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Advertisement for Florador Food, Florador Food Co., 1888

Food Tables.

Food stall hygiene

Food stall in Indonesia

Food processing: threshing cereals

Food processing: pounding yam

Mellin's Food for infants, Advertisment Card

Food and diet: spices, chilli

Queenn Victoria Coin; Mellin's Food Limited

Queen Victoria Coin; Merllin's Food Limited

Food warmer, Delftware, English, 18th century

Mellin's Food for infants and invalids; book mark

Liverpool Food and Betterment Association. Taking out food to the sick poor.

Ridge's Food for infants. (Boston?): Woolrich & Co. Trade Card

Mellin's Food for infants and invalids : dissolved in diluted cow's milk as directed is acknowledged to be the best substitute for mother's milk : directions for use... / Mellin's Food Limited.

Mellin's emulsion of cod liver oil : palatable and digestible / Mellin's Food Limited.

Illicium anisatum L. Illiciaceae Japanese Star Anise. Distribution Japan. This was also called Illicium religiosum and the fruits are toxic. Effects of taking Illicium anisatum tea include epilepsy, vomiting, shakiness and rapid eye movements (US Food and Drug Administration report, 2003). Lindley (1838) and Bentley (1861) thought that I. anisatum was used in cooking, but they were describing the uses of I. verum which is used as a spice in Asia. Illicium anisatum syn. religiosum is 'used to make incense in Japanese and Chinese temples and was called Skimi by Kaempfer. This derives from the Japanese word 'shi-kimi'. The seed pods of both species contain shikimic acid (the name being derived from the Japanese) from which Tamiflu, the antiviral drug was synthesised. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

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Advertisement for Florador Food, Florador Food Co., 1888

Food Tables.

Food stall hygiene

Food stall in Indonesia

Food processing: threshing cereals

Food processing: pounding yam

Mellin's Food for infants, Advertisment Card

Food and diet: spices, chilli

Queenn Victoria Coin; Mellin's Food Limited

Queen Victoria Coin; Merllin's Food Limited

Food warmer, Delftware, English, 18th century

Mellin's Food for infants and invalids; book mark

Liverpool Food and Betterment Association. Taking out food to the sick poor.

Ridge's Food for infants. (Boston?): Woolrich & Co. Trade Card

Mellin's Food for infants and invalids : dissolved in diluted cow's milk as directed is acknowledged to be the best substitute for mother's milk : directions for use... / Mellin's Food Limited.

Mellin's emulsion of cod liver oil : palatable and digestible / Mellin's Food Limited.

Mould on food

Chinese woodcut, illustrating food poisoning

Chinese woodcut, food incompatibilities

Ephemera Collection, Ivelcon food beverage

Indigestible particle of food

Woman cooking food, Nigeria

Wellcome museum, primitive medicine, food preparation, 1946

Wellcome museum, primitive medicine, food preparation, 1946

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Advertisement for Florador Food, Florador Food Co., 1888

Food Tables.

Food stall hygiene

Food stall in Indonesia

Food processing: threshing cereals

Food processing: pounding yam

Mellin's Food for infants, Advertisment Card

Food and diet: spices, chilli

Queenn Victoria Coin; Mellin's Food Limited

Queen Victoria Coin; Merllin's Food Limited

Food warmer, Delftware, English, 18th century

Mellin's Food for infants and invalids; book mark

Liverpool Food and Betterment Association. Taking out food to the sick poor.

Ridge's Food for infants. (Boston?): Woolrich & Co. Trade Card

Mellin's Food for infants and invalids : dissolved in diluted cow's milk as directed is acknowledged to be the best substitute for mother's milk : directions for use... / Mellin's Food Limited.

Mellin's emulsion of cod liver oil : palatable and digestible / Mellin's Food Limited.

Mould on food

Chinese woodcut, illustrating food poisoning

Chinese woodcut, food incompatibilities

Ephemera Collection, Ivelcon food beverage

Indigestible particle of food

Woman cooking food, Nigeria

Wellcome museum, primitive medicine, food preparation, 1946

Wellcome museum, primitive medicine, food preparation, 1946