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  • Women gathering leaves of the coca plant (Erythroxylum coca) in Bolivia. Wood engraving, c. 1867.
  • From: Dowdeswell's 'The coca leaf'
  • From: Dowdeswell's 'The coca leaf'
  • From: Dowdeswell's 'The coca leaf'
  • Nelson & Co. Armbrecht, ad for coca wine
  • Advertisement for 'Savar's Coca Wine'
  • An Inca man requests a goddess of the Incas to hand over coca, but she refuses, holding a bottle of coca wine for herself. Colour lithograph by A. Mucha, 189-.
  • Hall's Coca Wine : a marvellous restorative / Stephen Smith & Co.
  • A coca plantation in Peru in which stands an armed man and his dogs. Lithograph after Lieut. L. Gibbon.
  • Hall's Coca Wine : the elixir of life / Stephen Smith & Co. Ltd.
  • Advert for Hall's Coca Wine: The Elixir of Life, an early product that used cocaine as an ingredient.
  • Erythroxylum coca Lam. Erythroxylaceae Coca. Distribution: Peru . Cocaine is extracted from the leaf. It is no longer in the UK Pharmacopoeia (used to be used as a euphoriant in ‘Brompton Mixture’ for terminally ill patients). Cocaine, widely used as a local anaesthetic until 1903, inhibits re-uptake of dopamine and serotonin at brain synapses so these mood elevating chemicals build up and cause a ‘high’. Its use was often fatal. Coca leaf chewing was described by Nicolas Monardes (1569
  • Peru : History of coca, "the divine plant" of the Incas / with an introductory account of the Incas, and of the Andean Indians of to-day, by W. Golden Mortimer.
  • Opus Merlini Cocaii ... Totum in pristinam formam per me Magistrum Aequarium Lodolam optime redactum in his ... titulis divisum. Zanitonella ... Phantasiae Macaronicon ... Moschaeae Facetus ... Libellus epistolarum / [Teofilo Folengo].
  • Commit to get fit : Quorn : help your body be somebody : in aid of Macmillan cancer relief : July 2002... / Oasis Sports Centre.
  • Commit to get fit : Quorn : help your body be somebody : in aid of Macmillan cancer relief : July 2002... / Oasis Sports Centre.
  • Tonic wines ephemera. Box 1.
  • Tonic wines ephemera. Box 1.
  • Tonic wines ephemera. Box 1.
  • Meal deal : more choice / Boots.
  • Meal deal : more choice / Boots.
  • Cod liver oil emulsion with hypophosphites : perfect, inseparable, & palatable : gold medal, Rio de Janeiro, 1909 ... / Baiss Brothers & Stevenson Limited.
  • Cod liver oil emulsion with hypophosphites : perfect, inseparable, & palatable : gold medal, Rio de Janeiro, 1909 ... / Baiss Brothers & Stevenson Limited.
  • Hall's Wine : the great restorative / Stephen Smith & Co., Ltd.
  • Free meal deal : award winning quality : original German sausages : retail, wholesale, mobile catering / The Sausage Man.
  • Free meal deal : award winning quality : original German sausages : retail, wholesale, mobile catering / The Sausage Man.
  • Lip kissing, tit clamping, bottom spanking, thigh slapping, leather wearing, rubber stretching, arse licking, bath taking, body beating, hard wanking, butch wrestling ... : safer sex... it's the real thing / produced by Kensington, Chelsea, Westminster & Brent Health Promotion Unit in conjunction with West London Health Promotion Agency.
  • Tasty offers : offers valid until 9th March 2008 only at McDonald's Restaurant 166/172 Lewisham High Street, London.
  • Tasty offers : offers valid until 9th March 2008 only at McDonald's Restaurant 166/172 Lewisham High Street, London.
  • A pregnant woman rests by a tree: advert for a video 'Time To Care' to mark World Health Day 1998. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health, 1998.