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The Panama Canal: Baron de Reinach, one of the promoters of the canal, is forced to swallow poison. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.

A seedy looking intern. Colour process print by C. Josef, c. 1930.

A man supposed to be dead arising from his coffin and surprising his wife (?). Coloured aquatint, 1805, after a drawing by Henry Wigstead, 1784.

Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by W. Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman.

The Dutch maid (De Nederlandse Maagd), personifying the Netherlands asks an apothecary whether a medicine might not be poisonous; symbolising doubts over a new Dutch tax law; he replies no, a babe-in-arms could take it. Process print after J. Braakensiek, 1890.

A vicar prays for a dying usurer while his wife receives medical advice. Mezzotint by B. Clowes after W. Dawes, 1768.

De l'intoxication par le sulfure de carbone : thèse pour le doctorat en médecine présentée et soutenue le vendredi 7 avril 1876 / par Abel Marche.

On poisoning by the root of aconitum napellus / by F.W. Headland, M.D., B.A., F.L.S.

King Edward I of England, wounded in the arm during a Crusade, has the poison sucked from the wound by Queen Eleanor. Lithograph by J. Linnell, 1845, after J. Severn.

De l'intoxication par le sulfure de carbone : thèse pour le doctorat en médecine présentée et soutenue le 16 novembre 1867 / par Paul Gourdon.

St. John Ambulance Association ephemera. Box 1.

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De l'intoxication par le sulfure de carbone : thèse pour le doctorat en médecine présentée et soutenue le vendredi 7 avril 1876 / par Abel Marche.

On poisoning by the root of aconitum napellus / by F.W. Headland, M.D., B.A., F.L.S.

King Edward I of England, wounded in the arm during a Crusade, has the poison sucked from the wound by Queen Eleanor. Lithograph by J. Linnell, 1845, after J. Severn.

De l'intoxication par le sulfure de carbone : thèse pour le doctorat en médecine présentée et soutenue le 16 novembre 1867 / par Paul Gourdon.

St. John Ambulance Association ephemera. Box 1.