Poisons
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A Perfect Glutton, Never Ceasing

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Genre oil painting

Quacks, Plagues, and Pandemics

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Silhouette of a vulture in front of a low sun.

Poison Pill: The Mysterious Die-Off of India’s Vultures

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Snakes and Letters

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Opioids’ Devastating Return

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A Study In Scarlet

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Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

Studies in Sustainability
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Innovation and Regulation on the Open Seas: The Development of Sea-Nine Marine Antifouling Paint

Studies in Materials Innovation
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Our Mutual Friend

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Men wearing gas masks

A Tear Gas Tale

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A Killer of a Cure

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Insectoline

Beyond Silent Spring: An Alternate History of DDT

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Bird with Plastic

Polymer Scientist—Medical Applications
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Bird with Plastic

Pro−Plastic Bag Advocate
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REACH Ambler
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The Secrets of Life

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Bird with Plastic

Case Study for Waste: Trash and Treasure
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Bird with Plastic

Game Home
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Science Matters: Role-Playing Games for Students
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Modern Books and Journals
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Rare Books
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Fritz Haber, sketched in 1911 by W. Luntz.

Fritz Haber
Historical Profile
Harvey Washington Wiley.

Harvey Washington Wiley
Historical Profile
Pollution hangs in the air over a United States Steel Corporation coke plant in Clairton, Pennsylvania, April 1973. Previously it had been cited for violations of the Clean Air Act.

TSCA: From Inception to Reform
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British troops blinded by tear gas at the Battle of Estaires

A Brief History of Chemical War

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Chemical Warfare: From the European Battlefield to the American Laboratory

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KKK Initiation

Coffins in a Bottle

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Francesco Redi

True Science, Fake History

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English royal gardens at Kew, Richmond

No Ill Nature: The Surprising History and Science of Poison Ivy and Its Relatives

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A sample of Salvarsan from 1936

Early Solution

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A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons

Secret Ingredient

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An Everyday Poison

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Alfred Swaine Taylor on poisons

Palmer the Poisoner

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Lafarge arsenic trial

Prefiguring the Arsenic Wars

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Punch cures the gout, Gillray, 1799.

Getting the Lead Out

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