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Drugs - Overdose

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  • Captain Ducie approaches the dead body of M. Platzoff. Process print after R. Taylor after M. L. Gow.
  • A boy complaining to a pharmacist about medicine dispensed for his father: his mother had misunderstood the dosage instructions. Pen and wash drawing by F. Gillett.
  • An apothecary gives a dangerous medicine to a man harbouring murderous thoughts about his mother-in-law. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • A boy complaining to a pharmacist about medicine dispensed for his father: his mother had misunderstood the dosage instructions. Pen and wash drawing by F. Gillett.
  • A yellow pill next to a jar bearing the label 'Partners Recommended dosage - one only' with a male and female figure; a warning about the dangers of drugs and AIDS from a concept by Dahlia Phillips with assistance from Unicef and Life of Barbados. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
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    Captain Ducie approaches the dead body of M. Platzoff. Process print after R. Taylor after M. L. Gow.

    Gow, Mary Louisa, 1851-1929. | Date: [1891] | Reference: 38241i
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    A yellow pill next to a jar bearing the label 'Partners Recommended dosage - one only' with a male and female figure; a warning about the dangers of drugs and AIDS from a concept by Dahlia Phillips with assistance from Unicef and Life of Barbados. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999?] | Reference: 679135i
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    An apothecary gives a dangerous medicine to a man harbouring murderous thoughts about his mother-in-law. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.

    | Reference: 17206i
    • Books

    Bad trips, freakouts, overdoses = Réactions anormales à la drogue / Minister of National Health and Welfare.

    Canada. Department of National Health and Welfare | Date: 1975
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    Too many pills : how too much medicine is endangering our health and what we can do about it / James Le Fanu.

    Le Fanu, James | Date: 2018
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