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  • Trandate tablets : thrush.
  • Trandate tablets : thrush.
  • A thrush eating berries. Etching by W. Hayes, ca. 1775.
  • A blackbird and a thrush on a branch of holly. Colour lithograph by Leighton Brothers after H. Weir, 1859.
  • Foot-rot paste : invaluable for foot-rot in sheep, thrush, inflammation or ulcers in horses feet : directions: to be applied to the affected parts.
  • Seed head of a thuja tree. This plant has natural antimicrobial properties and is used in a variety of preparations for wart removal, thrush, and ringworm.
  • Above, two humming birds, two molluscs, a mocking thrush, a hoopoe, and a racoon; below, a bat, a wasp, two mongooses, a vulture, a fish and a polar bear. Engraving.
  • 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.
  • Cells infected with candida yeast, LM
  • Macrophages infected with Candida yeast spores, TEM
  • Macrophage infected with Candida yeast spores, TEM
  • Macrophages infected with Candida yeast spores, SEM
  • Macrophages infected with candida yeast, LM
  • Macrophages infected with candida yeast, LM
  • The face of a woman looks out with side profiles of three other male and female faces and the back view of another woman's head; a warning that AIDS is not the only sexually transmissible disease by the AIDS/STD Unit, Health Department Victoria. Colour lithograph, July 1992.
  • Welcome to the new day : stars of the dawn chorus : the songthrush.
  • Welcome to the new day : stars of the dawn chorus : the songthrush.
  • Canesten combination treatments : it takes two.
  • Canesten combination treatments : it takes two.
  • Canesten combination treatments : it takes two.
  • Canesten combination treatments : it takes two.
  • Canesten combination treatments : it takes two.
  • Page of text from Matthew Baillie, "A Series of Engravings"
  • Canesten.
  • Canesten.
  • Why Dinneford's is different...
  • Why Dinneford's is different...
  • Carpobrotus acinaciformis (L.) L.Bolus Aizoaceae. Eland's Sour fig. Sally-my-handsome, its other common name is a corruption of Mesembryanthemum (acinaciforme) which was the genus ascribed to it by Linnaeus (1753) Succulent perennial. Distribution: South Africa. Antibacterial compounds have been isolated from it, it is rich in tannins. The leaf sap is used to treat infections of the mouth and throat. In South African ‘muthi’ medicine, the sap is used as a gargle for sore throats
  • Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii