying a baby on her back with another beside her: family planning in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Projet Santé Familiale Senega, ca. 2000.
  • A deprived large family compared to a small happy family of five: family planning in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Family Planning Association of Uganda, ca. 2000.
  • A pregnant woman points at a young man who appears shocked: Youth Development Project in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports, ca. 2000.
  • A couple with their child beneath an umbrella bearing the letters 'PF: National Programme of family planning in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Santé et de l'Action Sociale, ca. 2000.
  • A pregnant woman attached to a drip is surrounded by medical staff on a maternity ward: Youth Development Project in Senegal. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Jeunesse et des Sports, ca. 2000.
  • Albizia julibrissin Durazz. Fabaceae. Persian silk tree. Called 'shabkhosb' in Persian, meaning 'sleeping tree' as the pinnate leaves close up at night. Tropical tree. Named for Filippo degli Albizzi, an Italian naturalist, who brought seeds from Constantinople to Florence in 1749, and introduced it to European horticulture. The specific epithet comes from the Persian 'gul-i abrisham' which means 'silk flower'. Distribution: South Africa to Ethiopia, Senegal, Madagascar, Asia. Bark is poisonous and emetic and antihelminthic. Various preparations are widely used for numerous conditions and the oxitocic albitocin is abortifacient. However, studies on the seeds and bark of other Albizia species in Africa, demonstrate it is highly toxic, half a kilogram of seeds given to a quarter ton bull, killed it in two hours (Neuwinger, 1996). A useful tree for controlling soil erosion, producing shade in coffee plantations, and as a decorative shade tree in gardens. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Albizia julibrissin Durazz. Fabaceae. Persian silk tree. Called 'shabkhosb' in Persian, meaning 'sleeping tree' as the pinnate leaves close up at night. Tropical tree. Named for Filippo degli Albizzi, an Italian naturalist, who brought seeds from Constantinople to Florence in 1749, and introduced it to European horticulture. The specific epithet comes from the Persian 'gul-i abrisham' which means 'silk flower'. Distribution: South Africa to Ethiopia, Senegal, Madagascar, Asia. Bark is poisonous and emetic and antihelminthic. Various preparations are widely used for numerous conditions and the oxitocic albitocin is abortifacient. However, studies on the seeds and bark of other Albizia species in Africa, demonstrate it is highly toxic, half a kilogram of seeds given to a quarter ton bull, killed it in two hours (Neuwinger, 1996). A useful tree for controlling soil erosion, producing shade in coffee plantations, and as a decorative shade tree in gardens. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A young African man posing naked, holding a stick and a piece of cloth, in front of a painted backdrop.
  • Five butterflies and moths, including the atlas moth (Attacus atlas) and orange-tip (Anthocharis sp.). Coloured lithograph by J. Delarue after himself.
  • Above, Governor Wall hanging on a gibbet with a cloth over his head; below, Governor Wall ordering the flogging of a naked man who is tied to a block. Etching.
  • Fetishes
  • Maomedi, an important chief
  • 'Our caravan on the march'
  • A native band owned by Lukala, [chiefteners] at Lusambo
  • Our boys dancing at night to music of Maomedi's band
  • Crossing a stream.
  • A [wadudi] fetish; central African prairie plateau
  • Scadoxus multiflorus Raf. Amaryllidaceae. Blood Flower, Poison root, Fireball Lily. Distribution: Sub-Saharan Africa. The genus name is a concatenation of the Greek words, Sciadion meaning a parasol or umbel, and doxa meaning 'glorious'
  • Different species of cimex, including the bedbug (fig. 1). Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1801.