The Poisoner's Handbook (48 page)

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Authors: Deborah Blum

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phenols

phosgene gas, in World War I

Pickford, Jack

Pickford, Mary

plant alkaloids, detection of

plasticizers

poisonings

Blue Man case

Creighton cases

Freindlich case

Gross case

Jackson case

lack of punishment for

Mors case

Prohibition and

prosecutions for

Shelbourne Restaurant and Bakery case

Thomas case

Webb case

poison ivy, Gettler’s studies on

poison sumac, Gettler’s studies on

police, Norris’s relationship with

polonium

Postal Lunch

The Postman Always Rings Twice
(Cain)

potassium

potassium cyanide (KCN)

poudre de succession
(inheritance powder)

Prohibition

enforcement of

Gettler and

government’s poisonous additives to denatured alcohol and

Hoover and

illicit alcohol and

Norris and

official start of

opposition to

repeal of

repeal of New York’s enforcement law and

Roosevelt and

violence and

Prudential Life Insurance

Prussian blue test

Prussic acid

ptomaine poisoning

pyridine

Racquet Club

“Radioactive Substances in a Body Five Years After Death” (Gettler, Muller, and St. George)

Radithor

radium, calcium and

radium (Ra)

alpha particles and

Byers case and

consumer products from

detection in human tissue

discovery of

Gettler’s investigations of

Martland and

medicinal use of

as poison

poisoning symptoms

radon gas

Rat Dynamite

Red Hook neighborhood

reduction test, for arsenic

Reed, James

Reinsch’s test

for arsenic

Gettler’s investigations of

for mercury

Republican Party

Rice, William

Rice University

Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Riordan, J. J.

Riordan, Patrick

charges against

as coroner

Hylan’s reappointment of

items left in office

use of chemistry professors for toxicological analysis

Rockefeller Foundation

Rogers, Will

The Room with the Little Door
(Molineux)

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

consumer protection laws and

election as president

Prohibition and

as reform-minded governor

Rough on Rats

Runyon, Damon

Ruston, John

salicylic acid, Gettler’s studies on

salt (NaCl)

Schaub, Katherine

Schlink, F. J.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Schultz, Otto

Shelbourne Restaurant and Bakery

Sherry, Louis

Silent Spring
(Carson)

silver nitrate

Simpson, James Young

Smith, Alfred E., Jr.

Smith, Alfred E., Sr.

Smith, Moe

Smoke (cocktail)

Snyder, Albert

Snyder, Lorraine

Snyder, Ruth

Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children

sodium chloride (NaCl)

sodium cyanide (NaCN)

Southside (cocktail)

speakeasies

cocktails created for

end of Prohibition and

profits of

Prohibition and

risk and

Special Formula One

spectograph

spectroscope

Standard Oil Refinery

Stas, Jean Servais

Sterno

Stevens, John Austin

St. George, A. V.

strychnine

from Asian vomit button tree

Christie and

industrial use of

medicinal use of

Studies in Pessimism
(Schopenhauer)

sublimation test, for arsenic

sugar of lead

industrial use of

medicinal use of

suicide

arsenic and

carbon monoxide and

cyanides and

economic downturn of 1930s and

illuminating gas and

mercury and

New York Stock Market crash and

nicotine and

Norris’s annual statistics on

sulfates of iron, industrial use of

sulfuric acid

in mustard gas

thallium and

Sunshine, Irving

Symmers, Douglas

Tammany Hall, political influence of

tetraethyl lead (TEL)

Thalgrain

thallium (Tl)

in cosmetics

detection in human tissue

discovery of

Gettler’s investigations of

industrial use of

medicinal use of

in pesticides

as poison

poisoning symptoms

potassium and

thallous chromate

thallous iodide

Thalrat

Thomas, Olive

Tiber, Arthur

Townsend Building

toxicology

advances in

See also
forensic medicine

Travia, Francesco

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory building

tri-o-cresy l phosphate

turpentine

Twenty-first Amendment

uranium

U.S. Brewers Association

U.S. Bureau of Mines

U.S. Public Health Service

U.S. Radium Corporation

U.S. Surgeon General

U.S. Treasury Department

on availability of liquor following Prohibition

Ginger Jake and

illicit alcohol and

poisonous additive to denatured alcohol and

Vance, Morgan

Vargas, Alberto

Vogue

Volstead Act

Waldorf-Astoria

Walker, James J.

Wallstein, Leonard

coroner system investigation

Riordan and

Webb, Charles

Webb, Gertrude Gorman

Wheeler, Wayne

white arsenic

Whitman, Charles S.

William’s Fly Paper

Wilson, Woodrow

Witthaus, Rudolph

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

wood alcohol (CH
₃OH)

chemical structure of

detection in human tissue

detoxification of

ethyl alcohol compared to

Gettler’s study of

industrial uses of

methanol replacing

as poison

poisoning symptoms

rising number of deaths from

Woolworth, Jessie

workplace safety

World War I

armistice

draft for

Martland and

mustard gas and

Radium Corporation and

use of poison in

X-rays

Yale Club

Zelio paste

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