Bitter Nemesis - John Buckingham

By John Buckingham

Release Date: 2007-07-16

Genre: Law

(0 ratings)
Encouraged by the medicinal success of quinine, early 19th century scientists hoped strychnine, another plant alkaloid with remarkable properties, might also become a new weapon against disease. Physicians tried for over a century, despite growing evidence to the contrary, to treat everything from paralysis to constipation with it. But strychnine p

Bitter Nemesis - John Buckingham

By John Buckingham

Release Date: 2007-07-16

Genre: Law

(0 ratings)
Encouraged by the medicinal success of quinine, early 19th century scientists hoped strychnine, another plant alkaloid with remarkable properties, might also become a new weapon against disease. Physicians tried for over a century, despite growing evidence to the contrary, to treat everything from paralysis to constipation with it. But strychnine p

Related Articles