Poisons: Full story. From arsenic to the "beginner". Privalov K. B.

“Everything is poison, and nothing is devoid of toxicity; Only the dose makes the poison inconspicuous, ”said the famous natural scientist and physician of the Renaissance of Paracelsus. Fatal pages of cruel poisoning are inscribed in the chronicle of humanity. The ancient world, the Renaissance, the age of enlightenment, modernity... At any time, poisonous substances became the weapon of panties and villains, fanatics and maniacs, executioners and tops of fate. All this is reflected in a unique book - the first complete history of poisons. Her heroes are Cleopatra and Nero, Socrates and Hannibal, Gorky and Zola, Stalin and Peter I... And the scene of this endless, cruel and exciting performance is the whole world.