Dumas, Alexandre

G.M. Reaven, The fourth musketeer -from Alexandre Dumas to Claude Bernard, Diabetologia, 1995, 38, 3-13. 

In nineteenth-century literature, such chemical ambition to equal the total capacity of divine creation is difficult to find. Instead, the elixir of life and its counterpart, poison, figure prominently in the literature as Godlike means to control life and death. As we have already seen, that is why Alexandre Dumas pere let his Dr. Sturler say Am I not God like God -more God than God since I can retake and give back life, cause death to... 

Assaults with vitriol were popularized in the newspapers in the nineteenth century. Among the authors who played a role in these, Alexandre Dumas had some heroes and heroines who were capable of doing so [3]. Whatever, the success of such popular publications with illustrated covers certainly had a major impact. After such notions, it can be understood that it is easy to use vitriol (sulfuric acid) and that the results are obvious [4]. 

Fontana M. La Vitroleuse. Records poplaire sur les violence, etudes reunies et presents par MirieUe Piaotas. Publications de I Universite de Saint-Etienne, 2000 [French]. Alexandre Dumas fils, les femmes qui tuent et les femmes qui votent, Calmann-Levy, Paris, 1880. 

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