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  • Use Niagara Corn Starch : superior to all.
  • Potato starch grains (Solanum tuberosum)
  • Hall's Liquid Starch Polish, the best in the market. Give it one trial.
  • Example of starch fracture in flint.
  • Starch manufacture: (a) process of washing and drying (b) plan and elevation of a furnace used. Etching by Antonio Baratti.
  • Comparative analysis of gluten, starch, fat, air and water in various vegetable foodstuffs. Table by W. Sowerby.
  • Less fat? More fibre?? Less sugar??!! More starch?!??! : maybe I'd better read this leaflet called aim for health / Bloomsbury Health Education Department.
  • Less fat? More fibre?? Less sugar??!! More starch?!??! : maybe I'd better read this leaflet called aim for health / Bloomsbury Health Education Department.
  • Chloroplasts in a plant cell, in this case a spinach leaf. Inside the chloroplasts, the stacks of thylakoid membranes are where the action takes place. The dark spots are starch granules. In close proximity are the mitochondria, with curved membranes, and the endothelial reticulum. This system of membranes navigates between the energy producing organelles until it reaches the nucleus, where it also forms the nuclear membranes.
  • Starchless and sugarless diet / Callard & Co.
  • Comparative analyses of foodstuffs. Watercolours by W. Sowerby.
  • Cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum): spathe and spadix with hairs and flowers, fruiting stem, leaf and tuber. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • A tropical landscape with native chamal plants (Dioon edule). Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855, after P. Stroobant.
  • Silverfish scales
  • Silverfish scales
  • Silverfish scales
  • Silverfish scales
  • Silverfish scales
  • Silverfish scales
  • Silverfish scales
  • Silverfish scales
  • Desmid Micrasterias denticulata undergoing cell division
  • Group feeding programme in a school, Lesotho
  • C19 Chinese MS moxibustion point chart: Underarm odour point
  • Inula helenium L. Asteraceae. Elecampine, Elecampane, Enulae campinae Distribution: Britain, S. Europe to the Himalayas. Used medicinally for 2,000 years. Culpeper (1650) writes ‘Elecampane, is ... wholesome for the stomach, resists poison, helps old coughs and shortness of breath, helps ruptures and provokes lust
  • A man with goitre. Chalk drawing by J. de Ribera.
  • A man with goitre. Chalk drawing by J. de Ribera.