The Arsenic Century How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

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ISBN: 9780199574704 | 0199574707
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/28/2010

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The murderer's favourite method of despatch. The suicide's friend. The lethal everyday presence in everything from candles to clothing, wallpaper to pints of beer. This is the alarming yet intriguing story of arsenic and the Victorians. Book jacket.

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List of Illustrations	p. xx
'Such an Instrument of Death and Agony'	p. 1
'A New Race of Poisoners'	p. 24
A New Breed of Detectives	p. 52
'The Chief Terror of Poisoners'	p. 82
A Penn'orth of Poison	p. 113
'Sugared Death'	p. 139
'The Hue of Death, the Tint of the Grave'	p. 169
Walls of Death	p. 203
Physician-Assisted Poisoning	p. 229
'A Very Wholesome Poison'	p. 262
Poison in the Factory and on the Farm	p. 294
'Dangers that Lie Wait in the Pint-Pot'	p. 324
Abbreviations	p. 361
Notes	p. 365
Index	p. 405
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The Arsenic Century How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

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