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Ministry of Education
Date: March 1983Reference: SA/DRS/J/1/1Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Procuraduria General de la Republica
Date: 1987Reference: SA/DRS/J/6/4Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Office of the President of the Republic
Date: September 1988Reference: SA/DRS/J/5/2Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Morumbi Social Institue
Date: 1972Reference: SA/DRS/J/3/2Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
University of Panama
Date: 1973Reference: SA/DRS/J/7/1Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Latin American Bureau
Date: 1980Reference: SA/DRS/J/2/1Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Puerto Rico Narcotic Addiction Control Commission
Date: 1973Reference: SA/DRS/J/9/1Part of: DrugScope- Books
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The hill-caves of Yucatan : a search for evidence of man's antiquity in the caverns of Central America : being an account of the Corwith expedition of the Department of Archaeology and Palaeontology of the University of Pennsylvania / by Henry C. Mercer.
Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930.Date: 1896- Archives and manuscripts
Report of the Central American Working Party San Jose, Costa Rica
Date: 13-21 September 1973Reference: SA/ICM/M/5/2Part of: International Confederation of Midwives- Archives and manuscripts
South America trade marks: correspondence
Date: 1942Reference: WF/L/06/136Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
South America trade marks: correspondence
Date: 1942Reference: WF/L/06/133Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
The AIDS pandemic in Latin America / Shawn Smallman.
Smallman, Shawn C.Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
Who's who in Latin America : a biographical dictionary of notable living men and women of Latin America / edited by Ronald Hilton.
Date: 1945-1951 [v. 1, 1946]- Archives and manuscripts
South America trade marks: correspondence
Date: 1942-1944Reference: WF/L/06/135Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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Rabies: a cat and a dog, at risk of bringing rabies into the British Isles from Spain or Latin America. Colour lithograph, 1976.
Date: 1976Reference: 780228i- Digital Images
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The Thorn Spider (Gasteracantha cancriformis) is a neotropical spider of the Micrathena schreibersi species of orb weavers (Araneidae). The spider has a wide distribution throughout Central and South America. Females are large and brightly colored, and have a triangular abdomen with black margins and 10 prominent spines. Males are smaller and less conspicuous than females and are less frequently encountered.
Macroscopic Solutions- Digital Images
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The Thorn Spider (Gasteracantha cancriformis) is a neotropical spider of the Micrathena schreibersi species of orb weavers (Araneidae). The spider has a wide distribution throughout Central and South America. Females are large and brightly colored, and have a triangular abdomen with black margins and 10 prominent spines. Males are smaller and less conspicuous than females and are less frequently encountered.
Macroscopic Solutions- Books
Pregnancy and power : a short history of reproductive politics in America / Rickie Solinger.
Solinger, Rickie, 1947-Date: [2005], ©2005- Digital Images
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Capsicum annuum 'Masquerade' Distribution: Central and South America. This ‘domesticated species’ originated from Mexico (although the centre of Capsicum evolution was much earlier and from Bolivia) and includes the bland salad peppers and the hot chilli peppers, of which capsaicin (sometimes called capsicain), from the lining of the inside of the chilli, is the main active ingredient. Chilli comes from the Aztec language of the Nahuatl people. It was reputedly introduced to Europe by Columbus in the mid-15th century, but was cultivated in Mexico since 4,000 BCE and used in cooking since 7,200 BCE. After its introduction to Europe, its cultivation very rapidly became world-wide. It appears first as a description (Bock, 1539) with the name teutschem Pfeffer. The first illustration, as Siliquastrum, appears in Historia Stirpes commentarii insignis (Fuchs, 1542). Fuchs did not realise it came from the Americas, as he identified it as a plant described by Pliny, Dioscorides and Avicenna and gave their uses of it. It appear in Dodoen's Cruydeboeck (1551) and Lyte's translation (1557) with the note that it is 'hot and drie in the third degree.' He recommended it for dressing meat, and noted that it 'warmeth the stomach' and was good for a sore throat, scrofula, and topically got rid of spots. Fuch's had reported these properties as being described by Avicenna, but what that plant was is unknown. Lindley (1838) wrote: 'It is employed in medicine, in combination with Cinchona in intermittent and lethargic affections, and also in atonic gout, dyspepsia accompanied by flatulence, tympanitis, paralysis etc. Its most valuable application appears however to be in cynanche maligna [=severe sore throat, with impending suffocation] and scarlatina maligna [=severe scarlet fever], used either as a gargle or administered internally.' However, its principal use medically has been in pain relief, applied locally for pain from muscle injury to post herpetic neuralgia. Capsaicin acts on the pain and heat sensing neurones to make them trigger the sensation of pain at body temperature. Repeated exposure to capsaicin depletes the neurotransmitter substance P that is used to perceive pain, so the relevant nerves no longer transmit the sensation of pain/heat from any cause. It is a banned substance in the equestrian events at the Olympics because of its ability to stop perception of pain. Capsaicin has been shown, experimentally, to kill cancer cells by attacking their mitochondria. Particular interest has concentrated on its ability to reduce the size of tumours of the pancreas and prostate. Various cultivars are used in cooking, and the strength (i.e. how hot they are) is measured in Scoville units. A standard chilli pepper used in England would be around 5,000 Scovilles, the hottest peppers are rated over one million Scoville units. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Illustrated memoir of an eventful expedition into Central America, resulting in the discovery of the idolatrous city of Iximaya : in an unexplored region, and the possession of two remarkable Aztec children, Maximo (the boy) and Bartola (the girl), descendants and specimen of the sacerdotal caste (now nearly extinct), of the ancient Aztec founders of the ruined temples of that country / described by John L. Stephens and other travelers ; translated from the Spanish of Pedro Velasquez of San Salvador.
Velasquez, Pedro.Date: 1860- Books
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The English government at work, 1327-1336 / edited by James F. Willard and William A. Morris.
Willard, James F. (James Field), 1876-1935Date: 1940-1950- Books
The end of a global pox : America and the eradication of smallpox in the Cold War era / Bob H. Reinhardt.
Reinhardt, Bob H., 1978-Date: [2015]- Books
Science and art : the red book of 'Einstein meets Margritte' / edited by Diederik Aerts, Ernest Mathijs and Bert Mosselmans.
Date: [1999], ©1999- Books
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A communist odyssey : the life of József Pogány / John Pepper / Thomas Sakmyster.
Sakmyster, Thomas LDate: 2012- Pictures
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The guinea worm and insects of central America. Pencil drawing by Thomas Malie, c. 1730.
Malie, Thomas, approximately 1700-approximately 1789.Date: [1730?]Reference: 11914i