The arsenic century : how Victorian Britain was poisoned at home, work, and play /
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...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010
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