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1 'Such an Instrument of Death and Agony' 1
2 'A New Race of Poisoners' 24
3 A New Breed of Detectives 52
4 'The Chief Terror of Poisoners' 82
5 A Penn'orth of Poison 113
6 'Sugared Death' 139
7 'The Hue of Death, the Tint of the Grave' 169
8 Walls of Death 203
9 Physician-Assisted Poisoning 229
10 'A Very Wholesome Poison' 262
11 Poison in the Factory and on the Farm 294
12 'Dangers that Lie Wait in the Pint-Pot' 324
Abbreviations 361
Notes 365
Index 405
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Raven Nanie
reviewed The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play on February 09, 2015
The Arsenic Century
I'll go on record as saying I am utterly bewildered as to how anyone in Great Britain survived the 19th century.
Going by this book, it seems like EVERYTHING was out to get people. Their books, wallpaper, dresses, sweets, hats....even their socks were out to get them!
The most shocking thing about the book was learning that the government of Great Britain over that century were more interested in keeping industry going than protecting the lives of their citizens. It took several major poisoning outbreaks for them to actually legislate against arsenic, and even then the legislation was piss weak.
Not a book for those without a strong stomach as the descriptions get a little graphic. No photos, thank goodness, but could have done without the artist's illustration of a scrotum suffering from arsenic pock. Yuk doesn't begin to cover it.
A good book for anyone interested in toxins, British legal and medical history, and British history in general.
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