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  • Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): flowering and fruiting plants. Colour process print, c. 1924.
  • Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): white flowers, seed capsule and seeds. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • A poppy capsule oozing drops of crude opium and tools for its extraction. Lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • A skeletal hand offering opium poppies to a living hand. Colour lithograph after S. Smirnov, 1987.
  • Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): white flowers, seed capsule and seeds. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.
  • An opium poppy (Papaver somniferum): seed capsule. Watercolour.
  • Aesculapius and other ancients are presented with exotic materia medica from the far east, which are turned into medicines in a pharmaceutical elaboratory. Oil painting by Johannes Prey, 1791.
  • The implements used by Mr. Young in his experiments to collect opium in Scotland. Engraving by A. W. Warren, c. 1819, after W. Newton.
  • A poppy capsule oozing drops of crude opium and tools for its extraction. Lithograph, ca. 1850.
  • Iodatol : brand of iodised oil B.P. : the ideal contrast medium for x-ray diagnosis.