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Annual report of the medical division / British Heart Foundation.

Leaflet promoting a healthy, balanced diet including 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day, regular drinks of water and avoiding starchy foods.The front shows a young, oriental woman holding a plastic tray containing 5 large apples surrounded by oranges and apples priced up in (?) Chinese.

Healthy eating ephemera. Box 6.

Healthy eating / Department of Health.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes leaflets about Macmillan Cancer Relief's specialised cancer nurses, fund raising initiatives (recycling envelopes for inkjet cartridges, 2011, clothing collections, 2012), support line (in connection with Boots WebMD, 2013), Marie Curie Cancer Care's great daffodil appeal 2013.

General Collections Ephemera Collection

Cancer charities ephemera. Box 5.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes leaflets about HEART (Heart Exploration and Research in Therapy), the Chelation Centre Ltd. (Wimpole Street, London - for treatment of cardiovascular disorders), Superdrug's instore Healthcheck services (for heart, blood pressure etc.), Marubeni-Iida Co. Ltd.'s electrocardiograph (1971), Health Education Authority's 'Look after your heart' campaign, Flora Project for Heart Disease Prevention (food choices), Heart Uk (2012), Johnson & Johnson's Zocor Heart-Pro (simvastin) tablets to lower cholesterol and arterial plaque levels, Kwai concentrated garlic tablets, Lloyds Pharmacy, Seven Seas fish oil products, Merck, Sharp & Dohme's Guide to cholesterol and heart disease (1991), British Egg Information Service (Cholesterol: the facts. 1992?), Vitabiotics' Cardioace omega-3 fish oil with vitamins, garlic and minerals (to aid the heart and circulation, 2000), Tesco (Get smart with your heart, Fat and cholesterol, 2002), leaflets asking for unwanted clothing and unwanted goods to raise money for the Children's Heart Surgery Fund (2008, 2009), Heartbeat UK and the British Heart Foundation (2010), Coventry and Warwickshire Cardiac Network (2011? : patient choice of hospitals), 'How healthy is your heart?' (Heart UK), 'Do your arteries look this healthy?' (Circulation Foundation : 2011), 'Looking after your heart' (Sainsbury's 2006), 'Healthy heart support' (Boots : 2013), 'Take control of your cholesterol and help reduce the risk of heart disease' (Benecol : 2010), 'Want to protect yor heart?' (Flora Pro-activ : 2010), 'Cholesterol intelligence : do you love cheese?' (miniCol : 2010), free hear age check (Sainsburys : 2014), vascular screenings (Life Line Screening : 2014?), Chicago Heart Association ('our valentine fund raising stickers, 1936), Children's Heart Federation (2014?), Cardiovascular disease (NHS National institute for Health Research : 2014).

Heart disease ephemera. Box 2.

Heart information series

Recovery from a stroke : describes the problems which may occur after a stroke with constructive ideas of how the family and friends can help the patient achieve greater independence / British Heart Foundation.

Smoking and your heart / British Heart Foundation.

20 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations ; 18 cm

Heart Foundation Day : Sept 28th 1973 / [Ascot Racecourse].

1 broadside : colour illustrations ; 59 x 84 cm

Your blood contains / Designed by David Blann ; illustrated by Ivana T. Cooke.

Subject coverage includes: slimming, corns, callouses, bunions, chiropody, foot odour prevention,back supports, posture, lifting, arthritis, frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis), rheumatism at work, tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis), Wild's Gout & Rheumatism Mixture (Thomas Wild, Manchester, 1870?), muscular dystrophy, asthma, eczema, asbestos exposure, lung diseases, bone marrow transplantation, blood donation, heart disease and its prevention (low fat diets, taking exercise, stopping smoking, losing excess weight, reducing alcohol drinking), thalassaemia, sickle cell anaemia.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+36.

Leaflet making the case against the use of animals in medical research with specific reference to the British Heart Foundation. The front shows a labrador dog being operated on with the title in green reversed out of a dark blue background below.

Veterinary medical ephemera : Animal welfare. Box 6

1 folded sheet (4 p.) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.

