"Interesting Scientific Pop" - a new series of popular science books.... Everything is poison, and nothing is devoid of toxicity; only one dose makes the poison invisible," said the famous natural scientist and physician of the Renaissance Paracelsus. The fateful pages of brutal poisoning are inscribed in the chronicle of mankind. The ancient world, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, modernity... At any time, poisonous substances became weapons of cowards and villains, fanatics and maniacs, executioners and arbiters of fate. All this is reflected in a unique book - the first complete history of poisons...