Bitter Nemesis: The Intimate History of Strychnine
ISBN: 9780429146312
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / CRC Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Bioscience; Physical Sciences; Forensic Science; Pharmaceutical Science; Chemistry; Medicinal & Pharmaceutical Chemistry;

Encouraged by the medicinal success of quinine, early 19th century scientists hoped strychnine, another plant alkaloid with remarkable properties, might also become a new weapon against disease. Physicians tried for over a century, despite growing evidence to the contrary, to treat everything from paralysis to constipation with it. But strychnine p


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