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Upas

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  • Sarawak: a Kenyah worker collecting the poison from an upas tree trunk. Photograph.
  • People reaching for alcoholic drink falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas-tree; skeletons litter the ground. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
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    Dissertation sur les effets d'un poison de Java, appelé Upas tieuté, et sur la noix vomique, la fève de St.-Ignace, le Strychnos potatorum, et la pomme de Vontac, qui sont du même genre de plantes que l'Upas tieuté ... / par Alire Raffeneau-Delile.

    Raffeneau-Delile, Alire, 1778-1850. | Date: 1809
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    People drinking in a gin palace; people consuming alcoholic drinks falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas-tree. Line block (?) after G. Cruikshank, 1842.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 26293i
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    Observations on the poison of the Upas Antiar / by Professor Albert Kölliker.

    Kölliker, Albrecht, 1817-1905. | Date: [1857]
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    People reaching for alcoholic drink falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas-tree; skeletons litter the ground. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: 1842] | Reference: 26469i
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    People of Borneo. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1873, after F. Regamey after a photograph by August Sachtler.

    Sachtler, August (Photographer), active 1873. | Date: 4 January 1873 | Reference: 44142i
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