Chapter I: 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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