Bitter Nemesis: The Intimate History of StrychnineCRC Press, 16 jul 2007 - 320 páginas 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 p |
Índice
Chapter 1 Some Disadvantages of a Weak Constitution | 1 |
Chapter 2 Nuts | 19 |
Chapter 3 The Patient Generally Lies on His Back | 33 |
Chapter 4 M Vauquelins Lack of Fame | 47 |
Chapter 5 Perfidious Dutchmen Bark up the Wrong Tree | 57 |
Chapter 6 You Will Be Careful as to the Second Article | 63 |
Chapter 7 You Hold Him Down Ill Pour It Down His Throat | 83 |
Chapter 8 Overture to the Sorcerers Apprentice | 97 |
Chapter 12 Mrs Doves Brush with the Media | 167 |
Chapter 13 That Clever Dr Letheby So Ugly and Terrific | 181 |
Chapter 14 Tigers Lions etc Six Hundred Kilograms | 201 |
Chapter 15 The Blue Anchor Murder and Other Outrages | 221 |
Chapter 16 I Didnt Know It Was Used for Poisoning | 239 |
Chapter 17 Is There a Faceless Fiend? | 247 |
Chapter 18 Another Round of Pay Phone Hysteria | 259 |
Bibliography | 269 |
Chapter 9 The Fop the Scotsman and the OpiumEater | 111 |
Chapter 10 It Will Be the TestTube and the Retort That Will Hang Him | 125 |
Chapter 11 Shaken in Every Possible Way | 141 |
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Back cover | 309 |
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Bitter Nemesis: The Intimate History of Strychnine John Buckingham No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2007 |
Bitter Nemesis: The Intimate History of Strychnine John Buckingham No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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