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=100   #$$a Buckingham, John
=245  1#$$a Bitter Nemesis : $b The Intimate History of Strychnine /$c John Buckingham
=260  ##$$a Rondon :$b CRC Press,$c 2008
=300  ##$$a xix, 298 p. : $b :Illus. ; $c 24 cm
=500  ##$$a Indeks : p. 277 - 298
=504  ##$$a p. 269 - 276
=520  ##$$a Physicians tried for over a century, despite growing evidence to the contrary, to treat everything from paralysis to constipation with it. But strychnine proved only to be disappointingly deadly-relegating its fate almost entirely to animal control, the dangerous adulteration of foods, and criminal exploits. The NOTORIOUS and TRUE story of how a POISONOUS alkaloid... It presents a scholarly and compelling history of this fascinating chemical substance from its discovery to present times. John Buckingham fuses his eclectic interests into an extraordinary mix of original research spanning the realms of history, medicine, literature, chemistry, and forensics. ...Changed the course of HISTORY! Uncovering details and logistics from the earliest experiments performed in an era when proper scientific trials for testing new drugs were still in their infancy, the author explores strychnine's trial-and-error contributions to scientific, medical, and forensic developments.
=650   4$$a Strychnine -- History
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