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A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.

An unscrupulous chemist selling a child arsenic and laudanum. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

Furnace used in processing arsenic. Etching.

Two trees being cultivated by doctors; symbolising the differences claimed by James Morison between the 'organic' and his 'hygeist' approached to health. Lithograph, c. 1835.

A chemist gives a demonstration involving arsenic to an audience. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier, 1841.

Dr. Mackenzie's Arsenical Soap.

Libellus de lithargyrii fumo noxio morbifico : ejusque metallico frequentiori morbo vulgo dicto die Hütten Katze oder Hütten Rauch. Cum appendice de montano affectu asthmatico metallicis familiari, quem germanicâ linguâ appellamus die Bergsucht oder Berg Kranckheit / Autore Samuele Stockhusio.

Death as a lethal confectioner making up sweets using arsenic and plaster of Paris as ingredients; representing the toxic adulteration of sweets in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1858.

Separation of arsenic : From the Transactions of the Society of Arts. Vol. LI. The large gold medal was presented to Mr. James Marsh, of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, for his method of separating small quantities of arsenic from substances with which it may have been mixed. / [By James Marsh].

Arsenic as a larvicide for anopheline larvæ / by M.A. Barber and T.B. Hayne.

Elements : arsenic, iodine, oxygen and mercury ; Friday, 8 April, 19.00-23.00 : free event / Wellcome Collection.

Arsenic, its physiological and therapeutical effects / [James Begbie].

Dissertatio inauguralis medico-pharmacologica de arsenico ... / submittit Alexander Krompecher.

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Separation of arsenic : From the Transactions of the Society of Arts. Vol. LI. The large gold medal was presented to Mr. James Marsh, of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, for his method of separating small quantities of arsenic from substances with which it may have been mixed. / [By James Marsh].

Arsenic as a larvicide for anopheline larvæ / by M.A. Barber and T.B. Hayne.

Elements : arsenic, iodine, oxygen and mercury ; Friday, 8 April, 19.00-23.00 : free event / Wellcome Collection.

Arsenic, its physiological and therapeutical effects / [James Begbie].

Dissertatio inauguralis medico-pharmacologica de arsenico ... / submittit Alexander Krompecher.