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Skull-shaped poison bottle, 19th century
Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila, about 1835
Mathieu J.B. Orfila, M.D., and Octave Lesueur, M.D., Traité de Médecine Légale… [Treatise of Legal Medicine…], Paris, 1848
Illustrations of hair under a microscope, 1894
Human hair seen through a microscope, 1931
Healthy hair bulb, 1931
Transverse hair sections, 1931
Red hair, 1931
Hair in old age, 1931
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Mathieu J.B. Orfila, M.D., and Octave Lesueur, M.D., Traité de Médecine Légale… [Treatise of Legal Medicine…], Paris, 1848
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Mathieu J.B. Orfila, M.D., and Octave Lesueur, M.D., Traité de Médecine Légale… [Treatise of Legal Medicine…], Paris, 1848
Orfila, a Parisian medical professor, wrote the first medical treatise devoted solely to the subject of toxicology in 1815.
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