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Page : 964 pages
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Release : 1892
Category : Pharmaceutical industry
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Page : 964 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Pharmaceutical industry
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Author : Perry Fairfax Nursey
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 1832
Category : Industrial arts
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Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 1832
Category : Technology
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Author : Penny Deverill
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Page : 278 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 9780956242907
Author : John I Knight
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Page : 510 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 1832
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Author : William Wymark Jacobs
Publisher : Litres
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2018-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 5041238529
Author : James C. Whorton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0191623431
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 curtains, wallpaper, and clothing (it was arsenic in old lace that was the danger). Whether at home amidst arsenical curtains and wallpapers, at work manufacturing these products, or at play swirling about the papered, curtained ballroom in arsenical gowns and gloves, no one was beyond the poison's reach. Drawing on the medical, legal, and popular literature of the time, The Arsenic Century paints a vivid picture of its wide-ranging and insidious presence in Victorian daily life, weaving together the history of its emergence as a nearly inescapable household hazard with the sordid story of its frequent employment as a tool of murder and suicide. And ultimately, as the final chapter suggests, arsenic in Victorian Britain was very much the pilot episode for a series of environmental poisoning dramas that grew ever more common during the twentieth century and still has no end in sight.
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Page : 308 pages
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Release : 1832
Category : English wit and humor
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Author : Alexander T. TEETGEN
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 1875
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Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Church history
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