Episode 48: History’s Greatest Poisonings

John Emsley, 2006. The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison.

Phyllis Granoff. 1993. The Clever Adulteress and Other Stories: A Treasury of Jaina Literature

https://web.archive.org/web/20070303182947/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/angels/female_nurses/5.html

Robertson, AG. Contact Poisons: A Brief Touch. Australian Military Medicine Vol. 10, No. 2, 2001 Aug: 70-1

Livy. History of Rome, Bk. 8 c. 18

ABC. 2011. Recipe For Murder, ABC Documentary on the Australian Thallium Craze (trailer here https://www.screenhub.com.au/news-article/reviews/film/richard-watts/recipe-for-murder-184053)

Nepovimova, E., Kuca, K. 2019. The history of poisoning: from ancient times until modern ERA. Arch Toxicol 93, 11–24 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-018-2290-0

Una McIvenna, 2016. Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici.

Retief, F.P. & Cilliers, L. 2000. Poisoning during the Renaissance: The Medicis and the Borgias,1017-3455,The Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12430/549361

Lynn Wood Mollenauer, 2007. Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison and Sacrilege in Louis XIV’s France.

Karamanou M, Androutsos G, Hayes AW, Tsatsakis A. 2018. Toxicology in the Borgias period: The mystery of Cantarella poison. Toxicology Research and Application. January 2018.


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