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Medication

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Images about Medication

35 images from works
  • Intravenous drip bag
  • Action of SSRIs and NRIs
  • Microparticle drug delivery
  • Blister pack of chloroquine antimalarial tablets. Chloroquine is used to prevent and treat the infectious disease malaria. Malaria is caused by parasites (Plasmodium species) which enter the blood when inefcted mosquitoes feed. Side effects of chloroquine include vomitting, nausea and headache. Retinopathy (damage to the retina) is a rare eye condition associated with long term use over many years. Drug resistance against antimalarials is increasing.
  • Salbutamol crystals
  • Action of SSRIs and NRIs
  • Nanoparticles for drug delivery
  • Injecting a black sheep with medication
  • Ampoules of Diazepam for injection. Diazepam is a sedative and anti-anxiety agent. It is the generic name for Valium .
  • Nanoparticles for drug delivery

Works from the collections

35 works

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Vomiting and sickness, artwork

    Mary Rouncefield
    • Digital Images
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    Advert, scarlet fever treatment, Burroughs Wellcome, 1929

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Advertisement for insulin, Burroughs Wellcome, 1930

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Microparticle drug delivery

    Annie Cavanagh
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    • Online

    Nepal; Sherpa porters in the Khumbu, 1986. Well-dressed Sherpa porters prepare for a trekking expedition organised for a party of western vacationists. They will guide, bring up the rear, cook and strike camp. Such expeditions pay cash wages far in excess of anything Sherpas could hope to earn elsewhere and such income is invested in loans, cattle, land, tradeable articles and jewellery. Until the influx of mountaineering expeditions following Hillary's Everest climb (1953), western medicine was unknown in the Khumbu. Distribution of mainly analgesic and antibiotic drugs has led to misuse.

    Carole Reeves

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Drugs
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Drug delivery
Drug treatment
Spheres
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Balls
Treatment
Blocking
Anti-depressant

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