Download or read book The Poisons and Antidotes Sourcebook written by Carol Turkington and published by Facts on File. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies household poisoning risks, describes the symptoms of common poisons, and lists over six hundred poisons and their treatment

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Poisons and Antidotes written by Carol Turkington and published by Facts on File. This book was released on 2010 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies household poisoning risks, describes the symptoms of common poisons, and lists nearly six hundred poisons and their treatment.

Download or read book The Home Health Guide to Poisons and Antidotes written by Carol Turkington and published by Checkmark Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the risks posed by poisonous animals, harmful bacteria, household poisons, drugs, and insecticides, and suggests precautions to safeguard children and pets

Download or read book Poisons and Antidotes written by Carol Turkington and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the risks posed by poisonous animals, harmful bacteria, household poisons, drugs, and insecticides, and suggests precautions to safeguard children and pets

Download or read book The Wordsworth Guide to Poisons and Antidotes written by Carol Turkington and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deadly toxins have fascinated humans since prehistoric times. This text draws on the accumulated wisdom of centuries and modern science to provide informative descriptions of more than 600 toxic substances from adder venom to the poisonous spines of the weaver fish, together with symptoms experienced by the victims of various poisons and suggested treatments. Harmful food bacteria, the dangerous poisons and drugs held in most households today, insects and insecticides, asbestos and toxic plants and flowers are all included in this guide to identifying, avoiding and treating accidental poisoning. Entries are arranged by common names, with Latin names in parentheses, and are extensively cross-referenced.

Download or read book The Wordsworth Guide to Poisons Antidotes written by Carol Turkington and published by . This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deadly toxins, often beguiling in their beauty, have fascinated mankind since prehistoric times. This book draws on both the wisdom of centuries & modern science to provide engrossing & informative descriptions of more than 600 toxic substances from adder venom to the poisonous spines of the weever fish, together with the symptoms experienced by the victims of various poisons & suggested treatments. Harmful food bacteria, the dangerous poisons & drugs held in most households today, insects & insecticides, asbestos & toxic plants & flowers are all included in this guide to identifying, avoiding & treating accidental poisoning.

Download or read book Poisons written by William Tichy and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the world's potent poisons, with information on their sources, how they work, antidotes, infamous poisoners and the ways in which poisons have changed the course of history.

Download or read book The Home Health Care Guide to Poisons and Antidotes written by Carol Turkington and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential A-Z references gives understandable descriptions of more than 600 toxic substances -- as well as the symptoms of & treatments for poisoning caused by their ingestion or absorption. Includes exhaustive coverage of harmful food bacteria; common household poisons; crawling dangers, such as spiders & snakes; addictive drugs; indoor pollutants; toxic plants & flowers; & insecticides & fertilizers. Also: emergency procedures; poison control centers, hotlines, newsletters, & org.; home testing kits for toxic substances; & toxicity ratings of poisons. An easy-to-use & indispensable guide to identifying, avoiding, & treating accidental poisoning for every home library.

Download or read book HowDunit The Book of Poisons written by Serita Stevens and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether they're writing a short detective story, crime novel, or something else, writers at every level--and in every genre--can find the information they need to make their work more accurate and gripping in this reference that cuts through the medical jargon to address everything from a poison's symptoms and reactions to how it can be administered.

Download or read book It All Depends on the Dose written by Ole Peter Grell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at important moments in the history of the relationship between poisons and medicines in European history, from Roman times, with the Greek physician Galen, through the Renaissance and the maverick physician Paracelsus, to the present, when poisons are actively being turned into beneficial medicines. Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Download or read book What to Do in Cases of Poisoning written by William Murrell and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poison written by Sarah Albee and published by Crown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science geeks and armchair detectives will soak up this non-lethal, humorous account of the role poisons have played in human history. Perfect for STEM enthusiasts! For centuries, people have been poisoning one another—changing personal lives and the course of empires alike. From spurned spouses and rivals, to condemned prisoners like Socrates, to endangered emperors like Alexander the Great, to modern-day leaders like Joseph Stalin and Yasser Arafat, poison has played a starring role in the demise of countless individuals. And those are just the deliberate poisonings. Medical mishaps, greedy “snake oil” salesmen and food contaminants, poisonous Prohibition, and industrial toxins also impacted millions. Part history, part chemistry, part whodunit, Poison: Deadly Deeds, Perilous Professions, and Murderous Medicines traces the role poisons have played in history from antiquity to the present and shines a ghoulish light on the deadly intersection of human nature . . . and Mother Nature.

Download or read book Dictionary of Poisons written by Ibert Mellan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mid-twentieth-century reference guide offers a comprehensive list of poisons, with information on their origins, effects, antidotes, and more. First published in 1956, Dictionary of Poisons offers a unique look back at the timeless perils of poison. In their introduction, coauthors Ibert and Eleanor Mellan discuss the history of poison, from Biblical references to ancient Greek suicide and the historical evolution of homicidal poisoning. They then present practical information about a wide range of poisons, from household products to misused medicines and more. Arranged alphabetically, each entry includes a brief description of a given substance, along with possible causes and symptoms of, as well as first aid treatments for, poisoning.

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases written by Carol Turkington and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference guide to infectious diseases, describing the disease, available treatments, and more.

Download or read book The Poison Trials written by Alisha Rankin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived—the other died in agony. In sixteenth-century Europe, this and more than a dozen other accounts of poison trials were committed to writing. Alisha Rankin tells their little-known story. At a time when poison was widely feared, the urgent need for effective cures provoked intense excitement about new drugs. As doctors created, performed, and evaluated poison trials, they devoted careful attention to method, wrote detailed experimental reports, and engaged with the problem of using human subjects for fatal tests. In reconstructing this history, Rankin reveals how the antidote trials generated extensive engagement with “experimental thinking” long before the great experimental boom of the seventeenth century and investigates how competition with lower-class healers spurred on this trend. The Poison Trials sheds welcome and timely light on the intertwined nature of medical innovations, professional rivalries, and political power.

Download or read book Poison written by Joel Levy and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Greek philosophers to Russian spies, poisons have a long and colorful history. Easy to obtain and administer, they are often hard to detect or trace. They kill, but they also smooth wrinkles, calm nerves, provide visions, and cure illnesses. The history of poison is also the history of medicine, and it plays a vital role in the histories of science, industry, and agriculture. From arsenic and belladonna to thallium and Zyklon B,Poisonexplores the nature of toxicity and reveals how poisons intersect with our everyday lives. Engaging sidebars uncover history’s most notorious poisoners and their victims—from Cesare Borgia and Isaac Newton to Erwin Rommel and Saddam Hussein—while informative case studies provide easily digestible profiles of specific substances. Learn the differences among poisons, toxins, and venoms, the five stages of poisoning, how many bee stings it takes to kill someone, and what you should really do if a poisonous snake bites you.

Download or read book Antidotes written by Robert Flanagan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-10-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antidotes provides up-to-date information on the development and clinical use of antidotes, their proposed mechanism of action, toxicity, availability and practical aspects of their clinical use. The antidotes discussed are primarily those either in current use, or under consideration or development. Some other compounds of mainly historical intere