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  • Collection: Toxic Relationships: The Dose Makes the Poison

Poppy Sample.tif
Dried plant specimen. Bound volume of William Knight Vol. 2.

Image of dried pufferfish specimen.
Dry, mount. Not mounted on a display stand.

Image of bottle of medicinal wine containing a snake.
Cobra preserved in liquid. With label: 'Real speciality of Vietnam. Snake wine (one unit). Usage: rheumatism, lumbago, sweat of limbs. Dosage: Twice a day each a small cup before meal.'

Image of 19th century tea brick embossed with a Chinese character.
Slab of tea taken from China through Tibet to Darjeeling.

Viper.tif
Fluid/ Wet Specimen. Head only, some skin removed to show poison glands.

Image of model wasp habitat.

Image of dried specimen of yew.
Dried plant specimen. Label headed 'Flora Britannica'

Image of tobacco pipe made from bamboo and rattan with a decorative plaited vegetable fibre.
Large tobacco pipe in bamboo with pokerwork decoration. The pipe is cylindrical and quite long and wide, with a round hole at one end, a shallow bowl-shape at the other and a very small round hole beneath with no attachment. The decorated section…

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cylindrical box containing 14 poison-tipped arrows, quills attached to box with twine. Old label: Bamboo box, containing poisoned arrows, British Guinea." Presented by Alexander Stuart, 1887

Image of the tip of a poison dart.
Poison Dart contained within a glass tube with bungs at either end. Curare poison dart from the Amazon Valley. The tip is smeared with the Curare poison; the shaft is a slender tapered splinter of bamboo; it is feathered by some downy fibre wrapped…
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