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

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 | #616480 in Books |  Oxford University Press USA |  2011-07-14 |  2011-07-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.10 x1.40 x7.70l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 448 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| The Poisoning of the Victorians...|By K. L Sadler|Good background on Victorian England in several ways. When I first started reading this book, I was really disappointed. I thought I was picking up a book having to do with arsenic poisoning due to food and the presence of arsenic in things around their homes. The first few chapters were purely on people using arsenic to poison| ||"A compelling and entertaining read, with much tongue-in-cheek humor, but it is not for the fainthearted, as symptoms and distress are graphically described and illustrated. The narrative is a complex mix of quotation and the author s own words, which creates

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 the family dinner. It was also widely present in green dyes, used to tint everything from candles and candies to curtain...

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