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  • Surgical stitches and knots. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • A gloved hand making surgical stitches. Coloured pencil drawing, 19--.
  • Surgical stitches and the tying-up of wounds. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • Plate 3, Illustration of a seton stitch.
  • A woman and a girl having an ear and a nose pierced, a boy receiving stitches on his arm and a man having his hair cut, another a shave; a warning about the dangers of using unsterilized equipment and contracting the HIV virus by Spitnacs, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, ca 1997.
  • Fraisenhendchen or Lorettohemdchen; amulet. Image printed on silk and attached to a piece of gauze with cross-stitch.
  • Four diagrams illustrating heads with severe wounds, demonstrating how to stitch the skin back together properly. Stipple engraving by J. Bell.
  • Friern Hospital, London: an emaciated old man, naked, with deformed limbs and stitch marks running from beneath his chin to his penis; three views from different angles. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Xenopus, stitching up skin after egg removal
  • Xenopus, stitching up skin after egg removal
  • Xenopus, stitching up skin after egg removal
  • Xenopus, stitching up skin after egg removal
  • Xenopus, stitching body wall after eggs take
  • Xenopus, stitching up skin after egg removal
  • Xenopus, stitching body wall after eggs take
  • Needle and thread stitching up a wound, artwork
  • A Shuar shrunken head (tsantsa) from Ecuador with a stitched mouth and feather headdress.
  • A Shuar shrunken head (tsantsa) from Ecuador with a stitched mouth and feather headdress.
  • A Shuar shrunken head (tsantsa) from Ecuador with a stitched mouth and feather headdress.
  • The surgeon Capiomont stitching the ear of general Oudinot at the battle of Wagram, 1809. Watercolour by F. Pils.
  • A female Chinese musician with a flute. Collage of glued and stitched colored paper and stuffed silk by a Chinese craftsman/woman.
  • Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • An old shoemaker is stitching a boot as a young woman leans over him holding a jug in her hand. Engraving by P. Duflos, 1778 after D. van Tol.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae. Goatsbeard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae Goats beard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tragopogon pratensis L. Asteraceae. Goatsbeard, Salsify, Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon. Distribution: Europe and North America. This is the Tragopogion luteum or Yellow Goats-beard of Gerard (1633) who recommended them boiled until tender and then buttered as being more delicious than carrots and parsnips and very nutritious for those sick from a long lingering disease. Boiled in wine they were a cure for a 'stitch' in the side. In the USA children collect the milky sap onto a piece of glass and, when dry, chew it as bubble-gum. The name 'Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon' referes to the flowers which close at noon and the spherical radiation of seed plumules which then appear. Salsify is now applied as a name for T. porrifolius and Scorzonera hispanica. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A shoemender and a tailor sitting on benches repairing old shoes and clothes. Etching by R. Dagley.
  • Mouse kidney
  • Inula helenium (Elecampane)