Poisons: The Complete History. From Arsenic to Novichok

"Everything is poison, and nothing is without poisonousness; only a dose makes the poison unnoticed," claimed the famous naturalist and physician of the Renaissance, Paracelsus. The annals of humanity are filled with tragic pages of brutal poisoning. The ancient world,... the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, modernity...In all times, poisonous substances have become the weapon of cowards and scoundrels, fanatics and maniacs, executioners and arbiters of fate.All this is reflected in a unique book - the first complete history of poisons.Its heroes are Cleopatra and Nero, Socrates and Hannibal, Gorky and Zola, Stalin and Peter I...And the stage of this endless, cruel, and captivating spectacle is the whole world.