Bitter nemesis : the intimate history of strychnine /
Encouraged by the medicinal success of quinine, early 19th century scientists hoped strychnine, another plant alkaloid with remarkable properties, might also become a new weapon against disease. Physicians tried for over a century, despite growing evidence to the contrary, to treat everything from p...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton :
CRC Press/Taylor & Francis,
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Encouraged by the medicinal success of quinine, early 19th century scientists hoped strychnine, another plant alkaloid with remarkable properties, might also become a new weapon against disease. 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 ... Bitter Nemesis: The. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 298 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781420053166 1420053167 9781420053159 1420053159 9780429146312 0429146310 |