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  • A medicine vendor selling antidotes to snake poison. Etching by G.M. Mitelli.
  • A medicine vendor selling antidotes to snake poison. Etching by G.M. Mitelli.
  • Sarawak: a Kenyah worker collecting the poison from an upas tree trunk. Photograph.
  • Two Shiva devotees known for extracting the poison from a scorpion's bite. Gouache drawing.
  • The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.
  • The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.
  • The death mask of William Palmer, the poisoner. Lithograph after M. Krantz, c. 1860.
  • Edme-Samuel Castaing, the poisoner, and his two victims: Auguste and Hippolite Ballet. Engraving.
  • T.H. Parke sucking the poison from William Stairs' wound, inflicted by a poisoned arrow at Abousheeba. Colour etching, ca. 1888.
  • A dying rat, mourned by three other rats; advertising Tord-Boyaux rat poison. Wood engraving, 18--.
  • Astley's halt or foot-rot mixture : poison!... / prepared by John Astley, (late H.J. Foster).
  • The suicide of Sophonisba: Sophonisba is sitting on a chair taking the poison Masinissa sent her. Etching.
  • Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward I's arm. Line engraving by Brown after W.M. Craig.
  • Romeo giving money to an apothecary for a poison that will enable him to kill himself. Mezzotint, 17--.
  • Adzooks! 'Adalin' is not a poison... : the proof of liver extract 'Campolon' is in the blood-count.
  • Adzooks! 'Adalin' is not a poison... : the proof of liver extract 'Campolon' is in the blood-count.
  • Adzooks! 'Adalin' is not a poison... : the proof of liver extract 'Campolon' is in the blood-count.
  • Adzooks! 'Adalin' is not a poison... : the proof of liver extract 'Campolon' is in the blood-count.
  • Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman.
  • Queen Eleanor sucking the poison from King Edward's arm. Coloured stipple etching by W. Wynne Ryland, 1780, after A. Kauffman.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte instructing the doctor to poison the plague victims at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured aquatint by G. Cruikshank, 1814.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte instructing the doctor to poison the plague victims at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured aquatint by G. Cruikshank, 1814.
  • Episodes in the trial of Dr. G. H. Lamson (the Wimbledon poisoner) at the Central Criminal Court in 1882. Wood engraving.
  • An essay on the venereal diseases which have been confounded with symptoms, which exclusively arise from that poison ... / [Richard Carmichael].
  • Roderigo Lopez: he conspires to poison Queen Elizabeth I and is hanged. Photograph after an engraving by F. van Hulsen, 1627.
  • An essay on the venereal diseases which have been confounded with symptoms, which exclusively arise from that poison ... / [Richard Carmichael].
  • King James I of England on his deathbed, attended by courtiers trying to poison him. Etching by or after W. Hollar, ca. 1672.
  • Astley's prepared wheat : to poison mice, sparrows, and all sorts of small vermin, without danger to animals of a larger growth... / J. Astley.
  • Concentrated sheep dip : labelled poison by the new pharmacy regulations and containing not less than 25 per cent of phenols : directions for use...
  • Concentrated maggot wash : poison : a safe and reliable preparation for destroying maggots and preventing the fly striking again / W.J. Davies & Sons.