Poisonous Collection (#2)

Ugly milk-cap Lactarius turpis and poisonous fire-milk mushroom Lactarius pyrogalus.. Chromolithograph from Leon Dufours Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux (1891)

Aconitum
Botanical illustration of Aconitum, also known as monkshood Date: 1896

Triple form of Hecate around a column. Ancient Greek mythology goddess from Asia Minor and Thrace. She is associated with crossroads, fire, the Moon, magic, witchcraft

Physostigma venenosum, calabar bean
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Echiichthys vipera, lesser weever fish
Photograph of the lesser weever fish (Echiichthys vipera), which lives in the English Channel, buried under the sea bed with its venomous dorsal fin showing above the sandy bottom

German gas masks
A British impression of the type of respiratory equipment used by German soldiers during gas attacks upon Allied troops. The Germans first used poisonous gas at Ypres on April 22nd 1915

German poison- gas 1915
Diagrams of various kinds of apparatus employed by Germans. 1915

Cyanide dumps, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Cyanide dumps from mining, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Date: circa 1930

General view of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, around the time of the Empire Exhibition, showing a football ground, the offices of British General Electric

Toxic or poisonous substances. Pharmacy Museum. Turku. Finland

WW1 - German gas attack
WW1 - Illustrating a gas attack in the eastern war zone from an aerial viewpoint. The poisonous cloud rolls before a westerly wind towards the Russian lines

WW1 - Protection against gas attacks, Belgium, 1915
WW1 - A photograph showing three Belgian soldiers positioned in their trench, and their machine-gun ready to fire. They wear gas masks to protect themselves against the asphyxiating gas attack

Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus adamanteus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G

Indian or spectacled cobra, Naja naja.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G

Yellow castrolobium with pyramid-shaped flowers, Castrolobium pyramidale.. Poisonous plant from Australia. Drawn and zincographed by C. T

Edible blusher, Amanita rubescens, and poisonous panthercap, Amanita pantherina.. Chromolithograph from Leon Dufours Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux (1891)

Chocolate and scarlet colored Russula emetica and pink R. emetica var. fragilis.. Chromolithograph from Leon Dufours Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux (1891)

Poisonous scarlet, Satans mushroom, or Devil s
Poisonous scarlet, Satans mushroom, or Devils bolete mushroom, Boletus satanas.. Chromolithograph from Leon Dufours Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux (1891)

Poisonous rust-orange color Russula rubra and suspect brown Russula foetens mushrooms.. Chromolithograph from Leon Dufours Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux (1891)

Suspect mushroom, Tricholoma rutilans and poisonous sulphur tricholoma, T. sulfureum.. Chromolithograph from Leon Dufours Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux (1891)

Edible peppery mik-cap Lactarius piperatus and poisonous woolly milk-cap Lactarius torminosus.. Chromolithograph from Leon Dufours Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux (1891)

Poisonous fools mushroom Amanita verna and edible European white egg mushroom Amanita ovoidea.. Chromolithograph from Leon Dufours Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux (1891)

WW1 - Ad for repirators - threat of gas attack by Zeppelins
WW1 - Advertisement for Freers Repirators from Cooper & Son of King Street, Gravesend, to counter the threat of attack by poison gas bombs, dropped from Zeppelins during an air raid. Date: circa 1915

European / Common ADDER - adults; pre-copulation breeding behaviour (Vipera berus). river Ugutka bank, a tributary of river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nature reserve, Siberia

Gas-masked horse and horseman at Aldershot
Owing to the increased of poison-gas in World War One, soldiers were trained in the usage of gas-masks in centres, in England, before being allowed to go to the front

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Aconitum napellus, monkshood
One of the 36 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the North Hall at the Natural History Museum, London

Strychnos toxifera, strychnos vine
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Oleander cv
Plate 704 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Gyrostemon ramulosus, sandhill corkbark
Plate 123 from Botanical Drawings from Australia (1801) by Ferdinand L Bauer (1760-1826)

Helleborus viridis, green hellebore
Hellebores contain a powerful cardiac poison & narcotic. Used medicinally for a variety of conditions, it needed to be administered with care to avoid being fatal to the patient

Taxus sp. yew
Yew berries and seeds which are known to contain the alkaloid taxine and are poisonous

Arsenic is a highly poisonous metallic element (As). This specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London

Castanospermum australe, Moreton Bay chestnut
Photograph of the seed pod of a Castanospermum australe tree

Sphoeroides sp. pufferfish
Tableau 23 by Albertus Seba from his Thesaurus, Vol 3, 1759

Strychnos ignatii, St. Ignatiuss bean
Plate 46 from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Euproctis chrysorrhoea, brown-tail moth caterpillar
These caterpillars of the brown-tail moth are noted for their poisonous hairs, which can cause a rash on contact with skin

Cleopatra bitten by the asp (a somewhat unconvincing, posed version). Date: early 20th century

Fools Parsley (Aethusa Cynapium), a poisonous European hedgerow plant. Date: 1930s

HENBANE
Henbane (Hyoscyamus Niger), is wild, poisonous plant, often used for medicinal purposes. Date: 1930s

Sumac Leaves
(Poisonous) Sumac leaves, covered in raindrops. Date: 1960s

Funghi / Cordier 4 1876
AGARICUS PHALLOIDES (poisonous) Date: 1876

Bulbocodium Vernum (Spring Meadow Saffron), a beautiful but poisonous plant of the Colchicaceae family. The flowers have long pink and white petals

British gas mask
A British soldier wearing a respirator or gas-mask with an air-valve on the top. The Germans first used poisonous gas at Ypres on April 22nd 1915

The Poisoning of Langemarck
The scene of the first use of poisonous gas in warfare; a shell-torn field at the entrance of Langemarck, north of Ypres in April 1915

British soldier in a new gas-mask
A British soldier wearing a new gas mask. Following the German use of poisonous gas at Ypres on April 22nd, 1915, it became a common feature of World War I warfare

Colossal impudence: Protection against English gas-bombs
German illustration showing a German Red-Cross worker wearing protection against English gas-bombs. The image is accompanied by indignant ILN editorial

1555 / Fighting Snakes
Swedish countryfolk fighting serpents

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