Poison Gallery

Seeking to arrest the dread disease: ridding the infected district of creatures likely to

Seeking to arrest the dread disease: ridding the infected district of creatures likely to carry plague-microbes. Illustrative diagram in The Illustrated London News showing how a major cull of rats, hares and rabbits took place in Suffolk in 1910, after it was discovered that plague-carrying rats may have been the cause of deaths from pneumonia among four people in Freston, Suffolk. Dead of dying rats and hares were found to be carrying the plague microbes. The cull was done by many methods including shooting and ferreting. One of the sketches shows a man using a long pole to place poisoned food well within rats' holes. Date: 1910

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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. The gas-cylinders have been released by the Germans in the centre of the picture. On the right are three lines of German troops awaiting their moment to advance. Date: 1915

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Hygroscopic earthstar, Geastrum hygrometricum

Hygroscopic earthstar, Geastrum hygrometricum, and brown puffball, Bovista nigrescens, edible. . Chromolithograph by C. Krause from Fritz Leuba's Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1890. Fritz Leuba (1848-1910) was a mycologist and artist from Neuchatel, Switzerland.

© Florilegius / Mary Evans

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