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  • Advert, scarlet fever treatment, Burroughs Wellcome, 1929
  • Spheres of medicine to be delivered in capsule form
  • Microparticle drug delivery
  • A travelling drug seller. Etching by J. van der Vliet.
  • The lower half of a woman wearing jeans ripped at the knee sits with legs crossed on a chair against a bare wall; accompanied by the words 'There's a simple way to prevent AIDS'; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as an angel when he has started to heal sick people. Coloured engraving by Johann Gelle after E. van Panderen.
  • A market selling drugs and materia medica. Etching by J. Phillips, 18--.
  • A stethoscope representing an advertisement for safe sex to reduce the risk of dying from AIDS by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.
  • An Asian woman in a telephone box listening to the telephone, four symbols of sound or soundness (telephone, exclamation mark with telephone number, condom and syringe); representing support for HIV positive drug-users. Colour lithograph by Photo Co-op, Glover/Huges and Big-Active Ltd. for Mainliners, 1990/1995.
  • A baker supports pies on his head while holding loaves and doughnuts; with four symbols of support (telephone, human pyramid, teapot, knife and fork); representing support for HIV positive people. Colour lithograph by Photofusion and Big-Active Limited for Mainliners, 1990/1995.
  • A naked witch flies to the sabbath mounted on a goat, while her companions continue to prepare their drugs. Process print after H. Baldung Grien.
  • The HIV virus with the silhouette of a couple, 2 people injecting drugs and a blood transfusion; below further illustrations relating to ways in which AIDS is not transmitted including through insect bites and handshaking; a warning about how AIDS is and is not contracted. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A stippled image of two men kissing representing an advertisement for safe sex and drug use by the AIDS Action Council of the ACT with the assistance of ACT Health. Lithograph.
  • Advertisement, insulin made by Burroughs Wellcome, 1929
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Pills, artwork
  • A blood red flame bearing a white syringe pointing up towards the word 'AIDS' in blue letters; a drug safety and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Committee on AIDS Hanoi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A syringe with a bottle of liquid and a warning about the dangers of medicinal and recreational drugs and AIDS; an advertisement by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.
  • An apothecary sells tablets to the King and Queen of the Netherlands the 'socialist epidemic' ostensibly sweeping through Europe. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1890.
  • Papaver somniferum seed
  • From"Man with the twisted lip"
  • An apothecary publically preparing the drug theriac, under the supervision of a physician. Woodcut.
  • A group of young Nigerians gather smiling on the roadside: drug prevention in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Action Health Incorporated, ca. 1998.
  • A woman extravagantly equipped to deal with the cholera epidemic of 1832; representing the abundance of dubious advice on how to combat cholera. Etching, c. 1832.
  • A variety of Native Indian accessories and musical instruments with a warning to get children hooked on cultural pastimes rather than let them get involved in teen pregnancy, drugs and alcohol that can lead to AIDS or other sexually transmitted diseases; advertisement by the Seattle Indian Health Board. Colour lithograph by Stewart Tilger and Christine P. Salvador.
  • Papaver somniferum L. Papaveraceae Opium Poppy Distribution: Asia minor, but has been dated to 5000BC in Spanish caves. Now grows almost everywhere. The oldest medicine in continuous use, described in the Ebers' papyrus (1550 BC), called Meconium, Laudanum, Paregoric and syrup of poppies. Culpeper (1650) on Meconium '...the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick' and 'I am of the opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce of poppies growing in hotter countries, for such Opium as Authors talk of comes from Utopia.[he means an imaginary land, I suspect]’]. He cautions 'Syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness...' and warns in particular about giving syrup of poppies to children to get them to sleep. The alkaloids in the sap include: Morphine 12% - affects ?-opioid receptors in the brain and causes happiness, sleepiness, pain relief, suppresses cough and causes constipation. Codeine 3% – mild opiate actions – converted to morphine in the body. Papaverine, relaxes smooth muscle spasm in arteries of heart and brain, and also for intestinal spasm, migraine and erectile dysfunction. Not analgesic. Thebaine mildly analgesic, stimulatory, is made into oxycodone and oxymorphone which are analgesics, and naloxone for treatment of opiate overdose – ?-opioid receptor competitive antagonist – it displaces morphine from ?-opioid receptors, and constipation caused by opiates. Protopine – analgesic, antihistamine so relieves pain of inflammation. Noscapine – anti-tussive (anti-cough). In 2006 the world production of opium was 6,610 metric tons, in 1906 it was over 30,000 tons when 25% of Chinese males were regular users. The Opium wars of the end of the 19th century were caused by Britain selling huge quantities of Opium to China to restore the balance of payments deficit. Laudanum: 10mg of morphine (as opium) per ml. Paregoric: camphorated opium tincture. 0.4mg morphine per ml. Gee’s Linctus: up to 60 mg in a bottle. J Collis Browne’s chlorodyne: cannabis, morphine, alcohol etc. Kaolin and Morph. - up to 60 mg in a bottle. Dover’s Powders – contained Ipecacuana and morphine. Heroin is made from morphine, but converted back into morphine in the body (Oakeley, 2012). One gram of poppy seeds contains 0.250mgm of morphine, and while one poppy seed bagel will make a urine test positive for morphine for a week, one would need 30-40 bagels to have any discernible effect. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Morphine crystals
  • Advert, treatment for pernicious anaemia, 1930
  • The head of a man against a backdrop of drug-related illustrations with a message that safe use of cocaine does not transmit AIDS; an advertisement by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Peder Iblher.