Strychnine
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Strychnine is a highly toxic, colorless, bitter, crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide, particularly for killing small vertebrates such as birds and rodents. Strychnine, when inhaled, swallowed, or
Wolves poisoned with strychnine in Abruzzo National Park, Italy, 1924.
An 1809 painting by Charles Bell depicting opisthotonus caused by tetanus
Thomas Hicks, the winner of the 1904 Olympics Men's Marathon. Hicks consumed large amounts of strychnine and brandy during the race.
Oskar Dirlewanger
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Oskar Paul Dirlewanger was a German military officer, mass murderer and war criminal. He commanded the Dirlewanger Brigade, a penal military unit of the Waffen-SS which served in World War II. Dirlewa
Strychnine
…back as 1640. It was allegedly used by convicted murderer William Palmer to kill his final victim, John Cook. It was also used during World War II by Oskar Dirlewanger against civilians. The structure of strychnine was first determined in 1946 by Sir Robert Robinson and in 1954 this alkaloid was synthesized in a…
Dirlewanger in August 1944
Oskar Dirlewanger while as a Freikorpsführer
Dirlewanger in 1934
Gottlob Berger, Dirlewanger's patron and protector