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  • Collection: Toxic Relationships: The Dose Makes the Poison

Image of model wasp habitat.

Image of opium pipe made of wood, ivory, and metal.
Part of an opium smokers outfit, in laquered bamboo, with ivory terminals and white metal bowl.

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

Black and white engraving of Paracelsus.
Public domain image of Paracelsus

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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…

Image of early 20th century poison gas antidote in metal box.
Box 'Take capsule between thumb and first finger of each hand, press ends downwards to break in centre, Inhale vapour'

Model of red opium poppy.

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

Image of an early 20th century radium compress encased in a protective container.
Used for treating rheumatism
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