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.
Robert Burns Woodward
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Robert Burns Woodward was an American organic chemist. He is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century, having made many key contributions to the subje
Woodward talked about Chlorophyll in 1965