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  • Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : a joint campaign by government and other concerned organisations / prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for the agriculture departments, with the Department of the Environment and the Nature Conservancy Council, as part of the Campaign against the illegal poisoning of wildlife.
  • Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : Red kite, Milvus, milvus / Dept. of the Environment ; photo: C.H. Gomersall.
  • 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.
  • Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : yellow labrador / Dept. of the Environment ; photos: Derek Whitehouse.
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Works from the collections

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    • 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
    • Ephemera

    General notes on first aid to be rendered in cases of poisoning : by Milnes Hey, M.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P... / St John Ambulance Association ; Milnes Hey.

    | Date: [between 1890 and 1900?]
    • Ephemera

    General notes on first aid to be rendered in cases of poisoning : by Milnes Hey by Milnes Hey, M.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P... / St John Ambulance Association ; Milnes Hey.

    | Date: [between 1890 and 1900?]
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    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
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Related topics

First Aid
Poisons
Toxicology
Homicide
Ophthalmology
Forensic Medicine
Arsenic
Antidotes
History, 19th Century
Wounds and Injuries

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