The Arsenic Century. How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play, Paperback

The story of arsenic in Victorian Britain, looking both at its widespread presence in everything from candles to curtains, and also its more sinister use for murder and suicide.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Author(s): James C. (Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine ,University of Washington, Seattle) Whorton
• Illustration(s): 12 integrated halftones
• Number of pages: 448
• Publication date: 2011
• Dimensions: 195 x 130 x 33
• Cover type: Paperback / softback