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  • Death as a lethal confectioner making up sweets using arsenic and plaster of Paris as ingredients; representing the toxic adulteration of sweets in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1858.
  • Full report, extracted from the "Times", of the extraordinary and interesting trial of Miss Madeleine Smith, of Glasgow, on the charge of poisoning by arsenic of her late lover, Emile L'Angelier, including the correspondence.
  • Full report, extracted from the "Times", of the extraordinary and interesting trial of Miss Madeleine Smith, of Glasgow, on the charge of poisoning by arsenic of her late lover, Emile L'Angelier, including the correspondence.
  • Full report, extracted from the "Times", of the extraordinary and interesting trial of Miss Madeleine Smith, of Glasgow, on the charge of poisoning by arsenic of her late lover, Emile L'Angelier, including the correspondence.
  • Full report, extracted from the "Times", of the extraordinary and interesting trial of Miss Madeleine Smith, of Glasgow, on the charge of poisoning by arsenic of her late lover, Emile L'Angelier, including the correspondence.
  • Paris quadrifolia L. Trilliaceae Herb Paris Distribution: Europe and temperate Asia. This dramatic plant was known as Herb Paris or one-berry. Because of the shape of the four leaves, resembling a Burgundian cross or a true love-knot, it was also known as Herb True Love. Prosaically, the name ‘Paris’ stems from the Latin ‘pars’ meaning ‘parts’ referring to the four equal leaves, and not to the French capital or the lover of Helen of Troy. Sixteenth century herbalists such as Fuchs, who calls it Aconitum pardalianches which means leopard’s bane, and Lobel who calls it Solanum tetraphyllum, attributed the poisonous properties of Aconitum to it. The latter, called monkshood and wolfsbane, are well known as poisonous garden plants. Gerard (1633), however, reports that Lobel fed it to animals and it did them no harm, and caused the recovery of a dog poisoned deliberately with arsenic and mercury, while another dog, which did not receive Herb Paris, died. It was recommended thereafter as an antidote to poisons. Coles (1657) wrote 'Herb Paris is exceedingly cold, wherupon it is proved to represse the rage and force of any Poyson, Humour , or Inflammation.' Because of its 'cold' property it was good for swellings of 'the Privy parts' (where presumably hot passions were thought to lie), to heal ulcers, cure poisoning, plague, procure sleep (the berries) and cure colic. Through the concept of the Doctrine of Signatures, the black berry represented an eye, so oil distilled from it was known as Anima oculorum, the soul of the eye, and 'effectual for all the disease of the eye'. Linnaeus (1782) listed it as treating 'Convulsions, Mania, Bubones, Pleurisy, Opththalmia', but modern authors report the berry to be toxic. That one poison acted as an antidote to another was a common, if incorrect, belief in the days of herbal medicine. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Libellus de lithargyrii fumo noxio morbifico : ejusque metallico frequentiori morbo vulgo dicto die Hütten Katze oder Hütten Rauch. Cum appendice de montano affectu asthmatico metallicis familiari, quem germanicâ linguâ appellamus die Bergsucht oder Berg Kranckheit / Autore Samuele Stockhusio.
  • Museum of Arms, Vienna, Austria: cross section. Wood engraving by T. Heaviside, 1866, after B. Sly.
  • Nanking, Kiangsu province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Nanking, Kiangsu province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Museum of Arms, Vienna, Austria. Wood engraving by I. Heaviside, 1866, after B. Sly after T. Hansen.
  • Arsona tablevags : tratamiento de la tricomoniasis vaginal / Laboratorios "Life".
  • Arsona tablevags : tratamiento de la tricomoniasis vaginal / Laboratorios "Life".
  • A diagnostic blood chart / complimets of Andrus & Andrus ... representing The Palisade Man'f'g Co.
  • A diagnostic blood chart / complimets of Andrus & Andrus ... representing The Palisade Man'f'g Co.
  • 'Tabloid' Blaud Pill Compound.
  • Arsenoterapia Acetylarsan : lo que es oportuno saber del: Acetylarsan / Specia Productos Farmacéticos ; distribuidores para el Perú: Life.
  • Arsenoterapia Acetylarsan : lo que es oportuno saber del: Acetylarsan / Specia Productos Farmacéticos ; distribuidores para el Perú: Life.
  • Arsenoterapia oral Stovarsol : lo que es oportuno saber del: Stovarsol / Specia Productos Farmacéticos ; distribuidores para el Perú: Life.
  • Arsenoterapia oral Stovarsol : lo que es oportuno saber del: Stovarsol / Specia Productos Farmacéticos ; distribuidores para el Perú: Life.
  • A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Yodelca : yodo, arsenico, fosforo : indicación precisa en los estados linfáticos, escrofulosis, tuberculosis ganglionar, etc. : Aditamina, concentrado de vitaminas A y D naturales, en aceite de hidago de pescado / Laboratorio Dr. Domingo Plasencia, S.A.
  • Yodelca : yodo, arsenico, fosforo : indicación precisa en los estados linfáticos, escrofulosis, tuberculosis ganglionar, etc. : Aditamina, concentrado de vitaminas A y D naturales, en aceite de hidago de pescado / Laboratorio Dr. Domingo Plasencia, S.A.
  • Twelve French surgeons portrayed as pathological specimens in glass jars. Colour lithograph by A. Barrère, ca. 1910.
  • Nanking, Kiangsu province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Nanking, Kiangsu province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.