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  • Small bulldog standing in front of a large rock. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A small donkey loaded with two full baskets standing outside a forest. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • A horse has been killed after jumping a hurdle in a steeplechase: the jockey holding a whip looks at it with concern. Wood engraving by E. Froment, 1874 after W. Small.
  • A mounted huntsmen follows his hounds to a small stream in a wood. Etching by E. Hacker after J. F. Herring.
  • A small bird, the wall creeper (Tichodroma muraria), spotting a spider on a wall. Coloured lithograph by E. Travies, ca. 1830.
  • 5 Stethoscopes. A- very small, B and C- obtained from Italy. D- bell shaped. E- not unlike a french type.
  • A small girl recovering from an illness and being visited by neighbours. Colour process print, 1907, after E. Magnus.
  • A small girl recovering from an illness and being visited by neighbours. Colour process print, 1907, after E. Magnus.
  • A stag and a group of deer resting near a small lake in a forest. Etching by J.S. Müller after J.E. Ridinger.
  • A barber shaving a man's head; a boy assistant and a woman holding a small child look on. Watercolour painting by L.E. Zoccola, 1897.
  • Diseased skin on the face and eye of a small boy suffering from herpes zoster (common shingles). Chromolithograph by E. Burgess (?), 1850/1880?.
  • China: a litter or palanquin carrying a woman is being transported by two mules across a stream in a rocky pass. Wood engraving by E. Froment after W. Small.
  • A concert: one man is playing a stringed instrument, another a small pipe and a third is singing and holding a glass of wine. Engraving by Thomas Chambars after E. Edwards after Valentin de Boulogne.
  • Carnival at Cuzco: a small Indian woman with a clyster pulls at a sheet worn by a man, who is holding an uprooted tree; representing malaria. Wood engraving by T. Hildebrand after E. Riou, 1869.
  • 4 Stethoscopes. A- small, funnel-shaped, lined with brass. B- obatined from Italy. C- obtained from Italy. D- bell shaped, probably 1850s to 1860s. E- probably Stoke's type.
  • A bonesetter, A.E. Kennard, at work in St Katherine Cree church, London: a small boy with a bound leg sits on his lap while patients wait in the pews; a nurse and a vicar look on. Photograph, ca. 1925.
  • A bonesetter, A.E. Kennard, at work in St Katherine Cree church, London: a small boy with a bound leg sits on his lap while patients wait in the pews; a nurse and a vicar look on. Photograph, ca. 1925.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner recounting his exploits to a small boy, showing him a print called "The blowing up of the Orient": his mother and a print pedlar (?) look on. Engraving by T. Holles, 1845, after E. M. Ward.
  • A man with his gouty leg on a stool, a maid accidently pours boiling water over him and a small boy is stealing from his wallet, perhaps further punishment for his overindulgence. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1775, after E. Penny.
  • A jester with a small guitar slung over his shoulder offers cherries to a bird on his hand as another bird takes the fruit from the plate on the floor, and a chained monkey looks on. Engraving by E. Mohn after A. Lambron.
  • Fat particles from the kidneys of a large sheep and some viewed with the aid of a microscope (fig. 1, a-d; e-h; i-m) (illustrations to entry on Adeps); human allantois of twins, in two views (figs 2-3), and an allantois of a small aborted foetus (fig. 4) (illustrations to entry on Allantois) Etching by G. Bickham after himself, 1743.
  • Two men sit in discussion top right with a further group of cartoon male figures at the bottom sit chatting around a small coffee table adorned with cups and a teapot by Rob [?]; an advertisement for an open discussion group for those living with HIV and AIDS mentored by Arnd Bächler (gay counseling) and Stefan Cremer (HIV e.V.). Photocopy, 1994.
  • The prickly ita palm (Mauritia armata) with a man and smaller palm in the distance. Watercolour by E.A. Goodall, 1846.
  • A large orange ball and a smaller black ball balanced on a thin line against an orange horizon bearing the logo for AIDS-Hilfe Hamburg e.V. Colour lithograph by Visuelle Kommunikation e.V., 199-.
