American Experience: Poisoner's Handbook
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UPC: 841887020404 / Publisher: Pbs (Direct), February 2014
A look at some of the poisonous deadly chemicals which were found in medication and household products during the early twentieth century.
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"In 1918, when New York City hired its first scientifically trained medical examiner Charles Norris. Over the course of a decade and a half, Norris and his extraordinarily driven and talented chief toxicologist, Alexander Gettler, would turn forensic chemistry into a formidable science, sending many a murderer to the electric chair and setting the standards that the rest of the country would ultimately adopt."
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