Poison : deadly deeds, perilous professions, and murderous medicines

Poison Deadly deeds, perilous professions, and murderous medicines

Sarah Albee

Book - 2017

"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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Subjects
Poisons > Juvenile literature.
Toxicology > Juvenile literature.
Poisoning > Juvenile literature.
Poisons > History > Juvenile literature.
Hazardous substances > Juvenile literature.
Published
New York : Crown Books for Young Readers [2017]
Language
English
Main Author
Sarah Albee (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-175) and index.
ISBN
9781537987637
9781101932247
9781101932230
  • 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.

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