The way this video begins will make you think it's...  ...you should read the many posts we've shared about arsenic . In other words, Giulia Tofana was a 17th-century...

Carl Scheele was an 18th century chemist who had s...  ...ular, especially in wallpaper. It was loaded with arsenic , however, which was released into the air when fu...  ...that he had, over time, consumed a fair amount of arsenic , chlorine, and other heavy metals along the way....

Is risking your life to be attractive ever worth i...  ...Victorian era, namely consumption chic, corsets, arsenic baths, and wildly dangerous makeup ingredients. W...

It wasn't until 1840 that James Marsh developed a...  ...a test to determine if someone had been killed by arsenic , changing forensic science forever. But the idea...

Fashion has always been influenced by status, and...  ...ere were hiccups along the way, like the lead and arsenic cosmetics women used to make their skin pale, and...

In the Dutch city of Leiden in the 19th century, i...  ...t in the investigation. She was constantly buying arsenic , and had a history of buying life insurance on pe...

People used to get rid of inconvenient family memb...  ...convenient family members quite easily by putting arsenic in food until a reliable chemical test for the po...  ...g. She even took samples, which were positive for arsenic . 4. The rat poison Marie left out for the rats pr...  ...ter. 5. Charles' exhumed...

Embed from Getty ImagesThe small, quiet, Hungari...  ...could help the women of Nagyrev with a supply of arsenic . Fazekas' reputation quietly spread until women f...

In 1898, Mrs. Ida Deane of Dover, Delaware, threw...  ...mination of the candy revealed it was loaded with arsenic . Mrs. Dunning didn't make or buy the chocolates;...

Nature has given us a wide variety of substances t...  ...y of the being the easiest way to murder someone. Arsenic was once the easiest way to get rid of a husband,...