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Vane, Sir John, FRS (1927-2004), PharmacologistDate: 1973-1979Reference: PP/JRV/D/1Part of: Vane, Sir John Robert (1927-2004)- Archives and manuscripts
Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
Royal Army Medical CorpsDate: 17th century - 20th centuryReference: RAMC- Books
In praise of walking : the new science of how we walk and why it's good for us / Shane O'Mara.
O'Mara, S. M. (Shane M.)Date: 2019- 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
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0007934 - C0010148
Date: 1999-c.2001Reference: WT/B/11/1/35Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Videos
The men who made us thin. Part 4.
Date: 2013- Archives and manuscripts
Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene
Date: 1892-1997Reference: SA/RSP/BPart of: Royal Society for Public Health and predecessors- Books
Science of the people : understanding and using science in everyday contexts / Joan Solomon.
Solomon, Joan, 1932-Date: 2013- Videos
One of them is Brett.
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- Online
One of them is Brett.
Date: 1965- Videos
Prosthetic limbs. Children.
Date: 197?- Film
Prosthetic limbs. Children.
Date: 197?- Digital Images
- Online
Salvia coahuilensis Fernald Lamiaceae Coahuila Sage. Perennial shrub. Distribution: Mexico. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Its health giving properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Salvia nemorosa L. Lamiaceae Woodland sage. Balkan clary Distribution: Central Europe, Western Asia. Most of the historical medicinal literature is on common sage, Salvia officinalis. The name Salvia meaning 'healthy'. Elizabeth Blackwell (1737) wrote that it had "... all the noble Properties of the other hot Plants more especially for the Head, Memory, Eyes, and all Paralytical Affections. In short, 'tis a Plant endu'd with so many and wonderful Properties, as that the assiduous use of it is said to render Men Immortal" with which Hans Sloane agreed. Linnaeus (1782) also: 'Timor, Languor, Leucorrhoea, Senectus [fear, tiredness, white vaginal discharge, old age]'. Its health giving and immortality conferring properties were recorded in the aphorisms of the School of Salerno (fl 9-13th century) - quoted in the Decameron [c.1350, translated: Why should man die when Salvia grows in the Garden']. Some salvias, such as Salvia divinorum contain hallucinogenic compounds. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Videos
The disabled century. Part 2, 1945-1969.
Date: 1999- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1928-1929Reference: WF/M/GB/30/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1922-1923Reference: WF/M/GB/30/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Videos
Ebola the search for a cure.
Date: 2014- Books
Out of the blue / Susan Aldworth.
Aldworth, SusanDate: 2020- Books
Disabled children : a legal handbook.
Broach, SteveDate: 2016- Film
War to the last itch.
Date: 1973- Books
The rough guide to psychology / Christian Jarrett.
Jarrett, Christian.Date: 2011- Books
A pocket guide to COVID-19 etiquette with Elaine Swann : by Malaka Gharib.
Gharib, MalakaDate: [2020]- Videos
Autism. Challenging behaviour.
Date: 2013- Videos
Secrets of the sequence. Pt. 102.
Date: 2002