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  • A green wall bearing numerous German graffiti phrases about sex with a pair of lips, a drawing of a bottom, an arrowed heart bearing the letters 'T + B' and an umbrella; an advertisement for condoms as a protection against AIDS by the Authority of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, Hamburg. Colour lithograph.
  • A silver condom packet emerging out of a small white bag attached to a key ring with the comment that your condom is safe with your keys; the bag bears an illustration of a running condom holding an umbrella; an advertisement for safe sex by the Ministère de la Santé in association with World AIDS Day 1996. Colour lithograph.
  • Ricinus communis L. Euphorbiaceae Castor oil plant. Palma Christi. Distribution: Mediterranean, E Africa, India. The seeds themselves are pretty, brown, bean-like usually with gold filigree markings on them, and the interior of the seed is the source of castor oil. The outer coat of the seed is the source of the poison ricin, famous (infamous) for the umbrella murder of Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. The KGB are alleged to have killed Georgi Markov, a dissident Bulgarian journalist, with a pellet containing 0.28mgm of ricin fired into his leg using a specially adapted air gun in an umbrella. While his symptoms were those of ricin poisoning, no ricin was ever found in the pellet that was extracted from his leg. Two seeds, chewed and ingested are said to be fatal, but most people vomit and get rid of the toxin. Ducks are resistant to ricin, and need to ingest more than 80 to be fatal! In Peru the leaves are used as a tea for stomach ache, although they contain small amounts of ricin. It is called Palma Christi in early herbals because of the five pointed leaves, which schematically represent a hand. It is a monotypic genus in the spurge family. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ricinus communis L. Euphorbiaceae Castor oil plant. Palma Christi. Distribution: Mediterranean, E Africa, India. The seeds themselves are pretty, brown, bean-like usually with gold filigree markings on them, and the interior of the seed is the source of castor oil. The outer coat of the seed is the source of the poison ricin, famous (infamous) for the umbrella murder of Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. The KGB are alleged to have killed Georgi Markov, a dissident Bulgarian journalist, with a pellet containing 0.28mgm of ricin fired into his leg using a specially adapted air gun in an umbrella. While his symptoms were those of ricin poisoning, no ricin was ever found in the pellet that was extracted from his leg. Two seeds, chewed and ingested are said to be fatal, but most people vomit and get rid of the toxin. Ducks are resistant to ricin, and need to ingest more than 80 to be fatal! In Peru the leaves are used as a tea for stomach ache, although they contain small amounts of ricin. It is called Palma Christi in early herbals because of the five pointed leaves, which schematically represent a hand. It is a monotypic genus in the spurge family. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ricinus communis L. Euphorbiaceae Castor oil plant. Palma Christi. Distribution: Mediterranean, E Africa, India. The seeds themselves are pretty, brown, bean-like usually with gold filigree markings on them, and the interior of the seed is the source of castor oil. The outer coat of the seed is the source of the poison ricin, famous (infamous) for the umbrella murder of Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. The KGB are alleged to have killed Georgi Markov, a dissident Bulgarian journalist, with a pellet containing 0.28mgm of ricin fired into his leg using a specially adapted air gun in an umbrella. While his symptoms were those of ricin poisoning, no ricin was ever found in the pellet that was extracted from his leg. Two seeds, chewed and ingested are said to be fatal, but most people vomit and get rid of the toxin. Ducks are resistant to ricin, and need to ingest more than 80 to be fatal! In Peru the leaves are used as a tea for stomach ache, although they contain small amounts of ricin. It is called Palma Christi in early herbals because of the five pointed leaves, which schematically represent a hand. It is a monotypic genus in the spurge family. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Ricinus communis L. Euphorbiaceae Castor oil plant. Palma Christi. Distribution: Mediterranean, E Africa, India. The seeds themselves are pretty, brown, bean-like usually with gold filigree markings on them, and the interior of the seed is the source of castor oil. The outer coat of the seed is the source of the poison ricin, famous (infamous) for the umbrella murder of Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. The KGB are alleged to have killed Georgi Markov, a dissident Bulgarian journalist, with a pellet containing 0.28mgm of ricin fired into his leg using a specially adapted air gun in an umbrella. While his symptoms were those of ricin poisoning, no ricin was ever found in the pellet that was extracted from his leg. Two seeds, chewed and ingested are said to be fatal, but most people vomit and get rid of the toxin. Ducks are resistant to ricin, and need to ingest more than 80 to be fatal! In Peru the leaves are used as a tea for stomach ache, although they contain small amounts of ricin. It is called Palma Christi in early herbals because of the five pointed leaves, which schematically represent a hand. It is a monotypic genus in the spurge family. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • James Muir. Photograph.
  • An army hospital nurse in her outdoor uniform. Watercolour by C.C., 1899.
  • A fashionable young lady with large plume in her hat being carried through the town in a sedan chair. Etching, c. 1796.
  • Malaya: a pony and trap being driven down a country road. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • A fashionable young lady with large plume in her hat being carried through the town in a sedan chair. Etching, c. 1796.
  • Malaya: a white hunter resting in the shade as native Malays wait nearby in long grass. Pen drawing by J. Taylor, c. 1879.
  • Two Chinese men stand by a shop window while opium smokers sit on the terrace above. Pencil drawing with sepia wash by W. J. Bellairs, 19th century.
  • Nurses being lectured on bandaging using a mannequin on a hospital ward. Drawing by J. Belon.
  • Nurses being lectured on bandaging using a mannequin on a hospital ward. Drawing by J. Belon.
  • Indian hunter and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • London Ophthalmic Infirmary, and the Catholic church, Finsbury. Coloured engraving by R. Acon after T. H. Shepherd.
  • London Ophthalmic Infirmary, and the Catholic church, Finsbury. Coloured engraving by R. Acon after T. H. Shepherd.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner, on Greenwich Hill, showing trippers the view with a telescope, and offering clay pipes for sale (?). Wood engraving.
  • Harvest time in a hop-garden in Kent. Wood-engraving, c. 1857 (?).
  • Women eject a drunk and publican from a bar in a crusade against drunkenness. Wood-engraving by A. Joliet, c. 1875, after Castelli.
  • A large kokerite palm (Maximiliana maripa) and the artist drawing it, in a tropical landscape. Chromolithograph by L. Stroobant, c. 1855.
  • Two men, one in Punjabi dress, one in European dress. Watercolour.
  • The Hospital for Consumption, Brompton Road, Fulham: viewed from the road. Lithograph by T. G. Dutton after F. J. Francis, 1844.
  • The Hospital for Consumption, Brompton Road, Fulham: viewed from the road. Lithograph by T. G. Dutton after F. J. Francis, 1844.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor known as Medicine Jack carrying his wares in a knapsack on his back. Coloured lithograph.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.
  • Hyde Park, near Kensington Palace: ladies and children drinking from a spring and eating a picnic. Engraving by J. Godby, 1802, after Mary Spilsbury.
  • Theodora de Verdion, an eccentric teacher of languages, a book seller and collector of medals. Engraving, 1803.