Poison, Detection and the Victorian Imagination by Ian Burney

Poison, Detection and the Victorian Imagination

Encounters: Cultural Histories

Ian Burney

208 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history
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This fascinating book looks at the phenomenon of murder and poisoning in the nineteenth century. Focusing on the case of William Palmer, a medical doctor who in 1856 was convicted of murder by poisoning, it examines how his case baffled toxicologi...

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