Poison deadly deeds, perilous professions, and murderous medicines
"A humorous and informative book that traces the role poisons have played in human history from antiquity to the present. Part history, part chemistry, part whodunit"--
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown Books for Young Readers,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- No bane, no gain: poisons in the ancient world
- That's classic: poison in Greece and Rome
- Poisons, potions, and witches' brews: the Middle Ages
- The wretched Renaissance
- Crime and corruption: the sinister seventeenth century
- Murder and medicine in the Age of Reason
- Bad heir days: poisons in the nineteenth century
- Twentieth-century tox
- New and noxious: poisons in the twenty-first century and beyond.
