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Images about Poisoning

36 images from works
  • MS Japanese 25
  • 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.
  • MS Japanese 25
  • 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.
  • MS Japanese 25
  • A vicar prays for a dying usurer while his wife receives medical advice. Mezzotint by B. Clowes after W. Dawes, 1768.
  • MS Japanese 25
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Works from the collections

321 works

    • Books

    Processo agli untori : Milano 1630, cronaca e atti giudiziari in edizione integrale / a cura di Giuseppe Farinelli e Ermanno Paccagnini.

    | Date: 1988
    • Ephemera

    Please not to destroy or mislay this. : In apparent death / Royal National Life-Boat Institution.

    | Date: [between 1835 and 1869?]
    • Ephemera

    First aid in cases of poisoning : London County Council. Evening institutes. / R. Blair.

    | Date: 1914
    • Books
    • Online

    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.

    Marche, Abel. | Date: 1876
    • Books
    • Online

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

    Headland, Frederick William | Date: 1856
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Related topics

Poisons
Toxicology
Homicide
First Aid
Ophthalmology
Forensic Medicine
Antidotes
Arsenic
Poisoners
History, 19th Century

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