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  • A cloaked figure of death bearing the word 'AIDS' on one sleeve and holding syringes that spill blood as if weapons; advertisement for the Sterile Needle Exchange by the Life Foundation Community Health Outreach Program. Colour lithograph.
  • Self-preservation : a medical treatise on nervous & physical debility, spermatorrhœa, impotence & sterility with practical observations on the use of the microscope in the treatment of the diseases of the generative system / by Samuel La'Mert.
  • Self-preservation : a medical treatise on nervous & physical debility, spermatorrhœa, impotence & sterility with practical observations on the use of the microscope in the treatment of the diseases of the generative system / by Samuel La'Mert.
  • A safe sex advertisement promoting the use of condoms and sterile needles to avoid the spread of AIDS; one of a series of posters in an advertising campaign about AIDS by the Agence Française Lutte Contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.
  • Turner's syndrome karyotype 45,XO. This female lacks the second X chromosome present in the normal karyotype. Symptoms include short stature, neck wbbing, elbow deformity, widely spaced nipples with shield chest, primary amenorrhea, sexual infantilism and sterility. The ovaries are reduced to fibrous streaks. Also known as XO syndrome or ovarian short-stature syndrome.
  • A green neon-lit pharmacy shop sign on the corner of a street with a message in French: 'There are places for protection on every street corner'; with a sterile needle and a condom advertising pharmacies as the first port of call for protection against AIDS; an advertisement by the Ministére du Travail et des Affaires Sociales, L'Assurance Maladie Sécurité Sociale, Ordre National des Pharmacies and CFES. Colour lithograph.
  • Matthiola incana (L.)W.T.Aiton Brassicaceae Distribution: The genus name commemorates Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1500/1–77), physician and botanist, whose name is Latinised to Matthiolus.. Incana means hoary or grey, referring to the colour of the leaves. Mattioli's commentaries on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides were hugely popular. Matthiola incana was first described by Linnaeus as Cheiranthus incanus, being changed to Matthiola by William Aiton, at Kew, in 1812. It is in the cabbage family. Commercial seed packets contain a mixture of single and double forms. The latter are sterile, but selective breeding has increased the proportion of double forms from the seed of single forms to as much as 80%. ‘Ten week stocks’ are popular garden annuals, flowering in the year of sowing, whereas ‘Brompton stocks’ (another variety of M. incana) are biennials, flowering the following year. Gerard (1633), called them Stocke Gillofloure or Leucoium, and notes the white and purple forms, singles and doubles. About their medicinal value he writes ‘not used in Physicke except among certain Empiricks and Quacksalvers, about love and lust matters, which for modestie I omit’. The thought of a member of the cabbage family being an aphrodisiac might encourage the gullible to take more seriously the government’s plea to eat five portions of vegetable/fruit per day. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Saint Giles of Nimes (8th century).
  • Bag of intravenous saline for infusion
  • A contented family of six: bilateral tubal ligation family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Family Health Services Project, ca. 1994.
  • Bioengineering - simulated blood vessel in mould
  • Bioengineering - simulated blood vessel and mould
  • Bioengineering - simulated blood vessel in mould
  • A row of 5 black silhouette syringes pointing diagonally to the right representing a warning about the dangers of contracting AIDS through unsafe use of syringes by the AIDS Control Project of the Goverment of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. Colour lithograph, 1997?.
  • Bioengineering - equipment being assembled
  • A man receiving a shave and a hair cut at the barbers representing the dangers of using unsterilised sharp instruments and contracting AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement in Maldivian by the Department of Public Health, Maldives. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Bioengineering - equipment being assembled
  • Bioengineering - assembly of equipment
  • Five black and white syringes representing an advertisement for sterilisation of needles and syringes to prevent AIDS; by the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by Ayuha (?), ca. December 1992.
  • A man in a pink t-shirt injects a needle into the arm of another man who squints in pain with five illustrated steps for the sterilisation and safe disposal of needles; advertisment by the ACON, The AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph by Jamie Dunbar.
  • A blood transfusion bag representing an advertisement for sterilisation of needles and syringes to prevent AIDS; by the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by Ayuha (?), ca. December 1992.
  • A faithful couple, opening a condom packet, a woman receiving a blood transfusion that has been screened for HIV, sterilised skin piercing instruments and an HIV positive woman seeking health advice before planning a baby; advice by the World Health Organization about the way AIDS can be prevented. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A person receiving a blood transfusion, 2 people forming a brown shadow within a red heart, a range of sharp instruments about to be sterilised, and a pregnant woman with the silhouette of her fetus showing; a warning about the dangers of contracting AIDS by the AIDS Control Project of the Goverment of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Three numbered diagrams on how to sterilise needles with the message to protect yourself and others against HIV; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Folkehelsa Statens Institutt for Folkehelse (Norwegian Institute of Public Health). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Cholera : caused by food infected by the excretions of a previous case : how to prevent ... / Shanghai Municipal Council Public Health Department.
  • The risks of getting HIV infection including a table with statistics (Malayalam version); part 2 of 2 posters by the State AIDS Project Cell with support from Unicef. Colour lithograph by the Centre for AIDS Research and Control (CARC), ca. 1997.
  • The risks of getting HIV infection including a table with statistics; part 2 of 2 posters by the State AIDS Project Cell with support from Unicef. Colour lithograph by the Centre for AIDS Research and Control (CARC), ca. 1997.
  • A group of men, women and children huddle together representing an advertisement for taking responsibility for protection against AIDS by the NACO in collaboration with WHO. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A disillusioned looking doctor holding a stethoscope looks down at his patient who is flattened by a large expanse of black bearing the words 'AIDS still no cure' with a reminder to practice safe sex; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Central Health Education Bureau in New Delhi. Colour lithograph, 1991.
  • An illustrated list of ways in which people can be protected from AIDS, from washing their hands to sterilising euipqment properly; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Cell of the Directorate of Health Service, Goverment of New Delhi. Colour lithograph by Ravi Chopra, ca. 1995.