In the 1800s arsenic compounds became widely available – as weed-killers, flypapers, rat poisons, etc. – and were used in domestic murders, being cited in many famous murder cases. Atropine ...

The poison fruit from ‘The White Lotus’ is real—and it attacks the heart. ... The pong pong tree is part of the dogbane family, a branch of flowering plants famous for producing poisons.

Flaco, New York’s famous owl, had rat poison in his system when he died. March 27, 2024. 4 min. Flaco, a Eurasian eagle owl, became a celebrity in New York before his death last month.

Locusta testing the poison prepared for Britannicus in the presence of Nero, by Joseph-Noël Sylvestre (1876). Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Halotus was the emperor’s taster and the main ...