Poisons and poisoning

The phone number can be used for a poison emergency or questions about poisons and poison prevention. 

Notorious Poisoners and Poisoning Cases, Pages 265-276, Joanna Willis, Thomas Floldsworth and Katherine Cathrow SummaryPlus Full Text + Links PDF (140 K)... 

See also Ancient Warfare and Toxicology Notorious Poisoners and Poisoning Cases Hemlock, Poison Toxicology, History of. 

Interaction with private and governmental agencies whose activities influence poisoning and poison centers. 

Harvesting plants and extracting venom for raw materials is the least expensive method of obtaining poisons and poison components. A great deal of material can be gathered when abundant and stored for later. Many assassins will cultivate a secret garden or snake pit for this purpose. Besides being inexpensive and convenient, it insures the assassin a measure of secrecy and assures quality poisons. 

Chemical deactivation of oxygen storage materials occurs primarily by two modes sulfur poisoning and poisoning from oil additives. Each of these is discussed in turn below. 

The USA clarified its position on poison and poisoned weapons in The Rules of Land Warfare , War Department Document No. 468, paragraph 177, wherein it was made clear that poison applied to the contamination of water sources and the depositing therein of the carcases of animals. This codification by the USA represented an easing of the position adopted by that country in 1863 (General Orders War Department No. 100) ... 

The prohibition of the use of poison in warfare is rooted in taboos found in moral and cultural traditions around the world. Ancient Greeks and Romans observed a prohibition on the use of poison and poisonous weapons and the Manu Law of War in India in 500 bc banned the use of such weapons. A thousand years later, regulations on the conduct of war drawn from the Koran by the Saracens prohibited poisoning. 

FarreU M (1992). Poisons and Poisoners. An Encyclopedia of Homicidal Poisonings. Robert Hale Limited, London. 

Attempts to outlaw the use of chemical weapons have been made for more than a century. The Brussels Declaration of 1874 prohibited the use of poisons and poisoned bullets during warfare, and signatories of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 additionally agreed... 

KN Bagachi. Poisons and Poisoning—Their History and Romance and Their Detection in Crime. Bengal University of Calcutta Press, 1969. 

Toxicology is the term applied to a study of poisons and poisoning—and there are several subdivisions of the topic... 

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