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Napoleon Bonaparte instructing the doctor to poison the plague victims at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured aquatint by G. Cruikshank, 1814.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 29 November 1814Reference: 10104i- Pictures
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A young woman rushes to the aid of a woman (Lady Strawberry) fainting into the arms of servants after taking poison, with her distressed husband (Lord Strawberry) standing nearby. Aquatint.
Bishop, Thomas.Date: 1811Reference: 42827i- Pictures
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King James I of England on his deathbed, attended by courtiers trying to poison him. Etching by or after W. Hollar, ca. 1672.
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.Date: 1672Reference: 36283i- Pictures
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A dying rat, mourned by three other rats; advertising Tord-Boyaux rat poison. Wood engraving, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 577345i- Pictures
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T.H. Parke sucking the poison from William Stairs' wound, inflicted by a poisoned arrow at Abousheeba. Colour etching, ca. 1888.
Date: 1888Reference: 561187i- Pictures
Ways of preventing rats from entering a building, with a dead rat lying by a poison bottle. Colour lithograph, 1948 (?).
Date: [1948?]Reference: 824378i- Pictures
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An episode in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens: a crowd gathers around Mr Mantalini who has attempted to poison himself. Etching after Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.Date: [1839]Reference: 43002i- Pictures
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King Edward I of England, wounded in the arm during a Crusade, has the poison sucked from the wound by Queen Eleanor. Lithograph by J. Linnell, 1845, after J. Severn.
Severn, Joseph, 1793-1879.Date: [1845]Reference: 548177i- Pictures
The head of a rat; advertising Surux rat- and mouse-poison. Colour lithograph by P. Birkhäuser, ca. 1945.
Birkhäuser, Peter.Date: [1945?]Reference: 689404i- Pictures
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A family (two adults and two children) lying dead in a room in their house as a result of poison gas emitted from an aeroplane flying overhead. Colour lithograph, 192-.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929]Reference: 640521i- Pictures
Use of rat poison, two dead rats and a drawing of a rat. Colour lithograph by L. Valdespino, 1981.
Date: [1981?]Reference: 824449i- Pictures
A rat eating; bodies of dead rats; laying of rat poison: campaign against rats in Sudan. Colour lithograph, 1976.
Date: [1976?]Reference: 979850i- Pictures
Three wrong ways of using rat poison: laying with insecticides, combustibles, and aromatic substances. Colour lithograph by L. Valdespino, 1981.
Date: [1981?]Reference: 824436i- Pictures
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A farmer kills mice by piping a canister of of Lepit poison gas into an underground passage; advertising Lepit gas appliances. Colour lithograph by Lünge (?), ca. 192-.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]Reference: 2002677i- Pictures
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Roderigo Lopez: he conspires to poison Queen Elizabeth I and is hanged. Photograph after an engraving by F. van Hulsen, 1627.
Hulsius, Friedrich van, 1580-Reference: 13930i- Pictures
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The Panama Canal: Baron de Reinach, one of the promoters of the canal, is forced to swallow poison. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
Robert, H. S.Date: [1897?]Reference: 532775iPart of: Un diabétique- Pictures
Men laying rat poison in a rat's nest; and a pile of dead rats: campaign against rats in Sudan. Colour lithograph, 1976.
Date: 1976Reference: 978276i- Pictures
A farmyard and farmhouse overrun with rats: the farmer greeting a man who has brought a box of rat poison. Colour lithograph by Paul Andersen, 195-.
Andersen, Paul, poster designer.Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]Reference: 659629i- Digital Images
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Inula helenium L. Asteraceae. Elecampine, Elecampane, Enulae campinae Distribution: Britain, S. Europe to the Himalayas. Used medicinally for 2,000 years. Culpeper (1650) writes ‘Elecampane, is ... wholesome for the stomach, resists poison, helps old coughs and shortness of breath, helps ruptures and provokes lust
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Masinissa sends poison to his wife Sophonisba, to reassure the Romans of his loyalty and to save her the humiliation of enslavement. Engraving by J.B. Girardin (Gérardin) after Pietro da Cortona.
Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669.Date: [between 1670 and 1679?]Reference: 2969311i- Pictures
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The face of a man suffering from acute eczema and dermatitis, caused by irritant drug applications and poison ivy. Colour lithograph after Mracek (?), ca. 1905.
Mraček, Franz, 1848-1908.Date: [1905?]Reference: 576467i- Pictures
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A Zouave soldier, holding a poison bottle, is carrying on his back Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, who is looking through a telescope. Drawing, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 571914i- Digital Images
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Allium moly L., Alliaceae. Golden garlic. Bulbous herb. Distribution: Southwest Europe and Northwest Africa. This is not the 'moly' of Homer's Odyssey Book 10 lines 302-6 which describes Mercury giving Ulysses 'Moly', the antidote to protect himself against Circe's poison ''... The root was black, while the flower was as white as milk
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Alexander the Great demonstrates his trust in his physician Philip by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him even after receiving a letter alleging that Philip is trying to poison him. Drawing by or after E. Le Sueur, 16--.
Le Sueur, Eustache, 1616-1655.Date: [between 1600 and 1699?]Reference: 643030i- Pictures
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Alexander the Great demonstrating his trust in his physician Philip of Acarnania by drinking a medicinal draught prepared by him despite allegations that it was a poison. Oil painting by Benjamin West, ca. 1771.
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820.Date: [1771?]Reference: 45040i