Review of The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

In this disheartening chronicle, James C. Whorton fully justifies both his title and his subtitle. Of course arsenic was not a product of the nineteenth-century chemical imagination, as were, for example, aniline dyes and artificial phosphate fertilizers. It is a chemical element (number thirty-thre...

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Other Authors: Ritvo, Harriet (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Indiana University Press, 2012-08-28T20:28:10Z.
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