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Understanding new, resurgent, and resistant diseases : how man and globalization create and spread illness / Kurt Link.
Link, Kurt, 1937-Date: 2007- Archives and manuscripts
Distribution of Biomphalaria glabrata
Date: c.1974Reference: WTI/RFS/B/61Part of: Sturrock, Robert F (b.1937)- Pictures
A woman with short hair wearing a uniform: bust. Charcoal drawing by F. Coppard, 1968.
Coppard, Fay, active approximately 1968.Date: 23.3.68 [23 March 1968]Reference: 2921468iPart of: Adamson Collection- Film
Science against schistosomiasis.
Date: 1967- Archives and manuscripts
Parasitology
Date: c.1980Reference: WF/M/I/SL/33Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Sophie's shell / Jo Rooks.
Rooks, JoDate: [2019]- Archives and manuscripts
Ecological notes on Biomphalaria glabrata
Date: c.1974Reference: WTI/RFS/B/56Part of: Sturrock, Robert F (b.1937)- Books
Comfortably numb : how psychiatry is medicating a nation / Charles Barber.
Barber, Charles, 1962-Date: [2008], ©2008- Pictures
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A boy blowing bubbles. Engraving by M. Blot, 1792, after F. van Mieris.
Mieris, Frans van, 1635-1681.Date: [1792]Reference: 673814iPart of: Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands de Le Brun- Archives and manuscripts
Reagents from the hedgerow
Date: c1971Reference: SA/HHC/Z/7Part of: Harrison-Howell Blood Transfusion Collection- Archives and manuscripts
DAT S SNA Paper
Date: December 1986-September 1988Reference: PP/MIA/E/4/51/11Part of: Professor Michael Ashburner: archives- Audio
Auditorium : an audio medical magazine for hospital doctors. Vol.14, no.3.
Date: 1987- Archives and manuscripts
Mollusciciding programme results
Date: c.1974Reference: WTI/RFS/B/60Part of: Sturrock, Robert F (b.1937)- Videos
A dozen eggs : time-lapse microscopy of normal development.
Date: 1991- Books
A philosophical inquiry into the cause of animal heat : with incidental observations on several phisiological and chymical questions, connected with the subject / By P. Dugud Leslie, M.D.
Leslie, Patrick Dugud, 1750?-1783.Date: 1778- Archives and manuscripts
Galton, Sir Francis to W F R Weldon
Date: 1894-1906Reference: GALTON/3/3/7/28Part of: Galton Papers- Books
Forgotten people, forgotten diseases : the neglected tropical diseases and their impact on global health and development / Peter J. Hotez.
Hotez, Peter J.Date: [2008], ©2008- Archives and manuscripts
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Receipt book, early 17th century
Date: early-mid 17th centuryReference: MS.8086- Archives and manuscripts
Insects & Crops
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/10/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Farewell to the god of plague : Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China / Miriam Gross.
Gross, Miriam, 1969-Date: [2016]- Archives and manuscripts
Attachment/separation symbol (artwork)
Date: 1976-1977Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/3/1/9Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Books
Land & animal & nonanimal / co-edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin in association with Kirsten Einfeldt & Daniela Wolf.
Date: [2015]- Videos
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Schistosomiasis.
Date: 1990- Digital Images
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Euphorbia milii Des Moul. Euphorbiaceae. Crown of Thorns - so called because of its very spiny stems. Distribution: Madagascar. The latex contains a copper-containing amine oxidase, a lectin, lipase, peroxidase, and a diamine oxidase. In vitro the latex is synergistic with ketoconazole against Candida albicans (thrush). All Euphorbia have a toxic white latex, and in Europe this has been used as a folk remedy to treat warts. It can cause skin allergies and the smoke from burning them is toxic. the genus named for Euphorbus (fl. circa 10 BC – 20 AD), the Greek physician to the Berber King Juba II (c. 50 BC – 23 AD) of Numidia, Euphorbia milii is one of the tropical spurges, with fierce, cactus-like spines, grown as a house plant. The sap of spurges is used in folk medicine for treating warts (not very effective), and, historically, as a purgative - the word spurge being derived from the French word for purgation. The sap (probably dried) was administered inside a fig because it is so corrosive that it would otherwise burn the mouth and oesophagus – a technique used today, rather more subtly, with ‘enteric coated’ medications. The sap contains a potential anti-leukaemic chemical, lasiodoplin, and is also used in drainage ditches to kill the snails which carry the parasitic trematode which causes fasciolaris. It does not kill the fish. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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Twelve univalve molluscs. Coloured etching by M. Harris.
Harris, Moses, 1730-approximately 1788.Date: 17 February 1787Reference: 40480i