The inheritor's powder a tale of arsenic, murder, and the new forensic science
Explores how an infamous murder case led to the birth of modern toxicology.
| Main Author: | Hempel, Sandra. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2013.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The fell spirit of the Borgias
- The big square house in the village
- A great chain and dependency of things
- Death by toad or insect
- That good and pious man
- There's not much in dying
- A great degree of inquietude
- Corroborative proof as to the deleterious article
- Those low incompetent persons
- A very active constable
- The introduction of irritating matter
- I never saw two things in nature more alike
- She would not risk her soul into danger
- Oh my poor mother
- From the very brink of eternity
- The sequel of these proceedings
- What if the chymist should be mistaken?
- The freezing influence of official neglect
- I went with a lie in my mouth.