Species of toxic flowering plant in the nightshade family

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Atropa belladonna (Deadly nightshade)

Back ache quickly relieved by Carter's smart weed and belladonna Back Ache Plasters.

Presented by the makers of Carter's Little Liver Pills : back-ache quickly cured by Carter's smart weed and belladonna Back-Ache Plasters.

Evans' Purgoids : a gentle and effective laxative, cathartic and cholagogue.

Oh! My poor back" dran' pa" o'o ought to put on one of Carter's backache plasters" : Carter's Backache Plasters.

Carter's Backache Plasters for every ache or pain : puzzle card.

Anatomy and botany; top left, dissected head and chest; top right, dissected thorax; centre left, forceps; centre right, man with tumours on his head; bottom left, belladona plant. Coloured engraving, 1834-1837.

Diatribe botanico-medica de belladonna sive solano furioso / Auctore Christophoro Conrado Sicelio.

The test drug-proving of the "O.O. & L. Society" : a re-proving of belladonna ; being an experimental study of the pathogenic action of that drug upon the healthy human organism. Conducted under the auspices of the American Homoeopathic, Ophthalmological, Otological and Laryngological Society, with the indorsement and co-operation of the American Institute of Homoeopathy and various state and local societies / arranged and condensed by the general director of the proving Howard P. Bellows.

Études cliniques sur quelques médications nouvelles et en particulier sur l'emploi et les indications de la belladone dans le traitement de la passion iliaque / par Jules Davasse.

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Atropa belladonna

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Presented by the makers of Carter's Little Liver Pills : back-ache quickly cured by Carter's smart weed and belladonna Back-Ache Plasters.

Diatribe botanico-medica de belladonna sive solano furioso / Auctore Christophoro Conrado Sicelio.

Études cliniques sur quelques médications nouvelles et en particulier sur l'emploi et les indications de la belladone dans le traitement de la passion iliaque / par Jules Davasse.

Evans' Purgoids : a gentle and effective laxative, cathartic and cholagogue.

Atropa belladonna

Images from the collections

Images about Atropa belladonna

Works from the collections

Presented by the makers of Carter's Little Liver Pills : back-ache quickly cured by Carter's smart weed and belladonna Back-Ache Plasters.

Diatribe botanico-medica de belladonna sive solano furioso / Auctore Christophoro Conrado Sicelio.

Études cliniques sur quelques médications nouvelles et en particulier sur l'emploi et les indications de la belladone dans le traitement de la passion iliaque / par Jules Davasse.

Evans' Purgoids : a gentle and effective laxative, cathartic and cholagogue.

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