Bitter nemesis : the intimate history of strychnine / John Buckingham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckingham, J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strychnine--History.

Strychnine.

Poisons--History.

Poisons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Encouraged by the medicinal success of quinine, early 19th century scientists hoped strychnine, another plant alkaloid with remarkable properties, might also become a new weapon against disease. Physicians tried for over a century, despite growing evidence to the contrary, to treat everything from paralysis to constipation with it. But strychnine proved only to be disappointingly deadly-relegating its fate almost entirely to animal control, the dangerous adulteration of foods, and criminal exploits. The NOTORIOUS and TRUE story of how a POISONOUS alkaloid...Bitter Nemesis: The

Contents:

Front cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Picture Credits; Acknowledgments; Note on Weights and Measures; Note on Nomenclature; Introduction; Chapter 1. Some Disadvantages of a Weak Constitution; Chapter 2. Nuts; Chapter 3. The Patient Generally Lies on His Back; Chapter 4. M. Vauquelin's Lack of Fame; Chapter 5. Perfidious Dutchmen Bark up the Wrong Tree; Chapter 6. You Will Be Careful as to the Second Article; Chapter 7. You Hold Him Down, I'll Pour It Down His Throat; Chapter 8. Overture to the Sorcerer's Apprentice; Chapter 9. The Fop, the Scotsman and the Opium-Eater

Chapter 10. It Will Be the Test-Tube and the Retort That Will Hang HimChapter 11. Shaken in Every Possible Way; Chapter 12. Mrs. Dove's Brush with the Media; Chapter 13. That Clever Dr. Letheby, So Ugly and Terrific; Chapter 14. Tigers, Lions, etc.; Six Hundred Kilograms; Chapter 15. The Blue Anchor Murder and Other Outrages; Chapter 16. I Didn't Know It Was Used for Poisoning; Chapter 17. Is There a Faceless Fiend?; Chapter 18. Another Round of Pay Phone Hysteria; Bibliography; Index; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611122799

9781040208199

1040208193

9780429146312

0429146310

9781281122797

1281122793

9781420053166

1420053167

OCLC:

163811165