Do you have a heart for animals? : the British Heart Foundation don't... / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes items about nicotine replacement therapy, smoking cessation and weight increase, passive smoking, pregnancy, ASH ('Free lung cancer with every packet), Honeyrose herbal cigarettes (as a tobacco substitute), Nicorette, Nicotinell, NiQuitin patches and chewing gum, Quit 7, a Boots 'Stop smoking support pack' with other ephemera relating to the smoking ban that came into force in England on July 1 2007, Camden Stop Smoking Service (2007), NHS Smoking Helpline (2004), a beermat advertising No Smoking Day (2006), advice and tips on how to give up, a 7 day guest membership pass to Fitness first gyms for people who stop smoking from 12 March 2008 (incorporating the graphics from the 2008 No Smoking Day), Saracen's hypnotherapy help to stop smoking, Boots' 12 week stop smoking programme, Medi Centre's stop smoking programme (2007), 'Stop smoking for Ramadan' (Pfizer Ltd., May 2010), No Smoking.co.uk (sticker, 2010), Ashtree (an ash tray disguised as a shrub for placing outside buildings for smokers smoking outside offices etc., 2010), No Smoking Day 2011, www.click2quit.com (2006), Nicorette Invisipatch 1 week challenge (December 2010), a campaign (not used) by Brent NHS featuring Colin Baker and exploting his previous acting role as Doctor Who (ca.2004), GlaxoSmithKline's therapeutic nicotine, Warwickshire Stop Smoking Service, Smokefree Wandsworth (2012), pregnancy and smoking (Lewisham Primary Care Trust, 2013?), No Smoking Day (2013 / British Heart Foundation), Smokefree Camden (2012), therapeutic nicotine (GlaxoSmithkline : 2010), Nicorette QuickMist Mouthspray (2013), E-Lites electronic cigarettes (2013), No Smoking Day (British Heart Foundation : 2012), 'QUIT : all that's missing is you' Smokefree Islington : Whittington Health : 2012), Kick It Stop Smoking Service (2015), Quit cards (Public Health England / NHS : 2015?), 'I'm proud to be a quitter' (British Heart Foundation : 2013).

Smoking ephemera. Box 5.

Cut down on salt : it's important for you and your family / British Heart Foundation.

Folder containing items of very large ephemera. Includes: sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS prevention in South Africa (Khomanani, Soul City Institute, Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, Medecins Sans Frontiers, City of Cape Town), anti-retroviral treatment for AIDS, AZT, Kaletra, DDi, 3TC, NVP, Efavirenz, HIV testing and counselling, New Scientist wall chart ('Science of AIDS', 1987?), random, anonymous HIV testing on blood samples (Dept. of Health, Sept. 1990), National AIDS Helpline (Health Education Authority), 'A diagnostic blood chart' (advertising The Palisade Manufacturing Company of New York's arseniated Hemaboloids, represented in the UK by Andrus & Andrus), blood circulation, heart disease prevention (British Heart Foundation), Gay Pride Paris 1992, a phrenological chart and 'Coombe's synopsis of phrenology' chart (12th ed.).

Oversize ephemera (A1). Box ++78.

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 20.3 x 12.7 cm

Heart transplant patients and heart disease patients on the British Heart Foundation's Silver Jubilee bicycle ride from London to Brighton, 15 June 1986. Photograph by Epoque, 1986.

Beating heart disease : celebrating 50 years of research and discovery / British Heart Foundation.

Report and accounts / British Heart Foundation.

The annual review / British Heart Foundation.

Subject coverage includes: how to revive apparently drowned and asphyxicated people (French government 1811, Royal Humane Society, 1840s and an invitation to one of their dinners : 1796), rescue and resuscitation apparatus for mines (1911), first aid in St. Paul's Cathedral Ambulance Station (1910), Royal Life Saving Society certificates (1916, 1929, 1931), alarm for when people are mistakenly buried while still alive (Frédéric Jaquand, Paris 1867), cardiopulmonary resuscitation (British Heart Foundation, Laerdal Medical), accident prevention, firework safety, fire prevention and fire extinguishers, road safety, industrial safety, Public Health Alliance, Quality Health (health surveys), Royal Sanitary Institute (health congress information and stationery, 1937-1952, health visitors certificate, 1944), illegal disposal of waste (Hastings, 1851), Health of the Nation, Faculty of Public Health Medicine (1995?), Institute of New Zealand Health Inspectors and Australian Institute of Health Surveyors conference (1987), food hygiene (Health Education Authority 1991), avoiding poisoning by not eating mushrooms (Mantova 1794), washing hands after using the toilet (1993), sewerage in Bridlington (1890), water supply and sanitation (Great Yarmouth 1882, 1887, 1889) and "unwholesome fish" (Great Yarmouth 1889).

