Poisons. The magnificent history of mankind. Bradbury N.

A fascinating mixture of science, the history of medicine and real crimes. Dr. Neil Bradbury explores poisons and their effects on people at the cellular level. Real stories about poisons are waiting for you: about how they pass through the human body and what happens to this body.

The history of poisons is inseparable from the history of mankind. The insidious, deadly, pathologically attractive poisons accompanied us from time immemorial, becoming a gun, satellites of love ups and downs. The poisons overthrew the monarchies and performed fate, reflected in art and for centuries belonged to secret knowledge. Natural and man -made, slow and bearing rapid death, noticeable and those that are difficult to detect. Each poisonous substance in this book considers through the prism of history and committed crimes.

You will learn:

- how the love of a mouse brought the sad fame of Borgia - the influential family of the Renaissance;

-as in Victorian London, instead of Jack the Ripper, the Lambetan poisoner came out for hunting;

-how for the first time in American history the accusation relied on a forensic medical examination.

This book for those who loves popular science literature and is interested in physiology, history and forensics.