Table of Contents

1: 'Such an Instrument of Death and Agony'
2: 'A New Race of Poisoners'
3: A New Breed of Detectives
4: 'The Chief Terror of Poisoners'
5: A Penn'orth of Poison
6: 'Sugared Death'
7: 'The Hue of Death, the Tint of the Grave'
8: Walls of Death
9: Physician-assisted Poisoning
10: 'A Very Wholesome Poison'
11: Poison in the Factory and on the Farm
12: 'Dangers that Lie Wait in the Pint-Pot'
Notes
Index

About the Author

James C. Whorton is Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle, and has written numerous articles and books on the history of medicine and health, including Nature Cures. The History of Alternative Medicine in America, also published by Oxford University Press.

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