Front matter

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PART I

POISONS IN MYSTERY AND ROMANCE

NATIVES OF THE FRENCH SUDAN, SOUTH OF THE NIGER, PREPARING THEIR ARROW POISON AND DIPPING THEIR WEAPONS. (From a drawing by A. Forestier.) Reproduced by kind permission of the proprietors of the Illustrated London News. [Frontispiece.

POISON MYSTERIES IN HISTORY, ROMANCE AND CRIME

BY

C. J. S. THOMPSON, M.B.E.

Author of “The History and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy,” etc., etc.

POPULAR EDITION

LONDON:

THE SCIENTIFIC PRESS, LTD.

28 & 29 SOUTHAMPTON STREET

STRAND, W.C.2

1925

First Published, 1923

Popular Edition, 1925

TO

SIR WILLIAM H. WILLCOX,

K.C.I.E., C.B., C.M.G., M.D., F.R.C.P. Lond.

As a slight appreciation of the eminent

services he has rendered to

Toxicology and

Medicine.

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