| Title: |
The arsenic century : how Victorian Britain was poisoned at home, work, and play / James C. Whorton. |
| Author(s)/Relationship(s): |
Whorton, James C., 1942- |
| Publisher: |
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. |
| Description: |
xxi, 412 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Content Type: |
text |
| Media Type: |
unmediated |
| Carrier Type: |
volume |
| Language: |
eng |
| ISBN: |
9780199574704 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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0199574707 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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| MeSH Subjects: |
Arsenic --toxicity |
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Arsenic Poisoning --history |
|
History, 19th Century |
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United Kingdom |
| Notes: |
NLM copy has dust jacket. |
| Contents: |
’Such an instrument of death and agony’ -- ’A new race of poisoners’ -- A new breed of detectives -- ’The chief terror of poisoners’ -- A penn’orth of poison -- ’Sugared death’ -- ’The hue of death, the tint of the grave’ -- Walls of death -- Physician-assisted poisoning -- ’A very wholesome poison’ -- Poison in the factory and on the farm -- ’Dangers that lie wait in the pint-pot’. |
| NLM Unique ID: |
101532955 |
