Toxic effect of a biological or chemical agent

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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.

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.

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

Illustrations of the effects of poisons : by George Leith Roupell ; the plates from original drawings by Andrew Melville M'Whinnie.

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

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.

Case of strychnia-poisoning, and recovery under treatment with calabar bean and chloroform / by John White.

Avis sur les moyens pratiques avec succes pour secourir : 1. les personnes noyés; 2. celles qui ont été suffoqués par des vapeurs méphitiques, telles que celles du charbon, du vin, des mines, &c.; 3. les enfans qui paroissent morts en naissant, & qu'il est facile d'appeler à la vie; 4. les personnes qui ont été mordues par des animaux enragés; 5. celles qui ont été empoisonnés ... / extrait des mémoires de M. Portal, médecin consultant de Monsieur de l'Académie royale des Sciences.

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Poisoning

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

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.

Case of strychnia-poisoning, and recovery under treatment with calabar bean and chloroform / by John White.

Poisoning

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Images referencing Poisoning

Works from the collections

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

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.

Case of strychnia-poisoning, and recovery under treatment with calabar bean and chloroform / by John White.

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