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Family rivalry, a bungled murder and the fascinating history of poisoning. THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER meets Victorian science! 'A well-researched and fascinating account of some of the most gruesome and mysterious murders' P.D. James

Atlas der Seuchen schildert auf eindrückliche Weise die Ausbreitung von Seuchen - vom Aussatz, der seit dem Altertum wütet, und der Pest, die im Mittelalter als Schwarzer Tod Europa verwüstete, über die Cholera-Epidemien im 19. Jahrhundert bis hin zu AIDS und Zika in der Gegenwart. Moderne Karten schildern in Kombination mit historischem Material und zeitgenössischen Illustrationen den Verlauf einiger der verheerendsten Pandemien. Der vorliege...

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A new account of this critical time in medical history that is ... beautifully documented, highly informative ... [A] pleasure to read' Times Literary Supplement

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Available at any corner shop for little money and, because tasteless, difficult to detect in food or drink, arsenic was so frequently used by potential beneficiaries of wills in the first half of the nineteenth century that it was nicknamed "the inheritor's powder." But after wealthy George Bodle died under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind several heirs, the chemist James Marsh was brought in to see if he could create an accurate test ...