num_pages: 266
description: A tour of the many applications of common toxins traces their origins and detection processes as well as their use in medicine, food, cleaning products, cosmetics, and war, in an account that also cites the utilization of poisons throughout history and in key literary works. By the author of The Story of Sugar. Reprint.
language: English
title: Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean of Calabar
titlecomplete: Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean of Calabar
genres: Chemistry, Medicine, Plants, True Crime, History, Science, Historical, Reference, Nonfiction, Medical
ratings_count: 543
publisher: Arcade Publishing