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  • Treatise on the venom of the viper; on the American poisons; and on the cherry laurel, and some other vegetable poisons. To which are annexed, observations on the primitive structure of the animal body; different experiments on the reproduction of the nerves; and a description of a new canal of the eye ... / Translated from the original French of Felix Fontana ... by Joseph Skinner.
  • Treatise on the venom of the viper; on the American poisons; and on the cherry laurel, and some other vegetable poisons. To which are annexed, observations on the primitive structure of the animal body; different experiments on the reproduction of the nerves; and a description of a new canal of the eye ... / Translated from the original French of Felix Fontana ... by Joseph Skinner.
  • A man with a herbal and a jar of theriac: an apothecary or pharmaceutical scholar. Oil painting.
  • A man with a herbal and a jar of theriac: an apothecary or pharmaceutical scholar. Oil painting.
  • A man with a herbal and a jar of theriac: an apothecary or pharmaceutical scholar. Oil painting.
  • A man with a herbal and a jar of theriac: an apothecary or pharmaceutical scholar. Oil painting.
  • Carbolic acid... / Hirst, Brooke, & Tomlinson.
  • Gentiana asclepiadea L. Gentianaceae. Gentian. Perennial herb. Distribution. Southern Europe and Caucasus. Named after Gentius, King of Illyria (the western Balkan Peninsula) in 181–168 BC. Gentius had a powerful navy of 270 warships (lembi) and like most kings of this era he fought constant wars, fighting with the Romans against Macedonia, and then changing sides only to be defeated and brought captive to Rome in 168 BC