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  • A woman, previously designated as Elizabeth Garrett Anderson or Isabel Thorne. Oil painting.
  • A woman, previously designated as Elizabeth Garrett Anderson or Isabel Thorne. Oil painting.
  • A woman, previously designated as Elizabeth Garrett Anderson or Isabel Thorne. Oil painting.
  • A woman, previously designated as Elizabeth Garrett Anderson or Isabel Thorne. Oil painting.
  • A woman, previously designated as Elizabeth Garrett Anderson or Isabel Thorne. Oil painting.
  • A woman, previously designated as Elizabeth Garrett Anderson or Isabel Thorne. Oil painting.
  • Thomas Thorne in character as a barber shaving a man. Process print, ca. 1886.
  • A girl leans against cushions on a sofa while playing a zither which she holds on her lap. Etching by James Dobie, 1891, after William Thorne.
  • Christ crowned with thorns. Engraving after A. Durer, 1512.
  • The Cross and Crown of Thorns with a bunch of roses. Chromolithograph.
  • Four plants, all with different forms of tendrils or thorns. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Saint Audomar (Omer): he mortifies his flesh by lying down naked on thorns. Engraving, 1587.
  • Saint Louis carrying the crown of thorns through the streets of Sens. Pencil drawing after B. Gaillot, 1824.
  • Sappanwood tree (Caesalpinia sappan): flowering branch, pod and thorns. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1799, after J. Ihle.
  • The case of the Hertfordshire witchcraft consider'd. : Being an examination of a book entitl'd A full and impartial account of the discovery of sorcery and witchcraft practis'd by Jane Wenham of Walkern, upon the bodies of Anne Thorne, Anne Street, &c.
  • Christ is paraded before the people wearing a crown of thorns. Etching by F.P. Massau after J.F. Overbeck, 1848.
  • Jesus is exhibited to the people wearing a crown of thorns. Line engraving by Agostino Carracci, 1587, after A. Allegri, il Correggio.
  • The mocking and flagellation of Christ; he is crowned with thorns and beaten with sticks. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after L. Carracci.
  • Christ wearing the crown of thorns is presented by Pilate to the Jews. Engraving by G.T. Doo, 1850, after A. Allegri, il Correggio.
  • The mocking and flagellation of Christ; he is crowned with thorns and handed a reed as a mock sceptre. Line engraving by S.A. Bolswert after A. van Dyck.
  • A huntsman on his horse, surrounded by a pack of hounds. Colour lithograph, by H. Thornely, 1902.
  • A cross incorporating a montage of pink heart muscles, pink triangles, crossed red and green squares, the AIDS red ribbon on a stamp, flowers, a hand and a version of the American flag; on a background coloured in green crayon incorporating a montage of photographs including Christ's head of thorns and a hand injecting a syringe into an arm; on a further black background bearing the brown lettering: 'el colonialismo' [colonialism]; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Juan Sánchez, ca. 1995.
  • Euphorbia milii Des Moul. Euphorbiaceae. Crown of Thorns - so called because of its very spiny stems. Distribution: Madagascar. The latex contains a copper-containing amine oxidase, a lectin, lipase, peroxidase, and a diamine oxidase. In vitro the latex is synergistic with ketoconazole against Candida albicans (thrush). All Euphorbia have a toxic white latex, and in Europe this has been used as a folk remedy to treat warts. It can cause skin allergies and the smoke from burning them is toxic. the genus named for Euphorbus (fl. circa 10 BC – 20 AD), the Greek physician to the Berber King Juba II (c. 50 BC – 23 AD) of Numidia, Euphorbia milii is one of the tropical spurges, with fierce, cactus-like spines, grown as a house plant. The sap of spurges is used in folk medicine for treating warts (not very effective), and, historically, as a purgative - the word spurge being derived from the French word for purgation. The sap (probably dried) was administered inside a fig because it is so corrosive that it would otherwise burn the mouth and oesophagus – a technique used today, rather more subtly, with ‘enteric coated’ medications. The sap contains a potential anti-leukaemic chemical, lasiodoplin, and is also used in drainage ditches to kill the snails which carry the parasitic trematode which causes fasciolaris. It does not kill the fish. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Brown long-eared bat, x-ray.
  • Mouthpart from a naval ship worm (Teredo navalis), X-ray
  • Mole skull and paw showing 6th digit, X-ray
  • Wood burrows from a naval ship worm (Teredo navalis), X-ray
  • Pasta bow ties, X-ray
  • Daffodils (Narcissus), x-ray
  • Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), X-ray