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Acanthus spinosus L. Acanthaceae. Bears breeches. Distribution: Southern Europe to Western Turkey. Herbaceous perennial flowering plant. Named for spiny leaves. Dioscorides recommended the roots applied for inflammation and spasms, and -when drunk- to promote urine, check diarrhoea, and for phthysis, ruptures and convulsions. The leaves are the model for those at the top of Corinthian columns. Tetraglycosides isolated from the plant show cytotoxicity in sea urchin eggs and crown gall tumour on potato disks. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
Crossed-out glasses filled with alcohol, lined up along the road; warning against drinking while driving. Colour lithograph for the Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft, ca. 2000 (?).
Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft.Date: [2000?]Reference: 780414i- Pictures
The white markings on a twisting road seen through a wine glass. Lithograph designed by Hans Tanner.
Tanner, Hans.Date: [between 1960 and 1969?]Reference: 575159i- Pictures
A man who refuses a glass of wine because he is driving. Colour lithograph after G. Nicolitch, 1965.
Nicolitch, G. (Designer)Date: [1965]Reference: 675237i- Pictures
Women and childen hold up a banner in front of a speeding car and train, proclaiming abstinence from alcohol in association with traffic and transport. Colour lithograph by Nico van Zalingen, 1934.
Zalingen, Nico van.Date: 1934Reference: 583305i- Books
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The touchstone, or, Trial of tobacco : whether it be good for all constitutions : with a word of advice against immoderate drinking and smoaking : likewise examples of some that have drunk their lives away, and died suddenly : with King Jame's [sic] opinion of tobacco, and how it came first into England : also the first original of coffee : to which is added, witty poems about tobacco and coffe [sic] : something about tobacco, written by George Withers, the late famous poet.
Date: 1676- Books
Drink, drugs and driving / by H.J. Walls and Alistair R. Brownlie.
Walls, H. J. (Henry James)Date: 1970- Pictures
A clear road ahead, from the clear-headed point of view of the driver who has not taken alcohol. Colour lithograph, 196-.
Date: [between 1960 and 1969?]Reference: 573179i- Pictures
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A skull in a drinking glass at the steering wheel of a motor vehicle, representing the fatal effects of drunken driving. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 32611i- Books
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A statute for swearers and drunkards, or Forsake now your follies, your booke cannot saue you, for if you sweare and be drunke, the stockes will haue you : To the tune of When canons are roaring.
Date: [1624]- Books
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Times alteration: or, The old mans rehearsall, what braue dayes he knew a great while agone, when his old cap was new : To the tune of, He nere be drunke againe.
M. P. (Martin Parker), -1656?Date: [1629]- Pictures
A road traffic sign with two wine glasses, one trying to overtake the other; a warning against drinking and driving. Colour lithograph after Schoumann.
Schoumann.Date: [1953?]Reference: 537102i- Books
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Warm beere, or a treatise wherein is declared by many reasons, that beere so qualified is farre more wholesome then that which is drunke cold. With a confutation of such objections that are made against it / [Anon].
Date: 1641- Pictures
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Two men, possibly students, undressing a drunken doctor they have carried home, verse below. Lithograph.
Reference: 26911i- Pictures
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A traffic signal that is bent and broken, with a vodka bottle jammed in its stem; representing vodka as a cause of driving accidents. Colour lithograph, 19--.
Kaja, H.Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 660229i- Pictures
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Two men, possibly students, carrying home a drunken doctor laid out on a door, verse below. Lithograph.
Reference: 26909i- Books
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Warm beere, or A treatise wherein is declared by many reasons, that beere so qualified is farre more wholsome then that which is drunke cold : With a confutation of such objections that are made against it; published for the preservation of health.
Date: 1641- Books
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Warm beere, or, A treatise wherein is declared by many reasons that beere so qualified is farre more wholsome then that which is drunke cold : with a confutation of such objections that are made against it, published for the preservation of health.
Date: 1641- Pictures
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A bottle of alcoholic drink with a red flag attached to it; advertising the danger of driving after drinking. Colour lithograph, 193-.
Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]Reference: 659658i- Ephemera
Community health : drinking & driving don't mix : Australia, 41c.
Date: [1990]- Pictures
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A vodka bottle on its side driven like a sports car; representing people who drink and drive as criminals. Colour lithograph by Z. Waszewski, 1961.
Waszewski, Zbigniew.Date: [1961]Reference: 657187i- Books
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Drinking and driving : report of the Departmental Committee [on Drinking and Driving].
Great Britain. Departmental Committee on Drinking and Driving.Date: 1976- E-books
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Hippesly's drunken man[.]
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A drunken farmer is brought home where he is met by his wife and various farm animals. Engraving, c. 1750 (?).
Date: 1750Reference: 26873i- E-books
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The New drunken oration