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Alcohol is compared to the upas tree

People reaching for alcoholic drink falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas tree; skeletons litter the ground. Alcohol is compared to the upas tree, a poisonous tree allegedly fatal to approach with sap that is used as arrow poison. Colored etching by British caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank (1792-1878), c1842. (Source: Courtesy of the Wellcome Library, London, UK. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)

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