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The Museum of Practical Geology, Piccadilly: the interior. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1848, after B. Sly.
Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.Date: 1848Reference: 40340i- Pictures
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Textiles: women and children working at large cotton manufacturing machines. Engraving.
Reference: 31387i- Digital Images
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Nepal; children of the Terai, Rapti Valley, 1986
Carole Reeves- Digital Images
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Taxus baccata L. Taxaceae European Yew. Trees are feminine in Latin, so while Taxus has a masculine ending (-us), its specific name, baccata (meaning 'having fleshy berries' (Stearn, 1994)), agrees with it in gender by having a female ending ( -a). Distribution: Europe. Although regarded as poisonous since Theophrastus, Gerard and his school friends used to eat the red berries (they are technically called 'arils') without harm. Johnson clearly ate the fleshy arils and spat out the seed, which is as poisonous as the leaves. It is a source of taxol, an important chemotherapeutic agent for breast and other cancers. It was first extracted from the bark of T. brevifolia, the Pacific yew tree, in 1966. About 1,100 kg of bark produces 10 g of taxol, and 360,000 trees a year would have been required for the needs of the USA – an unsustainable amount. In 1990 a precursor of taxol was extracted from the needles of the European yew so saving the Pacific trees. It is now produced in fermentation tanks from cell cultures of Taxus. Curiously, there is a fungus, Nodulisporium sylviforme, which lives on the yew tree, that also produces taxol. Because taxol stops cell division, it is also used in the stents that are inserted to keep coronary arteries open. Here it inhibits – in a different way, but like anti-fouling paint on the bottom of ships – the overgrowth of endothelial cells that would otherwise eventually block the tube. The economic costs of anticancer drugs are significant. Paclitaxel ‘Taxol’ for breast cancer costs (2012) £246 every 3 weeks
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Catalogue of surgical instruments. Arnold and Sons, 1885
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Share-dealers and ruined speculators confronting each other in a crowded street during the share price boom of 1720. Etching after A. Humblot, ca. 1720.
Humblot, Antoine, -1758.Date: [1720?]Reference: 3783iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A procession of carriages carrying King William IV and the Queen and pedestrians headed by a beefeater. Lithograph by John Doyle, 1831.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: Sept 7 1831Reference: 651612iPart of: HB sketches- Pictures
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A dwarf holding his hat. Engraving.
Reference: 4000iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The performance of a play representing the Dutch share price boom of 1720: Bombario blows bubbles before Princess Quinquenpoix. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812285iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
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The burghers of the Dutch Republic are celebrating the death of Pope Clement XI; they are led by Death and devils to a picture showing the dying Clement XI and the new pope, Innocent XIII. Etching.
Reference: 42557iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Death as an allegory of the Dutch financial crisis of 1720-1721. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720]Reference: 816096iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Investors in the Dutch share boom of 1720 are incited by Jupiter, judged by Apollo, punished by Hercules, and deported to Hades. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812445iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The Old Exchange in Amsterdam: dealers offer share certificates for sale during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811510iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A Dutch physician involved in share dealing in the Dutch speculation explosion of 1720. Engraving, 1720.
Date: 1720Reference: 17580iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
People ruined by the Dutch financial crisis of 1720 go by carriage to the cities of Vianen and Culemborg to seek refuge from creditors. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812368iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
At the request of John Law, Deception blinds the world, thus obscuring the disastrous consequences of Law's financial schemes. Etching by Pieter van den Berge, 1720.
Berge, Pieter van den, active 1689-1737.Date: [1720?]Reference: 814387iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
John Law as Don Quixote with Bombario as Sancho Panza. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812234iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Bombario riding on a pig, representing deformity of trade in the Dutch share boom of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 814376iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A putto encourages a lion to attack a unicorn; representing the desperation of speculators who lost their fortunes after the Dutch share boom of 1720 and turned to other ways to make money. Etching by P. van den Berge, 1720.
Berge, Pieter van den, active 1689-1737.Date: [1720?]Reference: 812492iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Bombario as Aesop mocks monkeys eating cabbage, who represent investors in the Dutch share boom of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 814377iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The Dutch financial crisis of 1720: the city of Amsterdam represents the voice of reason and resists disastrous speculation, while investors elsewhere are ruined . Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812357iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The tribulations of investors in the Dutch share boom of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812466iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Jupiter as the god of the sky and Mercury as the god of trade pass over the land on a cloud; below, men engaged in speculative share dealings in the Dutch share boom of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 2500242iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Wind as an analogy for speculative short-selling in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720-1721, and a warning to John Law about the indulgences of Shrove Tuesday. Etching, 1721.
Date: [1721]Reference: 816084iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A dealer in inflated share-values in the Dutch share boom of 1720 is surrounded by symbols of inflation and corruption. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 2500241iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.