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  • Hemlock (Conium maculatum): flowering plants growing by a river. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Aristotle refusing the hemlock (?). Oil painting by a painter in the circle of G.B. Langetti.
  • Aristotle refusing the hemlock (?). Oil painting by a painter in the circle of G.B. Langetti.
  • Aristotle refusing the hemlock (?). Oil painting by a painter in the circle of G.B. Langetti.
  • Two flowering plants: scarlet phelypaea (Phelypaea coccinea) and water hemlock (Oenanthe crocata). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1824.
  • Four poisonous plants: hemlock (Conium maculatum), henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), opium lettuce (Lactuca virosa) and autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale). Coloured engraving by J. Johnstone.
  • Five roots of different forms: spindle-shaped (carrot), fibrous (grass), beet-shaped (radish), tuberous (water hemlock), and onion-shaped (onion). Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • This month (April) you should abstain from hemlock, henbane, deadly mandrake, arsenic sublimate, etc., for most physicians agree that all these plants are more or less unwholesome ...
  • Conium maculatum : Vertigo-Heel.
  • Conium maculatum : Vertigo-Heel.
  • Stoicism: above, the suicide of Seneca; middle, Zeno and Chrysippus; below, the suicides of Socrates and Cato. Engraving by W. Hole, ca. 1614.
  • Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)
  • Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)
  • Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)
  • Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)
  • Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)