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Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): flowering and fruiting plants. Colour process print, c. 1924.

Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): white flowers, seed capsule and seeds. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.

A poppy capsule oozing drops of crude opium and tools for its extraction. Lithograph, ca. 1850.

A skeletal hand offering opium poppies to a living hand. Colour lithograph after S. Smirnov, 1987.

An opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): seed capsule. Watercolour.

Aesculapius and other ancients are presented with exotic materia medica from the far east, which are turned into medicines in a pharmaceutical elaboratory. Oil painting by Johannes Prey, 1791.

The implements used by Mr. Young in his experiments to collect opium in Scotland. Engraving by A. W. Warren, c. 1819, after W. Newton.

Iodatol : brand of iodised oil B.P. : the ideal contrast medium for x-ray diagnosis.

British opium. : The Society have for some years offered premiums to encourage the cultivation of the white poppy in this country, ...

English opium. : The premium of thirty guineas was this Session presented to Messrs. Cowley and Staines, surgeons, of Winslow, Bucks, for cultivating four acres of the white poppy ...

Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.): flowering stems with separate whole and sectioned fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.

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Iodatol : brand of iodised oil B.P. : the ideal contrast medium for x-ray diagnosis.

Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): white flowers, seed capsule and seeds. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.

British opium. : The Society have for some years offered premiums to encourage the cultivation of the white poppy in this country, ...

English opium. : The premium of thirty guineas was this Session presented to Messrs. Cowley and Staines, surgeons, of Winslow, Bucks, for cultivating four acres of the white poppy ...

Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.): flowering stems with separate whole and sectioned fruit. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.