Sorry I think I have gotten all cliched and sloppy with this one... really busy lately to do things carefully :'(
Anyway, one more to the Poison series.
Atropine : (taken from Wikipedia!) is a tropane alkaloid extracted from the deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and other plants of the family Solanaceae. It is a secondary metabolite of these plants and serves as a drug with a wide variety of effects. It is a competitive antagonist for the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor. It is classified as an anticholinergic drug. Being potentially deadly, it derives its name from Atropos, one of the three Fates who, according to Greek mythology, chose how a person was to die.
Mandragora (mandrake) was described by Theophrastus in the fourth century B.C. for treatment of wounds, gout, and sleeplessness, and as a love potion. By the first century A.D. Dioscorides recognized wine of mandrake as an anaesthetic for treatment of pain or sleeplessness, to be given prior to surgery or cautery.[5] The use of Solanaceae containing tropane alkaloids for anesthesia, often in combination with opium, persisted throughout the Roman and Islamic Empires and continued in Europe until superseded by the use of ether, chloroform, and other modern anesthetics.
Atropine extracts from the Egyptian henbane were used by Cleopatra in the last century B.C. to dilate her pupils, in the hope that she would appear more alluring. In the Renaissance, women used the juice of the berries of Atropa belladonna to enlarge the pupils of their eyes, for cosmetic reasons; "bella donna" is Italian for "beautiful lady".
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The plant you see in the picture is atropa belladonna (with some artistic license). Lots of photo references were used for this painting... the hand were a bitch to draw.
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follow the white rabbit...
and please, call me Miranda, not "bitch"...
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We stand at a crossroads, idolatry looms, traditional values in jeopardy, truth under siege, and virtue abandoned.
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Slaughter is the best medicine.
Its Friday, shouldn't you be out with your friends, scarying old people?
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Had I known but yesterday
What I know today
I'd have taken out your two grey eyes
And put in eyes of clay,
And had I known but yesterday
That you'd be no more my own
I'd have taken out your heart of flesh
And put in one of stone.
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- Kochanie, a może dzisiaj "na jeźdźca"?
- Jaki najeżdżca?
- Germański, kurwa, oprawca!
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