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Concentrated sheep dip : labelled poison by the new pharmacy regulations and containing not less than 25 per cent of phenols : directions for use...
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Books
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Diseases of metabolism and of the blood : animal parasites, toxicology / edited by Richard C. Cabot ; an authorized translation from "Die Deutsche Klinik" under the general editorial supervision of Julius L. Salinger.
Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939.Date: 1911- Digital Images
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Rosa gallica L. Rosaceae Distribution: S & C Europe, Western Asia. Culpeper: “Red roses cool, bind, strengthen both vital and animal virtue, restores such as are in consumptions, strengthen. Notes: Rose water and distilled oil of roses have been used in herbal medicine for over a thousand years, and are still used in aromatherapy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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A monkey dressed as a rat-catcher, smokes a pipe, and holds a pole with a wooden box attached to it (containing rat poison) from which dead rats dangle. Pencil drawing with watercolour by Fernand Pelez de Cordova.
Córdova, Fernand Pelez de, 1820-1899.Reference: 38316i- Archives and manuscripts
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Book 13: Bites of human beings and animals, and poisons
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Ming herbal (painting): Pigeons
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Hydrangea quercifolia W.Bartram Hydrangeaceae. Oak-leaved hydrangea. Distribution: South-eastern United States. Beta-dichroine a quinazolinone also called febrifugine from the leaves of hydrangeas is 64-100 times more potent than quinine as an antimalarial in animals, but extremely toxic. A synthesised tolyl derivative, methaqualone (2-methyl-3-o-tolyl-4(3H)-quinazolinone), was found to be a mild hypnotic, and marketed in the sleeping tablet, Mandrax. Widely abused and quickly banned by most countries. Illegal manufacture continues and in South Africa methaqualone is the commonest drug of abuse, mixed with cannabis and smoked. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Poison : for the destruction of maggots in sheep and lambs : the contents of this bottle to be mixed with one gallon of whey / from Fowke & Aston.
Fowke & Aston.Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Pictures
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Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant resembling the fangs of a viper, above, and (below) a viper. Coloured ink drawing, c. 1923, after G.B. Della Porta.
Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615.Date: 1923Reference: 524731i- Digital Images
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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.
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Ming herbal (painting): Peacock
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Acacia karoo
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Vaccination, or, Blood poisoning with animal diseases / by Ed. Alfred Heath.
Heath, Edward Alfred.Date: [1898]- Digital Images
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Fungal spores on the surface of a fig, SEM
Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen- Digital Images
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Fungal spores on the surface of a fig, SEM
Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen- Digital Images
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Ming herbal (painting): Swan
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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. With ten descriptive plates. Translated from the original French of Felix Fontana, naturalist to his royal highness the grand duke of Tuscany, and director of his cabinet of natural history, by Joseph Skinner, Navy Surgeon, and Member of the Corporation of Surgeons of London. ...
Fontana, Felice, 1730-1805.Date: [1795]- Digital Images
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Ming herbal (painting): Adjutant bird(?)
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Concentrated maggot wash : poison : a safe and reliable preparation for destroying maggots and preventing the fly striking again / W.J. Davies & Sons.
W. J. Davies & Sons.Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Digital Images
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Ming herbal (painting): Paradise flycatcher
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Ming herbal (painting): Crow
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Ming herbal (painting): Quail
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Ming herbal (painting): Xichi (a water fowl)
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Ming herbal (painting): Cormorant
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A treatise on mineral, vegetable and animal poisons / [Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila].
Orfila, Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure, 1787-1853Date: 1818