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The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
The Arsenic Century How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home Work and Play
Author: James C. Whorton
Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident. — Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken for sugar or flour and often incorporated into...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199574704
ISBN-10: 0199574707
Publication Date: 3/28/2010
Pages: 464
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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