Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gallagher, Robert E

Titel

Arsenic — New Life for an Old Potion

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 1998-11, Vol.339 (19), p.1389-1391

Ort / Verlag

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

1998

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• One of our gentlemen found time to say `How delicious!'” declares Aunt Abby to a mortified Mortimer after he discovers a corpse in the 1944 movie classic Arsenic and Old Lace. The film's portrayal of rapid death after drinking arsenic-spiked elderberry wine epitomizes the public's fearful perception of this poisonous metallic element. The cognoscenti, of course, knew that rapid death was not due to the arsenic but the strychnine and cyanide that were also added to the wine, and that the manifestations of arsenic poisoning are typically not acute. Arsenic poisoning due to contaminated drinking water and industrial pollutants is . . .