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Excerpt from Poison Mysteries in History, Romance and Crime The Scythians are known to have used poisons and mixed the venom they employed with human blood. Certain tribes of the Caucasus are said to have employed viper-venom mixed with decomposed human blood serum. Aristotle and Strabo state that the Celts were accustomed to poison their arrows and weapons, while Pliny and Celsus refer to the practice among the Gauls. AS late as the seventh century poisoned arrows were used by the Dacians and the Dalmatians on the shores of the Danube, and among the Goths it seems to have been a common custom. Almost every savage tribe and people throughout the world have been found to have their own particular poison for this purpose, and there is little doubt that this method of making the wound caused by the weapons more deadly, has been practised from a period of remote antiquity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries by C. J. S. Thompson is about a sensationalist popular history of poisoning covering mythology, criminology, and many other interesting side topics. Contents: "Poisons of Antiquity, Poisons and Superstition, Royal and Historic Poisoners, Professional Poisoners, Poisoning Plots, Concerning Arsenic, The Strange Case of Madame Lafarge, The Case of Madeline Smith, The Maybrick Case, About Aconite and Hemlock."
Poison is definitely among fiction's greatest weapons. Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes seem to have developed the audience's taste for untraceable, fast-acting poisons. However, murder mystery is one thing, but when the story becomes reality, you have got yourself a real killer! Poisons of Antiquity Poisons and Superstition Royal and Historic Poisoners Professional Poisoners Poisoning Plots Concerning Arsenic The Strange Case of Madame Lafarge The Case of Madeline Smith The Maybrick Case About Aconite and Hemlock The Case of Dr. Lamson The Bravo Mystery The Case of Dr. Pritchard The Pimlico Mystery The Rugeley Mystery Opium Eating and Smoking-Mescal Buttons Hashish and Hashish Eaters Tobacco Lore Poison Habits
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UP THE DOSE! Long before the action of vegetable and mineral substances on human beings and animals was known, it is probable that poisonous bodies in some form were used by primitive man. Poisons have been the murderer's friend for thousands of years. Often regarded as the lady's - or doctor's - weapon of choice, they were employed for committing the ultimate crime. Nowadays they still are, with names like strychnine, thallium, cyanide and the ever-present rat poison; every conceivable fatal concoction is included in this broad collection of authentic tales of the poisoner's artform. So sit down and relax, and have a mild (or intense, depending on your constitution) dose of this "Poison" a broad collection of poison-related essays by C.J.S. Thompson. Notoir Books is a publisher of books on topics of esoteric interests, eccentric memoirs, overlooked history, otherworldly stories and distinctive voices. Visit us at notoirbooks.com for more.