ETX 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Percivall Pott, Pedanius Dioscorides, Scrotum
27 Nov 2017
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Poisons and history - trial and error: food versus poisons, acute effect - distance between cause and effect is very quick, chronic effect - distance between cause and effect is many years, substances i. Food or poisons: used to be classified just as food or poisonous (cid:840)black and white(cid:841, but things are a gradient between what"s safe/toxic, harmfulness versus safeness, there are degrees of safeness vs. harmfulness, definition of (cid:873)toxicology(cid:874) Greek poet, laced in info about toxins in his poetry. First person to try to organi e/categori e toxin information: separated poisons into animal/vegetable/mineral, catherine de medici - middle ages. In middle ages, use of toxic chemicals became more widespread. In middle ages, wives would sometimes lace toxins to poison husbands and inherit money. Chemicals in ash/sutt are complex chemicals produced by fire charbroil has this chemical: bbq, smoked meats, bbq chicken, toast, cigarettes, anything you iv. iii. i. ii, pesticide boom of the mid-1900s.