  • Ricinus communis L. Euphorbiaceae Castor oil plant. Palma Christi. Distribution: Mediterranean, E Africa, India. The seeds themselves are pretty, brown, bean-like usually with gold filigree markings on them, and the interior of the seed is the source of castor oil. The outer coat of the seed is the source of the poison ricin, famous (infamous) for the umbrella murder of Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. The KGB are alleged to have killed Georgi Markov, a dissident Bulgarian journalist, with a pellet containing 0.28mgm of ricin fired into his leg using a specially adapted air gun in an umbrella. While his symptoms were those of ricin poisoning, no ricin was ever found in the pellet that was extracted from his leg. Two seeds, chewed and ingested are said to be fatal, but most people vomit and get rid of the toxin. Ducks are resistant to ricin, and need to ingest more than 80 to be fatal! In Peru the leaves are used as a tea for stomach ache, although they contain small amounts of ricin. It is called Palma Christi in early herbals because of the five pointed leaves, which schematically represent a hand. It is a monotypic genus in the spurge family. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ricinus communis L. Euphorbiaceae Castor oil plant. Palma Christi. Distribution: Mediterranean, E Africa, India. The seeds themselves are pretty, brown, bean-like usually with gold filigree markings on them, and the interior of the seed is the source of castor oil. The outer coat of the seed is the source of the poison ricin, famous (infamous) for the umbrella murder of Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. The KGB are alleged to have killed Georgi Markov, a dissident Bulgarian journalist, with a pellet containing 0.28mgm of ricin fired into his leg using a specially adapted air gun in an umbrella. While his symptoms were those of ricin poisoning, no ricin was ever found in the pellet that was extracted from his leg. Two seeds, chewed and ingested are said to be fatal, but most people vomit and get rid of the toxin. Ducks are resistant to ricin, and need to ingest more than 80 to be fatal! In Peru the leaves are used as a tea for stomach ache, although they contain small amounts of ricin. It is called Palma Christi in early herbals because of the five pointed leaves, which schematically represent a hand. It is a monotypic genus in the spurge family. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ricinus communis L. Euphorbiaceae Castor oil plant. Palma Christi. Distribution: Mediterranean, E Africa, India. The seeds themselves are pretty, brown, bean-like usually with gold filigree markings on them, and the interior of the seed is the source of castor oil. The outer coat of the seed is the source of the poison ricin, famous (infamous) for the umbrella murder of Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. The KGB are alleged to have killed Georgi Markov, a dissident Bulgarian journalist, with a pellet containing 0.28mgm of ricin fired into his leg using a specially adapted air gun in an umbrella. While his symptoms were those of ricin poisoning, no ricin was ever found in the pellet that was extracted from his leg. Two seeds, chewed and ingested are said to be fatal, but most people vomit and get rid of the toxin. Ducks are resistant to ricin, and need to ingest more than 80 to be fatal! In Peru the leaves are used as a tea for stomach ache, although they contain small amounts of ricin. It is called Palma Christi in early herbals because of the five pointed leaves, which schematically represent a hand. It is a monotypic genus in the spurge family. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ricinus communis L. Euphorbiaceae Castor oil plant. Palma Christi. Distribution: Mediterranean, E Africa, India. The seeds themselves are pretty, brown, bean-like usually with gold filigree markings on them, and the interior of the seed is the source of castor oil. The outer coat of the seed is the source of the poison ricin, famous (infamous) for the umbrella murder of Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. The KGB are alleged to have killed Georgi Markov, a dissident Bulgarian journalist, with a pellet containing 0.28mgm of ricin fired into his leg using a specially adapted air gun in an umbrella. While his symptoms were those of ricin poisoning, no ricin was ever found in the pellet that was extracted from his leg. Two seeds, chewed and ingested are said to be fatal, but most people vomit and get rid of the toxin. Ducks are resistant to ricin, and need to ingest more than 80 to be fatal! In Peru the leaves are used as a tea for stomach ache, although they contain small amounts of ricin. It is called Palma Christi in early herbals because of the five pointed leaves, which schematically represent a hand. It is a monotypic genus in the spurge family. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A man's hand holding a syringe poised to inject into his arm with five further smaller images showing the procedures for safe drug use; an advertisement by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Torsten Schmidt and Detlev Pusch.
  • The pupa of a mosquito (Anopheles maculipennis). Photograph of a drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca 1919.