The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play by James C. Whorton

The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

James C. Whorton

412 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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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 p...

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