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  • Tussilago farfara L. Asteraceae. Coltsfoot. Distribution: Europe, N. Africa, W & N Asia . Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘Tussilago. Coltsfoot. ... they are admirable good for coughs and consumptions of the lungs, shortness of breath etc. It is often used and with great success taken in a tobacco pipe, being cut and mixed with a little oil of Annis seeds.’ It is hepatotoxic genotoxic and carcinogenic due to the pyrrolizidine alkaloids that it contains. It should not be taken internally (Medicines Control Agency, 2002). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Fifty four different African pipes. Chromolithograph by Schmidt, c. 1863.
  • An African chief smoking a very elaborately carved tobacco-pipe. Process print.
  • An African chief of the Barotsi tribe smoking his pipe which is held by a woman. Wood-engraving.
  • Three pictures from a missionary enterprise on the Upper Zambesia: an African chief smoking; a missionary's wife quarters; Africans building a church. Wood-engravings.
  • An African dentist performing an operation on a patient that he is restraining with a wooden stick. Wood engraving by MD.
  • Fourteen pipes and smoking accessories from various countries. Wood engraving, ca. 1882.
  • Melilotus officinalis (Common melilot). Also known as Sweet clover
  • Melilotus officinalis (Common melilot). Also known as Sweet clover
  • Melilotus officinalis (Common melilot)