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  • Bio Activia with Bifidus essensis cultures : when you're healthy on the inside, it shows on the outside / Danone Limited (UK).
  • Bio Activia with Bifidus essensis cultures : when you're healthy on the inside, it shows on the outside / Danone Limited (UK).
  • The road outside Ford's Hospital, Coventry. Steel engraving.
  • Hospital of the Medical Department of the U.S. Army, Philadelphia: with hospital tents outside. Photograph, 1876.
  • The Pasteur Institute Hospital, Kasauli, India: Indian patients outside the accommodation building. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • The Pasteur Institute Hospital, Kasauli, India: Indian patients grouped outside the inoculation building. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: the isolation hospital seen from outside. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: a large crowd outside the wall with constables struggling to keep order. Wood engraving.
  • The main road outside the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury. Line engraving by G. Dawe after C. Dillon.
  • Figures standing outside the Trades' Maiden Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland. Line engraving by A. Cruse after T.H. Shepherd.
  • World War One: an Italian field hospital with soldiers standing at the entrance and a well outside. Photograph, 1917.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers waiting outside a field hospital for examination by the surgeon. Halftone after R. Thiele, c.1900.
  • Boer War: a group of nuns outside the military hospital at Mafeking, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Emerson Neilly.
  • Bombay plague epidemic, 1896-1897: plague hospital, with stretcher carriers and staff standing outside the buildings. Photograph by Clifton & Co.
  • Boer War: soldiers from the Imperial Yeomanry and a nurse outside a military hospital tent. Process print after J. Hall Edwards, 1900.
  • Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund Convalescent Home, Kewstoke, Weston-super-Mare: nurses (?) outside the patients' entrance. Photograph by R.W. Brown & Son, 1936.
  • Boer War: the Doecker Hospital Huts at Netley with patients and a horse-drawn carriage outside. Halftone, 1900, after a photograph by S. Cribb.
  • Basra, Iraq: the Indian General Hospital: milk is served from large metal bowls to waiting men outside the Indian cook house (a straw hut). Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • The Therapeutic Institute for Leprosy, Tocunduba, Pará, Brazil: patients and staff are grouped outside and at the balconies to large, arched windows of a hospital building. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Bartholomew Fair, London: scene of night-time revelry at the fair in Smithfield, outside St Bartholomew's Hospital. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck after A. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • Bartholomew Fair, London: scene of night-time revelry at the fair in Smithfield, outside St Bartholomew's Hospital. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck after A. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1808.
  • Veratrum nigrum L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and, when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying-in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum - and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Veratrum album L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum -and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Bruce Conner, 'Fame, October 18', 1989
  • Dan Godfrey dressed in Pierrette costume, performing for "The Timbertown Follies" at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Dan Godfrey dressed in Pierrette costume, performing for "The Timbertown Follies" at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Four British prisoners of war, posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Four British prisoners of war, posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A British prisoner of war in drag, performing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A soldier in drag modelling for "The Timbertown Follies" at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.