Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by A. Duménil, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.

  • Naudin, Philibert, active 1870.
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[1865]
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24669i
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Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by A. Duménil, c. 1865, after P. Naudin. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Greater celandine has orange latex long-used in eye disorders, classically mixed with fennel, wormwood, honey & dash of human milk, certainly efficacious in treatment of warts & other skin disorders

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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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Chelidoine majeure P. Naudin pinxt. A. Duménil sc pl.

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Wellcome Collection 24669i

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