The Inheritors Powder A Tale Of Arsenic Murder And The New Forensic Science

Author : Sandra Hempel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393239713
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science written by Sandra Hempel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how an infamous murder case led to the birth of modern toxicology.

Author : Sandra Hempel
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9781780222226
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inheritor's Powder written by Sandra Hempel and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how an infamous murder case led to the birth of modern toxicology. In the 19th century criminal poisoning with arsenic was frighteningly easy. For a few pence and with few questions asked, it was possible to buy enough poison to kill off an entire family, hence arsenic's popular name: the Inheritor's Powder. Yet if poisoning was easy, it was a notoriously difficult crime to prove. The popular press led to the nation becoming transfixed by the idea that danger lurked in every cup and on every plate. 'The fell spirit of the Borgias' was 'stalking through English society' wrote one commentator. Thus, armed with a coffee pot and some 'rat poison' one potential heir saw his opportunity. The case became a cause célèbre and led an unknown chemist, James Marsh, to develop a failsafe test. This proved a turning point in the way such crimes were investigated - but years later there was a twist in the tale!

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521864267
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Medicine written by Roy Porter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-05 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.

Author : Albert Borowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman who Murdered Black Satin written by Albert Borowitz and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Larcom Graves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Punch's History of Modern England written by Charles Larcom Graves and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Emsley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192806009
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elements of Murder written by John Emsley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of the five most toxic elements describes the lethal chemical properties of arsenic, antimony, lead, mercury, and thallium, as well as their use in some of the most famous murder cases in history, with profiles of such deadly poisoners as Mary Ann Cotton, Michael Swango, and Saddam Hussein and a look at modern-day environmental catastrophes.

Author : John Desmond Gimlette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malay Poisons and Charm Cures written by John Desmond Gimlette and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas Hurd
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297860984
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disraeli written by Douglas Hurd and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Disraeli was the most gifted parliamentarian of the nineteenth century and a superb orator, writer and wit - but how much do we really know about the man behind the words? 'As Douglas Hurd and Edward Young point out in their splendidly written, finely judged and thoroughly persuasive book, a vast chasm yawned between the real Disraeli and his posthumous reinvention' Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES 'Not only, they tell us in this vigorously debunking romp through his political life, did he never use the phrases "One Nation" or "Tory Democracy", he was actively hostile to the concepts that they are now understood to represent' Sam Leith, THE SPECTATOR 'The book is more a study in character . . . than a staid political narrative. As a result, Disraeli: Or the Two Lives is full of unexpected jolts and paradoxes . . . It proves an unflagging pleasure to read' Richard Davenport-Hines, GUARDIAN 'So intoxicating that you will find yourself snorting it up in one go, as I did, with great pleasure' Boris Johnson, MAIL ON SUNDAY

Author : Linda Stratmann
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300219547
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Poisoner written by Linda Stratmann and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This fine social history charts the changing patterns of using poison” and the forensic methods developed to detect it in the Victorian Era (The Guardian, UK). Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in some ways even defined the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann’s dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with scientific and legal authorities who strove to detect poisons, control their availability, and bring the guilty to justice. Separating fact from Hollywood fiction, Stratmann corrects many misconceptions about particular poisons and their deadly effects. She also documents how the motives for poisoning—which often involved domestic unhappiness—evolved as marriage and child protection laws began to change. Combining archival research with vivid storytelling, Stratmann charts the era’s inexorable rise of poison cases.

Author : Sandra Hempel
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783780622
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medical Detective written by Sandra Hempel and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Cholera is a killer with little respect for class or wealth. When it arrived in Britain, its repercussions rocked Victorian England - from the filthy lanes of the Sunderland quayside and the squalid streets of Soho, to the great centres of power: the Privy Council, Whitehall and the Royal Medical Colleges. One man - alone and unrecognized - uncovered the truth behind the pandemic and laid the foundations for the modern scientific investigation of today's fatal plagues. John Snow was a reclusive doctor, without money or social position, who had the genius to look beyond the conventional wisdom of his day and work out that cholera was spread through drinking water. The book draws extensively on nineteenth-century medical, political and personal records in order to describe what is both an important breakthrough for medical science and also a dramatic story with a cast of colourful characters, from the heroic to the frighteningly incompetent. The book is also full of fascinating diversions into aspects of medical and social history, from Snow's tending of Queen Victoria in childbirth, to the Dutch microbiologist Leeuwenhoek's breeding of lice in his socks, and from Dickensian children's farms to riotous nineteenth-century anaesthesia parties.