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The Arsenic Century - How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play (Paperback)
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The Arsenic Century - How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play (Paperback)
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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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