The author concisely and clearly describes the toxicological effects, poisoning symptoms, treatment methods and other knowledge of mainstream poisons in various eras. At the same time, he also provides readers with many thought-provoking and vivid poison stories.
The author has collected more than 30 stories about strange cases of poisoning and poisoning around the world for readers, such as: the death of Socrates, the death of Cleopatra after her defeat, the poison murder stories of the Borgias and Medici families, the Salem witch trials, the poisoning story of the murderer Mary Ann, Hitler's suicide, the Tokyo sarin gas incident, the tragedy of Alan Turing, the father of artificial intelligence, the Washington anthrax attack, the poisoning and disfigurement of former Ukrainian President Yushchenko...
