Professional poisoners

The properties of arsenic sulfides were known to physicians and professional poisoners in the fifth century B.C.E. Albertus Magnus (1193-1280) is credited with having isolated elemental arsenic by heating auripigment (AS2S3) with soap. 

The prevention of the professional poisoning caused by lead - Case study... 

The host of new synthetic organic pesticides presents a variety of problems to the practicing physician because of the lack of basic fundamental information on these chemicals. The American Medical Association has organized a committee on pesticides to consider the following problems of economic poisons and to coordinate information and make it available to physicians and other interested persons or groups safe standards of use, development of prophylactic and antidotal measures, voluntary industry controls, standardization of nomenclature, and professional and public education. 

Kosmider S, Petelenz T. 1962. [Electrocardiographic changes in elderly patients with chronic professional lead poisoning]. Pol Arch Med Wewn 32 437-442. (Polish)... 

Field First Aid Remove victim(s) to an area of safety (away from the Hot Zone). Remember patients may contaminate you and/or other emergency responders if you fail to don proper personal protective equipment. Provide victims with emergency medical care as soon as possible. Unless otherwise recommended, remove victim(s) clothing, shoes, and personnel belongings for later return. If the victim was obviously in contact with infectious substance(s), flush skin and eyes for fifteen to twenty minutes. Route victim(s) to hospital for a physician s professional opinion. Ensure that hospital staff is fully aware of the medical situation and the poison or infectious substance that may be involved. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay test (ELISA) is now approved for anthrax use in hospital laboratories. 

Most drugs are made from or with highly toxic or poisonous chemicals, if used improperly they can cause disease, cancer, or immediate death. Even the most simple of chemical reactions are not to be taken lightly or unprofessionally. Go to a college or some other type of professional laboratory and ask if they will show you around seven times out of ten they will give you a tour. Look over their equipment notice the cleanliness of even the floor. Look at the chemists themselves see how serious and professional they act. This is how your laboratory should look. 

In many countries around the world, poison information centres are established to address the concerns of the general public as well as the needs of health professionals in managing a poisoned patient. Historically, the poison centres arose from the need to provide information on the diagnosis and treatment of poisoning cases. In the United States, for... 

Pesticides are chemicals used to eliminate unwanted organisms. Common targets for pesticides include insects, weeds (herbicides), fungi, and rodents. Poisoning from pesticides often affects professional exterminators, agricultural workers, and consumers (Table 7.7). More than half of the poisonings due to agricultural pesticides affect children. 

Klaassen CD (ed.). Casarett and DouU s Toxicology, the Basic Science of Poisons (6th ed.). New York McGraw Professional, 2001. 

These compounds are mainly used as agricultural and household insecticides. The poisoning may be occupational (for those who are involved professionally with these agents), accidental (accidental consumption) or suicidal due to intentional ingestion of these compounds. 

Or the murderer is a professional killer, Excellency. The Maestro stretched his lips in a smile. Madonna Bianca, are you certain that no one put poison in your grandfather s glass ... 

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