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- Archives and manuscripts
Original Laboratory note-book of research work on Trypanosomiasis, Tick Fever, Filaria, etc.
Date: 1902-1903Reference: MS.2254Part of: Dutton, Joseph Everett (1877-1905), and Todd, John Lancelot (1876-1949), tropical medicine specialists- Digital Images
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Fetishes
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Maomedi, an important chief
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'Our caravan on the march'
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Our boys dancing at night to music of Maomedi's band
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A [wadudi] fetish; central African prairie plateau
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A native band owned by Lukala, [chiefteners] at Lusambo
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Crossing a stream.
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Making and unmaking nations : war, leadership, and genocide in modern Africa / Scott Straus.
Straus, Scott, 1970-Date: 2015- Journals
Bulletin de l'Institut français d'Afrique noire.
Date: 1939-1953- Archives and manuscripts
Journal of the Tenth (Trypanosomiasis) Expedition: fragment
Date: 1902-1903Reference: MS.4790Part of: Dutton, Joseph Everett (1877-1905), and Todd, John Lancelot (1876-1949), tropical medicine specialists- Archives and manuscripts
Diary of travels in Gambia and laboratory work
Date: 1903Reference: MS.2250Part of: Dutton, Joseph Everett (1877-1905), and Todd, John Lancelot (1876-1949), tropical medicine specialists- Books
Traces of the future : an archaeology of medical science in Africa / edited by Paul Wenzel Geissler, Guillaume Lachenal, John Manton and Noémi Tousignant ; with special contributions by Evgenia Arbugaeva and Mariele Neudecker.
Date: 2016- Digital Images
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Scadoxus multiflorus Raf. Amaryllidaceae. Blood Flower, Poison root, Fireball Lily. Distribution: Sub-Saharan Africa. The genus name is a concatenation of the Greek words, Sciadion meaning a parasol or umbel, and doxa meaning 'glorious'
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
Albums of photographs
Date: 1902-1905Reference: MSS.2255-2261Part of: Dutton, Joseph Everett (1877-1905), and Todd, John Lancelot (1876-1949), tropical medicine specialists- Pictures
African women posing naked. Halftone, 1898, after A. Vignola, 1897.
Date: [approximately 1898]Reference: 538336iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
The Hosken report : genital and sexual mutilation of females / Fran P. Hosken.
Hosken, Fran P., 1919-2006.Date: [1982]- Pictures
Malaria and campaigns against it: postage stamps. Colour engravings, 1961-1962.
Date: 1961-1962Reference: 583639i- Ephemera
Postage stamps ephemera. Box 10.
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HIV/ AIDS, illness, and African well-being / edited by Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton.
Date: 2007- Digital Images
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Albizia julibrissin Durazz. Fabaceae. Persian silk tree. Called 'shabkhosb' in Persian, meaning 'sleeping tree' as the pinnate leaves close up at night. Tropical tree. Named for Filippo degli Albizzi, an Italian naturalist, who brought seeds from Constantinople to Florence in 1749, and introduced it to European horticulture. The specific epithet comes from the Persian 'gul-i abrisham' which means 'silk flower'. Distribution: South Africa to Ethiopia, Senegal, Madagascar, Asia. Bark is poisonous and emetic and antihelminthic. Various preparations are widely used for numerous conditions and the oxitocic albitocin is abortifacient. However, studies on the seeds and bark of other Albizia species in Africa, demonstrate it is highly toxic, half a kilogram of seeds given to a quarter ton bull, killed it in two hours (Neuwinger, 1996). A useful tree for controlling soil erosion, producing shade in coffee plantations, and as a decorative shade tree in gardens. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Albizia julibrissin Durazz. Fabaceae. Persian silk tree. Called 'shabkhosb' in Persian, meaning 'sleeping tree' as the pinnate leaves close up at night. Tropical tree. Named for Filippo degli Albizzi, an Italian naturalist, who brought seeds from Constantinople to Florence in 1749, and introduced it to European horticulture. The specific epithet comes from the Persian 'gul-i abrisham' which means 'silk flower'. Distribution: South Africa to Ethiopia, Senegal, Madagascar, Asia. Bark is poisonous and emetic and antihelminthic. Various preparations are widely used for numerous conditions and the oxitocic albitocin is abortifacient. However, studies on the seeds and bark of other Albizia species in Africa, demonstrate it is highly toxic, half a kilogram of seeds given to a quarter ton bull, killed it in two hours (Neuwinger, 1996). A useful tree for controlling soil erosion, producing shade in coffee plantations, and as a decorative shade tree in gardens. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.95 AIDS #4
Date: 2002-2007Reference: EPH751:95Part of: Gwen Prout Stamp Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.108 Obstetrics and Gynaecology #2
Date: 1930-2014Reference: EPH751:108Part of: Gwen Prout Stamp Collection- Books
Death warmed over : funeral food, rituals, and customs from around the world / Lisa Rogak.
Rogak, Lisa, 1962-Date: [2004]