The history of poisoning: from ancient times until modern ERA
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18460%2F19%3A50015423" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18460/19:50015423 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/62690094:18470/19:50015423
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00204-018-2290-0.pdf" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00204-018-2290-0.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00204-018-2290-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00204-018-2290-0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The history of poisoning: from ancient times until modern ERA
Original language description
The history of poisoning is one of the greatest chapters of the human history, where curiosity and genius, scientific discoveries and empirical knowledge intertwine with intrigues, crimes, politics, personal tragedies of notabilities, wars and natural disasters. Knowledge of toxic substances is likely as old as the mankind. In the Middle Age, Paracelsus claimed that in the world there is no non-toxic substance that the therapeutic and toxic properties of substances are indistinguishable up to a single parameterdose. This postulate still belongs among the basic pillars of modern toxicology. Probably, the most ancient way of killing people was poisoning. In addition, the presence of poison in the body of the victim was very difficult to determine, since the symptoms of poisoning were similar to signs of certain diseases. Therefore, the criminals had a big chance to escape the punishment. Nowadays, together with development of toxicology the chance of disclosure of such crimes has increased, however, the progress in the field of design and production of toxic substances has also gone up. Within current contribution we have reviewed the most famous historical cases of poisoning from the antiquity to the present.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30108 - Toxicology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Archives of toxicology
ISSN
0340-5761
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
93
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
11-24
UT code for WoS article
000456388700002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85052569962