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Arsenic-based medicine, Wm. R. Warner & Co., about 1900
Arsenic-trioxide tablets, Wm. R. Warner & Co., about 1900
Laudanum, Edward D. Depew & Co., about 1880-1900
Strychnine sulphate, Eli Lilly & Company, about 1910
Morphine, about 1880
Belladonna leaf extract, Sharp & Dohme Co., Baltimore, about 1925
Marsh Test Apparatus, Steel engraving, 1867
Coffin-shaped poison bottle, 19th century
Skull-and-crossbones rectangular poison bottle, 19th century
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Arsenic-based medicine, Wm. R. Warner & Co., about 1900
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Arsenic-based medicine, Wm. R. Warner & Co., about 1900
Arsenic was widely used as a medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries. The development of forensic toxicology coincided with the spread of mass-produced and commercially distributed medicines and poisons (sometimes the same thing), and an associated rise in murders and suicides involving those substances.
National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution