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Summary: The Poisoner's Handbook

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The early 1900s was a time of continued advancement in industrial innovation as well as the creation of deadly made poisons. Chemicals began flooding into everyday products and certain methods of healthcare, raising the death toll rate substantially. The men behind a new made justice system, what the poisons were in, and a range of murder cases with these chemicals as the weapon are all addressed The documentary American Experience, “The Poisoner's Handbook “. Charles Norris and Alexander Gettler became the face of a new method of criminal justice system in the birth of forensic science using chemistry. Norris being the medical examiner while Gettler titled with the chief toxicologist. Both men going against the norm of corrupt politicians
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