Steroids : gay men, sex and drugs / Terrence Higgins Trust.

A weight-lifter sits on a bench with his weights at his side as someone offers him a steroid injection; a warning not to share vials and used needles for steroids; advertisement for The Steroid Project as part of the Kingston AIDS Project funded by the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada. Colour lithograph by Alice Whissell.

A man and woman dressed in swimwear flexing their muscles with their arms above their heads representing the risks of injecting steroids and contracting the HIV virus; advertisement by the Public Health Department of North York, Ontario. Colour lithograph.

Solanum laciniatum Aiton Solanaceae. Kangaroo Apple. Evergreen shrub. Distribution: New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. It contains steroidal saponins that can be converted into steroids, including progesterone, oestrogens, cortisone, prednisolone etc. In 1943, Professor Russell Marker discovered a method of obtaining an unsaturated steroidal saponine, diosogenin, from Mexican yam (Dioscorea mexicana), which can easily and cheaply be converted into steroids, such as prednisone and progesterone, reducing the price of steroid production to a fraction (0.5%) of its former cost. For 20 years drug companies showed little interest, and it was only as a result of Professor Marker forming his own company, and the concerted efforts of several gynaecologists, physiologists and birth-control advocates, that the contraceptive pill was ‘born’ in 1960. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Applying steroid ointment to eczema - hand

Propaderm topical steroid therapy in eczemas and dermatoses : Montagu's harrier.

Camassia leichtlinii (Baker)S.Watson Hyacinthaceae. Great Camas, Quamash. The species was named for Maximillian Leichtlin (1831-1910 of Baden , Germany, bulb enthusiast who corresponded with J.G. Baker at Kew. Bulbous herb. Distribution: North America. The bulbs of Camassia species were eaten by the Native Americans, the Nez Perce, after cooking by steaming for a day - which suggests they may be poisonous raw. They gave them to the American explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clerk, on their expedition (1804-1806) when they ran out of food. The bulbs of the similar looking 'Death camus', Toxicoscordion venenosum have been fatal when ingested by mistake (RBG Kew on-line). Steroidal saponins, which are precursors in the manufacture of steroids and cytotoxic activity has been detected in the sap of the bulbs. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Applying hydrocortisone cream to eczema

How to prevent rebound psoriasis : Dithrocream: now the most practical treatment for psoriasis.

Propaderm cream, ointment and lotion : sand martin.

Propaderm cream, ointment and lotion : nuthatch.

Propaderm cream, ointment and lotion : black redstart.

Propaderm (beclomethasone dipropionate BP for use on the skin) : fieldfare.

Burroughs Wellcome & Co. sex hormones in veterinary practice / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.)

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