Oversize ephemera. EPH+26.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes 4 victorian valentines cards (Used in the Wellcome Collection 'Heart' exhibition), 2 1965 Christmas seals / stamps sold to raise funds for the Chest and Heart Association, photograph of a British heart pacemaker (February 1964), 'How to help in case of... heart attack' (Michigan Heart Association : 1950s?), leaflets about avoiding heart disease from Heart Line Association, Take Heart, Chest, Heart and Stroke Association, the Health of the Nation, American Heart Association, Decker Weiss (Ask the Doctor series), British Heart Foundation (including volunteers, 2012), leaflets advertising fish and fish oils for a healthy heart, British Cardiac Society's AGM, second European Congress of Cardiology and 4 CIBA Collection of medical illustrations (the heart) by Frank Netter.

Heart disease ephemera. Box 1.

80 pages : colour illustrations, portraits ; 17 cm

Life-saving science : recent discoveries from BFH research / British Heart Foundation.

Heart research series

Recovery from a stroke : describes the problems which may occur after a stroke with constructive ideas of how the family and friends can help the patient achieve greater indepenedence / British Heart Foundation.

xvi, 282 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm

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Annual report of the medical division / British Heart Foundation.

Healthy eating / Department of Health.

Cancer charities ephemera. Box 5.

Heart disease ephemera. Box 2.

Recovery from a stroke : describes the problems which may occur after a stroke with constructive ideas of how the family and friends can help the patient achieve greater independence / British Heart Foundation.

Smoking and your heart / British Heart Foundation.

Heart Foundation Day : Sept 28th 1973 / [Ascot Racecourse].

Your blood contains / Designed by David Blann ; illustrated by Ivana T. Cooke.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+36.

Do you have a heart for animals? : the British Heart Foundation don't... / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Smoking ephemera. Box 5.

Cut down on salt : it's important for you and your family / British Heart Foundation.

Oversize ephemera (A1). Box ++78.

Heart transplant patients and heart disease patients on the British Heart Foundation's Silver Jubilee bicycle ride from London to Brighton, 15 June 1986. Photograph by Epoque, 1986.

Beating heart disease : celebrating 50 years of research and discovery / British Heart Foundation.

Report and accounts / British Heart Foundation.

The annual review / British Heart Foundation.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+26.

Heart disease ephemera. Box 1.

Life-saving science : recent discoveries from BFH research / British Heart Foundation.

Recovery from a stroke : describes the problems which may occur after a stroke with constructive ideas of how the family and friends can help the patient achieve greater indepenedence / British Heart Foundation.

Fighting heart disease : the history of the British Heart Foundation 1961-1988 / David N. Matthews.

Reducing the risk of a heart attack : a guide for the general public / British Heart Foundation.

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Annual report of the medical division / British Heart Foundation.

Healthy eating / Department of Health.

Cancer charities ephemera. Box 5.

Heart disease ephemera. Box 2.

Recovery from a stroke : describes the problems which may occur after a stroke with constructive ideas of how the family and friends can help the patient achieve greater independence / British Heart Foundation.

Smoking and your heart / British Heart Foundation.

Heart Foundation Day : Sept 28th 1973 / [Ascot Racecourse].

Your blood contains / Designed by David Blann ; illustrated by Ivana T. Cooke.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+36.

Do you have a heart for animals? : the British Heart Foundation don't... / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Smoking ephemera. Box 5.

Cut down on salt : it's important for you and your family / British Heart Foundation.

Oversize ephemera (A1). Box ++78.

Heart transplant patients and heart disease patients on the British Heart Foundation's Silver Jubilee bicycle ride from London to Brighton, 15 June 1986. Photograph by Epoque, 1986.

Beating heart disease : celebrating 50 years of research and discovery / British Heart Foundation.

Report and accounts / British Heart Foundation.

The annual review / British Heart Foundation.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+26.

Heart disease ephemera. Box 1.

Life-saving science : recent discoveries from BFH research / British Heart Foundation.

Recovery from a stroke : describes the problems which may occur after a stroke with constructive ideas of how the family and friends can help the patient achieve greater indepenedence / British Heart Foundation.

Fighting heart disease : the history of the British Heart Foundation 1961-1988 / David N. Matthews.

Reducing the risk of a heart attack : a guide for the general public / British Heart Foundation.

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