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  • Reducing salt : preventing stroke / CASH, the Stroke Association.
  • Advances in stroke treatment.
  • Advances in stroke treatment
  • Acu-moxa chart: paralysis following stroke, Chinese MS
  • C14 Chinese medication chart: Pestilence and damp stroke
  • Experiments concerning the different efficacy of pointed and blunted rods, in securing buildings against the stroke of lightning / [William Henley].
  • Two women stroke the face of a man bearing the words 'Play boy' on his t-shirt with 2 other couples sitting on benches looking on from either side; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Planned Parenthood Association of Sierra Leone. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A message in Italian yellow lettering asking can you stroke an HIV positive person with the answer yes because AIDS is not contracted in this way; one of a series of safe sex posters from a 'Stop AIDS' poster campaign by Aiuto AIDS Svizzero, in collaboration with the Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • A gynaecologist strokes his long red beard. Colour process print by C. Josef, c. 1930.
  • A gynaecologist strokes his long red beard. Colour process print by C. Josef, c. 1930.
  • A skeleton dressed in a coat sits on a balcony and strokes a raven. Process print after Walter Appleton Clark.
  • Left, red upright strokes and a face in profile; right, red diagonals, saltires and crosses. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • An African/Caribbean man lying on grass strokes the face of his partner opposite in an advertisement for London Black Mesmac. Colour lithograph.
  • Left, red upright strokes and diagonals around an apple; right, red diagonals, a saltire and a face in profile. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • A woman in white underwear strokes the hair of a man lying down wearing boxer shorts with a portable radio, their car and a fox in the undergrowth nearby; two packs of red condoms lie in a bag to the left; an Italian version of a series of Stop AIDS campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with Aiuto AIDS Svizzero. Colour lithograph.
  • A mother sits by her child's bed stroking his face while he sleeps. Engraving.
  • A woman in white underwear strokes the hair of a man lying down wearing boxer shorts with a portable radio, their car and a fox in the undergrowth nearby; two packs of red condoms lie in a bag to the left; German version of a series of safe sex 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health in collaboration with the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz. Colour lithograph.
  • A girl stroking a puppy, and being nudged with affection by the puppy's mother. Stipple engraving by J. Godby, 1799, after G. Testolini after W. Miller.
  • Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. Ranunculaceae Distribution: Europe. Lindley (1838) and Woodville (1790) knew this as Anemone pulsatilla, the common name being Pasque (Easter) Flower. At the end of the 18th century it was recommended for blindness, cataracts, syphilis, strokes and much more, treatments which, as was clear to physicians at the time, were valueless. Gerard (1633) writes: ‘They serve only for the adorning of gardens and garlands, being floures of great beauty’. It is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, all members of which are poisonous. It was recommended, by mouth, for ‘obstinate case of taenia’ (tapeworms). One hopes it was more toxic to the worm than the patient. Flowers with a central disc and radiating florets were regarded as being good for eye complaints under the Doctrine of Signatures. Porta (1588) writes (translated): ‘Argemone [Papaver argemone], and anemone, have flowers of this shape, from this they cure ulcers and cloudiness of the cornea’. There were occupational diseases even before there were words like pneumoconiosis, and Lindley writes that ‘the powder of the root causes itching of the eyes, colic and vomiting, if in pulverising it the operator do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up.’ Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. Ranunculaceae. Pasque flower. Distribution: Europe. Lindley (1838) and Woodville (1790) knew this as Anemone pulsatilla, the common name being Pasque (Easter) Flower. At the end of the 18th century it was recommended for blindness, cataracts, syphilis, strokes and much more, treatments which, as was clear to physicians at the time, were valueless. Gerard (1633) writes: ‘They serve only for the adorning of gardens and garlands, being floures of great beauty’. It is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, all members of which are poisonous. It was recommended, by mouth, for ‘obstinate case of taenia’ (tapeworms). One hopes it was more toxic to the worm than the patient. Flowers with a central disc and radiating florets were regarded as being good for eye complaints under the Doctrine of Signatures. Porta (1588) writes (translated): ‘Argemone [Papaver argemone], and anemone, have flowers of this shape, from this they cure ulcers and cloudiness of the cornea’. There were occupational diseases even before there were words like pneumoconiosis, and Lindley writes that ‘the powder of the root causes itching of the eyes, colic and vomiting, if in pulverising it the operator do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up.’ Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Pulsatilla vulgaris Mill. Ranunculaceae Pasque flower. Distribution: Europe. Lindley (1838) and Woodville (1790) knew this as Anemone pulsatilla, the common name being Pasque (Easter) Flower. At the end of the 18th century it was recommended for blindness, cataracts, syphilis, strokes and much more, treatments which, as was clear to physicians at the time, were valueless. Gerard (1633) writes: ‘They serve only for the adorning of gardens and garlands, being floures of great beauty’. It is in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, all members of which are poisonous. It was recommended, by mouth, for ‘obstinate case of taenia’ (tapeworms). One hopes it was more toxic to the worm than the patient. Flowers with a central disc and radiating florets were regarded as being good for eye complaints under the Doctrine of Signatures. Porta (1588) writes (translated): ‘Argemone [Papaver argemone], and anemone, have flowers of this shape, from this they cure ulcers and cloudiness of the cornea’. There were occupational diseases even before there were words like pneumoconiosis, and Lindley writes that ‘the powder of the root causes itching of the eyes, colic and vomiting, if in pulverising it the operator do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up.’ Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Metemma, Ethiopia: soldiers treating a trooper with severe sunstroke. Gouache by W.S. Paget, 1898, after W.T. Maud.
  • Inside the brain / Wellcome Trust.
  • Did you comb your hair this morning, or did someone help you? : Lioresal / Ciba Laboratories.
  • Did you comb your hair this morning, or did someone help you? : Lioresal / Ciba Laboratories.
  • Did you comb your hair this morning, or did someone help you? : Lioresal / Ciba Laboratories.
  • Did you comb your hair this morning, or did someone help you? : Lioresal / Ciba Laboratories.
  • Salt & blood pressure / CASH.
  • Salt & blood pressure / CASH.
  • Boyer. : Eau des carmes : 16, Mark Lane London : beware of conterfeits.