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

The story of arsenic in Victorian Britain, looking both at its widespread presence in everything from candles to curtains, and also its more sinister use for murder and suicide.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    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...

  • 0199574707
  • 9780199574704
  • James C. Whorton
  • 28 January 2010
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 464
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