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White hellebore (Veratrum album): flowering stem, bulb and leaf. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.

A plant (Veratrum nigrum): flowering stems and leaf. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1806, after S. Edwards.

Physiologisch-therapeutische Untersuchungen uber das Veratrin / von Friedrich August Forcke.

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A plant (Veratrum nigrum): flowering stems and leaf. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1806, after S. Edwards.

White hellebore (Veratrum album): flowering stem, bulb and leaf. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.

Physiologisch-therapeutische Untersuchungen uber das Veratrin / von Friedrich August Forcke.