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The elegant science of poisons from the Middle Ages to the present day. How medicines, cosmetics, and food have served as a method of sophisticated reprisal

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The elegant science of poisons from the Middle Ages to the present day. How medicines, cosmetics, and food have served as a method of sophisticated reprisal
9.99 €
The history of poisoning is inextricably linked with ideas of fancy palaces and royal dynasties. Rulers for centuries have been in agony at the thought of poison, their clothes and dishes checked by hundreds of servants, and all rituals, even the most intimate ones, have been disrupted by the presence of numerous cronies guarding the ruling family from the merciless and quite invisible weapon of reprisal.
Ironically, the kings and queens who were so carefully defending themselves against poisons were daily and unconsciously poisoning themselves by their own hand - lead and mercury-based cosmetics, arsenic skin cream, lead-based sawdust drinks, and mercury enemas were perfectly familiar companions of royalty. In her book, Eleanor Herman combines years of unique research in medical archives and cutting-edge forensic science to tell the true story of Europe's glittering and luxurious palaces: unsanitation, killer cosmetics, poisonous drugs and ubiquitous excrement.
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