RAT POISON FROM WHITE SQUILL

Poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac.

Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries

Features From “ Diphtheritic ” Poison to Molecular Toxinology

In his book The Sleepwalkers, Arthur Koestler commented on how scientific progress has evolved along much more irregular paths than generally realized. During the past 100 years, deciphering the pathogenic effects of microorganisms and discovering the many important bacterial toxins represent another case Koestler might have drawn. Some of the most important achievements in the loo-year story o...

From fish poison to merck picrotoxin.

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Searching for a Poison in a Poison

chlorinated biphenyl (PC8I mixtures had been described previously. High mortality, liver damage, and edema were associated with only two of the three PCB5. Using column and gas chromatography, several compounds were identified in the diethylether fracdon of these two PCBs. A chick embryo assay confirmed the high toxicity of this fraction. Mass spectremetric and microcoulometric analyses indicat...