Husbands, poisoned

During World War I. Haber was in charge of the German poison gas program. In April of 1915. the Germans used chlorine for the first time on the Western front, causing 5000 fatalities. Haber s wife. Clara, was aghast she pleaded with her husband to forsake poison gas. When he adamantly refused to do so. she committed suicide. 

The prosecution argued that Curley had planned to poison her husband, Robert, in cold blood for his life insurance money. She seized the opportunity when Robert Curley took a job that involved remodeling the labs in the chemistry building at Wilkes University. Joann began to add thallium to the ice tea that Robert took to work each day in a thermos, thinking that even if the authorities eventually made a diagnosis of thallium... 

I could see no way to bring the conversation around to wineglasses and poison. I wondered how I could lure this bell tower of a woman and her so-trusting husband to Ca Barbolano so that the Maestro could interrogate them for himself. She was still galloping ahead of me—... 

Gly-R antagonist (a7nACh-R) [bitter, CNS stimulant, toxic] South African Mrs Daisy De Melker poisoned 2 husbands with Strychnine thence her son with arsenic (1923, 1927 1932)... 

Arsenic has long been recognized as a poison, and was reputed to have been used by Agrippina to assassinate the Roman emperor Claudius and by the Roman emperor Nero to kiU Claudius son Britannicus. In the latter case, after the first attempt had failed and had instead aroused suspicion, the arsenic was put into the water used to cool his soup rather than into the soup itself which was tested by a taster. In the seventeenth century a woman by the name of Tofana produced arsenical powders which became known as les poudres de succession , as they were used to remove obstacles like rivals, husbands, and so on. The powders contained arsenic sulphide, aconite, box, caustic lime, powdered glass, and honey. She is reputed to have committed some 600 murders. Her most well-known poison was Aqua Tofana, probably a solution containing arsenic and lead. 

The police were alerted and Susan Barber and her former lover (she had by now acquired a new one) were arrested, nine months after her husband had died. She confessed that she had found the weedkiller Grammoxone in the garden shed and had added some to the steak and kidney pie she prepared for her husband. She claimed that she had only wanted to make him ill, and repeated the poisoning twice when there seemed to be no effect. She had not known that paraquat takes some time to work its unpleasant effects. Susan Barber was convicted of murder on 1 November 1982. An astute and persistent pathologist, together with sensitive and specific chemical analysis, had been her eventual undoing. ... 

DRACO — is Mercury, also the Black Raven, or the Black on the Floor. It devours the tail, drinks the mercury. It is called Salt and Sulphur of the Dragons. It is the Earth from the body of the Sun. It is killed when it loses the soul [i.e., the earth is killed], and rises again when the soul returns. The Dragon devours the mercury, like a poison, and dies again drinks it and is made living. If he puts off all impurities he becomes white and truly living. This is also called the Woman who kills her Husband, and is herself killed in return. 

Perhaps the most notorious poisoner of the seventeenth century was an Italian woman named Madame Giulia Toffana. She invented an arsenical solution in 1690, called Aqua Toffana , which she sold in phials bearing the representation of a saint, usually Saint Nicholas of Bari (Bari was a town whose water was supposed to have had healing properties). The phials were sold to women under the pretence that Aqua Toffana was good for a woman s complexion (as arsenic is), but Toffana also sold her solution to women who wanted to rid themselves of their husbands. It was apparently colorless, tasteless, and miscible with wine, and therefore very easy to administer. Toffana is said to have been responsible for as many as 600 murders and for this she was executed in Naples in 1709. However, Toffana had... 

At least three human deaths following oral exposure to NDMA have been reported in the literature. One of the fatalities was a woman who was apparently poisoned over a two-year period by her husband (Fussgaenger and Ditschuneit 1980, Pedal et al. 1982). It was estimated by the authors that she received at least 4 doses as high as 250-300 mg each, for a total dose of less than 1.5 gram the mean daily dose was estimated to be 50 g/kg. 

Attracts money if carried in pocket (Mexico) draws poison stimulates sensuality in Haiti associated with pagan goddess of love it is sprinkled to keep away evil spirits to bring prosperity if wife dusts basil powder over top half of body her husband is stopped from wandering and becomes faithful and loving. 

Isabella also associates Vittoria s and Brachiano s adultery with poison. Discussing with Monticelso and Francisco her plans for winning her husband back from Vittoria s snares, she says... 

Immortal longings in me, she pronounces Husband, I come, I Now to that name, my courage prove my title (V.ii.279-80, 286-7). Watching Iras die after a farewell kiss, Cleopatra identifies poison as a remedy, linking it with a pain-alleviating, and even seductive, oblivion ... 

The play also has a subplot of similarly problematic and triangulated desire, involving a husband who persuades his best friend to seduce his wife while this narrative is not irrelevant to the play s anxieties about seduction, this chapter bypasses it in order to focus on the literal poisoned kiss. 

Another case, in which the bitter taste of strychnine was to play a major role in the downfall of the murderer, is that of Lincolnshire housewife Ethel Major. The police received an anonymous letter which stated that Ethel s husband, who had died on 24 May 1934 after two days of agony, had complained that his food tasted foul and throvm it to the neighbour s dog. The dog had subsequently died and when its and Mr. Major s corpse were exhumed both were found to contain strychnine. During the police investigation, Ethel unwittingly impHcated herself when she stated that she was tmaware that her husband had "died of strychnine poisoning", before mention had been made of strychnine. She was tried in November 1934, found guilty and, despite a recommendation of... 

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