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Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous

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Poisons
Hazardous Substances

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  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • A farmer kills mice by piping a canister of of Lepit poison gas into an underground passage; advertising Lepit gas appliances. Colour lithograph by Lünge (?), ca. 192-.
  • Twenty four maladies and their remedies. Coloured line block by F. Laguillermie and Rainaud, ca. 1880.
  • A portable device used to counteract poisonous gases, being carried on a man's back. Halftone.
  • Java: human skeletons lying in a valley poisoned by volcanic gases, being watched by travellers. Coloured aquatint.
  • Artificial respiration of a man who has been rescued from drowning, electric shock or carbon monoxide poisoning. Colour lithograph by Jacob Jansma, 194-.

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    Java: human skeletons lying in a valley poisoned by volcanic gases, being watched by travellers. Coloured aquatint.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 726189i
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    Specification of Robert Milburn and Henry Jackson : decomposing noxious vapours.

    Milburn, Robert. | Date: 1876
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    Specification of Owen Bowen and Ambrose Miller : decomposing noxious gases.

    Bowen, Owen. | Date: 1875
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    A farmer kills mice by piping a canister of of Lepit poison gas into an underground passage; advertising Lepit gas appliances. Colour lithograph by Lünge (?), ca. 192-.

    | Date: [between 1920 and 1929?] | Reference: 2002677i
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    A strange and formidable weapon : British responses to World War I poison gas / Marion Girard.

    Girard, Marion. | Date: 2008

Related topics

United Kingdom
Smoke prevention
Gas Poisoning
Chemical Warfare

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