A woman sucking out poison from a wound. King Edward I saved from a poisoned dagger by his wife Eleanor of Castile at Acre. A page holds a bowl, and a crusader in chainmail holds a glass. Drew forth the poison with her balmy breath. Illustration to A Dream of Fair Women from Poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Woodcut by the Dalziel brothers after an illustration by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais from Millais’ Illustrations, a Collection of Drawings on Wood, Alexander Strahan, London, 1866.

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