It seems like back before modern medicine was a thing, prescribing arsenic for almost all ailments was all the rage. I’m going to assume that people weren’t just idiots in the past and that there was a reason for that.
Do small amounts of arsenic make you feel temporarily good or something like that? Is it a case of arsenic being useful for one specific illness and doctors then prescribing it for everything? Basically, why would they prescribe poison to people???
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It was also used as an Insect Killer, Face powder in Georgian England, and For powdering whigs. A lot of people died of slow Arsenic poisoning in Cosmetics and long term build up as medicines and pesticides. Until the end of the sixties one could buy other similar poisons from the local chemist like Cyanide for use in the Greenhouse. I used to buy the ingredients for making Gunpowder from the Chemist for my Home Laboritory at School.
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