The Poison Cellar

At the end of the corridor between the laboratory and the pharmacy there is the “poison cellar”, a small room suitably isolated from the others and made secure by an iron grille, where toxic drugs used only by the chemist were kept and, once skilfully mixed, were transformed from deadly poison into beneficial medicines.
Various types of toxic products are still kept in the cellar together with the original raw materials.

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