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A sugar cane plant (Saccharum officinarum), its flower and sections of stem, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 28057i- Pictures
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A coffee plant (Coffea arabica), its flower and fruit segments bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 28052i- Pictures
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A tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum), its flowers and seeds, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
Date: [c. 1840]Reference: 28060i- Pictures
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A poor, old and wounded war veteran watched in sympathy by a young Russian family - a Russian war fund poster. Halftone after S. Vinogradoff, 1914.
Vinogradoff, Sergei Arsseniévitch, 1869-Date: 1914Reference: 24068i- Pictures
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A fruiting cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) Photograph.
Reference: 28229i- Pictures
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A husband wearily pampers his pregnant wife. Lithograph by F. Bouchot, 1838.
Bouchot, Frédéric, 1798-Date: 1838Reference: 16463iPart of: Contributions indirectes- Pictures
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The Italian social fabric symbolised by a chain of social types, with all relations of dependence ultimately relating back to the devil. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, 1691.
Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718.Date: 1691Reference: 17932i- Pictures
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A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [between 1730 and 1739?]Reference: 16957i- Pictures
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The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
Henriot, 1857-1933.Date: 1907Reference: 17268i- Digital Images
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Nepal; agriculture and subsistence in the Khumbu, 1986. Sherpa with young yak. The economic emphasis of the Khumbu is on animal husbandry, and the breeding and tending of yaks and cattle was an important occupation when this photograph was taken. Yaks command a good price. On walled, flat terraces, Sherpas cultivate their staple diet of potatoes, barley, buckwheat, and in lower areas, rice. In this picture, taken at altitude 2900 metres, the land sustains the commercial cultivation of medicinal herbs although increases in production are limited by environmental degradation, largely through soil erosion.
Carole Reeves- Pictures
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A mallow plant (Abutilon sp.): flowering and fruiting plant with separate fruit and seed. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16683i- Pictures
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Vaccination in Burkina Faso. Lithograph after L. Koy, ca. 2000.
Koy, L.Date: 2000Reference: 751882i- Pictures
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Protests against the Corrie Amendment to the 1967 Abortion Act in the United Kingdom. Colour process prints, 1979-1980.
Date: [1979-1980]Reference: 664631i- Digital Images
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AIDS prevention advert from Vietnam
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British Association for the Advancement of Science: the president-elect and presidents of departments. Wood engraving, 1883.
Date: [1883]Reference: 47148i- Digital Images
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Salmon sea louse mouth, fish parasite
Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen- 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- Pictures
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Above, Nihonbashi bridge, Tokyo, crowded with traffic and pedestrians; below, Kaiunbashi Kabutorchō (?) House and the First National Bank building. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, ca. 1870.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880.Date: [1870?]Reference: 567277i- Digital Images
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Salmon sea louse, fish parasite
Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen- Pictures
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A dove stands on crossed keys holding in its wings a chart showing the good, bad or indifferent effects of each sign of the zodiac on different human activities. Engraving by P. Miotte, 16--.
Date: [1646]Reference: 46391i- Pictures
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A heavily pregnant woman walking a road littered with risks to her death: reducing risks of child birth in Uganda. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health, ca. 1998.
Date: [1998?]Reference: 811546i- Pictures
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A mouse is sitting in front of a trap with an inviting sign, contemplating the offer. Coloured aquatint.
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Investors optimistically seek the protection of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720, while others are irreversably ruined. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 816028iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A car from which shares are sold in the Netherlands during the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 811628iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
John Law: his rise to eminence and riches in France, and subsequent decline, resulting in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 816080iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.