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Bitter Nemesis The Intimate History of Strychnine 1st Edition by John Buckingham ISBN 1138445797 9781138445796

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Author(s): John Buckingham
ISBN(s): 1420053159
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 9.23 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1138445797

ISBN 13: 9781138445796

Author: John Buckingham

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 

Table of contents: 

1 Some Disadvantages of a Weak Constitution
Endnotes
2 Nuts
Endnotes
3 The Patient Generally Lies on His Back
Endnotes
4 M. Vauquelin’s Lack of Fame
Endnotes
5 Perfidious Dutchmen Bark up the Wrong Tree
Endnotes
6 You Will Be Careful as to the Second Article
Endnotes
7 You Hold Him Down, I’ll Pour It Down His Throat
Endnotes
8 Overture to the Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Endnotes
9 The Fop, the Scotsman and the Opium-Eater
Endnotes
10 It Will Be the Test-Tube and the Retort That Will Hang Him
Endnotes
11 Shaken in Every Possible Way
Endnotes
12 Mrs. Dove’s Brush with the Media
Endnotes
13 That Clever Dr. Letheby, So Ugly and Terrific
Endnotes
14 Tigers, Lions, etc.; Six Hundred Kilograms
Endnotes
15 The Blue Anchor Murder and Other Outrages
Endnotes
16 I Didn’t Know It Was Used for Poisoning
Endnotes
17 Is There a Faceless Fiend?
Endnotes
18 Another Round of Pay Phone Hysteria
Endnotes

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