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  • Stomach from a case of nitro-hydrochloric acid poisoning
  • Oesophagus, stomach and intestine from a case of poisoning by hydrochloric acid
  • Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac. Lithograph by Z. Belliard, 1838.
  • Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac. Lithograph by Z. Belliard, 1838.
  • Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac. Lithograph by Z. Belliard, 1838.
  • Pepsinacid : granulado a base de pepsina y acido clorhidrico : insuficiencias gastricas, diarreas, colitis, urticaria / Laboratorios Brunschwig & Co.
  • Pepsinacid : granulado a base de pepsina y acido clorhidrico : insuficiencias gastricas, diarreas, colitis, urticaria / Laboratorios Brunschwig & Co.
  • Erythroxylum coca Lam. Erythroxylaceae Coca. Distribution: Peru . Cocaine is extracted from the leaf. It is no longer in the UK Pharmacopoeia (used to be used as a euphoriant in ‘Brompton Mixture’ for terminally ill patients). Cocaine, widely used as a local anaesthetic until 1903, inhibits re-uptake of dopamine and serotonin at brain synapses so these mood elevating chemicals build up and cause a ‘high’. Its use was often fatal. Coca leaf chewing was described by Nicolas Monardes (1569
  • The name "H. Cline"; the outline of a femur; and studs. Relief etchings by Henry Cline, 1784/1811.
  • The name "H. Cline"; the outline of a femur; and studs. Relief etchings by Henry Cline, 1784/1811.
  • The name "H. Cline"; the outline of a femur; and studs. Relief etchings by Henry Cline, 1784/1811.