An extract of absinthium and other bitter herbs, containing 60% alcohol. Prolonged ingestion causes nervousness, convulsions, trismus, amblyopia, optic neuritis, and mental deterioration. (Dorland, 27th ed)
    

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An evil man, representing medicine and religion (?), gloats over the death of the freedom of the individual in Switzerland to consume absinthe, represented as a green woman stabbed by a cross. Colour lithograph after A.-H. Gantner, 1910.

An absinthe addict eyeing three glasses on a table; advertisement for film "Absinthe". Colour lithograph, ca. 1913.

Etude expimentale et clinique sur l'absinthisme et l'alcoolisme.

Absinthine Bonnichon, Liqueur pour dames: product label. Colour lithograph.

Étude clinique sur l'absinthisme chronique / par Léon Gautier.

L'absinthe : histoire de la fée verte / Marie-Claude Delahaye.

Absinthe : history in a bottle / Barnaby Conrad III.

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Etude expimentale et clinique sur l'absinthisme et l'alcoolisme.

Absinthine Bonnichon, Liqueur pour dames: product label. Colour lithograph.

Étude clinique sur l'absinthisme chronique / par Léon Gautier.

L'absinthe : histoire de la fée verte / Marie-Claude Delahaye.

Absinthe : history in a bottle / Barnaby Conrad III.