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Drugs

Images

  • A message in German that drug problems concern everyone; one of a series of posters from a 'Stop AIDS' campaign by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz in collaboration with the Office of Federal Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Poppy seed (Papaver somniferum)
  • A syringe forming the 'i' of AIDS with the message: "AIDS. Don't trust other people's fixes" representing an advertisement by the AIDS-Koordination NRW. Colour lithograph by Papen, Hansen.
  • A country pedlar selling medicines from a basket. Etching by T. Kitchin after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A market selling drugs and materia medica. Etching by J. Phillips, 18--.
  • Baldwin's Bilious and Liver Pills : cures sickness, dizziness, shoulder pains, yellowness of the eyes, skin, brown or yellow coated tongue, bile, jaundice, constipation, piles, all liver troubles.
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • Three Turkish soldiers gathered round a fire in the dark, smoking pipes. Lithograph by T. Allom, ca. 1839.
  • A man holding a hypodermic syringe over a tub of diluted bleach; diagrams showing the use of bleach to clean hypodermic needles, with telephone details; advertising hygienic practices when using syringes. by , a support group for those with AIDS. Colour lithograph by Photo Co-op, Glover/Hughes and Big-Active Ltd. for Mainliners, 1990/1995.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    'Drug Misuse in Britain: National Audit of Drug Misuse Statistics'

    | Date: 1990-1996 | Reference: SA/DRS/A/2/6
    Part of: DrugScope
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Advanced Medicine Conference

    | Date: 1969 | Reference: SA/DRS/L/19
    Part of: DrugScope
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Central Independent Television

    | Date: c.1985 | Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/69b
    Part of: DrugScope
    • Archives and manuscripts

    National Family & Parenting Institute

    | Date: October 2001 | Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/299
    Part of: DrugScope
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Scottish Drugs Forum National Conference

    | Date: 1995 | Reference: SA/DRS/L/272
    Part of: DrugScope
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