Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar by Peter Macinnis

Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar

Peter Macinnis

256 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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A tour of the many applications of common toxins traces their origins and detection processes as well as their use in medicine, food, cleaning products, cosmetics, and war, in an account that also cites the utilization of poisons throughout histor...

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