Opium lettuce (Lactuca virosa): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.

  • Naudin, Philibert, active 1870.
Date:
[1865]
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24680i
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Opium lettuce contains lactucarium, a sedative formerly used as a home remedy for coughs etc.

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[Paris], [1865] (Paris : F. Lamoureux)

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1 print : etching with rouletted tints, with watercolour

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Laitue vireuse. P. Naudin pinxt. C. Pierre sc pl.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 24680i

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