Poisoning Collection

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Sir William Gull (1816 - 1890), studied medicine at St Guy's in London. In 1872 Gull was made a Baronet and became physician to Queen Victoria, treating the Prince of Wales for typhoid

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

Eugene Turpin, inventor of turpinite, WW1
Eugene Turpin, French inventor and chemist who in 1884, first discovered melinite (picric acid) which produced the worlds first explosive shells

Horse serum laboratory at Elstree, 1915
The laboratory of the horse serum farm at Elstree, 1915. One unusual contribution of the horse to the war effort was as a supply of serum which acted as an antidote to tetanus poisoning

Advert for Sanitas - family antiseptic for wounds 1937
Just a small wound but.... I never run the risk of blood poisoning. As soon as any member of my family gets a scratch or cut, let alone a more serious wound, I instantly apply Sanitas

Macdonald Monument
The fine monument to Margaret (nee Gladstone) Macdonald, wife of British Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald, Lincolns Inn Fields, London. She died prematurely of blood poisoning Date: 1870 - 1911

The Funeral of Hans Christian Petersen, British Arctic Exped
Engraving showing the funeral of Hans Christian Petersen, the Danish interpreter, during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876

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

The Reign of Suspicion at Yildiz Kiosk
Scene from the kitchens of the Sultan at the palace of Yildiz in Turkey, showing the Sultans dinner being tasted and then sealed with a long ribbon by palace officials, in order to avoid poisoning

Sclerotium Clavus
ERGOT of rye seed, a diseased transformation by a fungus, which can lead to poisoning by contaminated bread. Right : TILLETIA CARIES, another harmful growth

Crime / Maybrick / 1889
The coroners inquest at the Maybrick. Mrs Florence Maybrick is eventually found guilty of poisoning her husband, James Maybrick and imprisoned

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