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What's your poison? Easy to buy, almost tasteless and lethal in tiny doses, arsenic was once regarded as the perfect murder weapon. By. Sandra Hempel. Published. 0. 0: 0. GMT, 9 June 2. 01. GMT, 9 June 2. 01.

Here Sandra Hempel reports'Household arsenic' required prominent instructions on what to do in case of poisoning. In 1. 85. 1, the British government finally introduced some control over the sale of arsenic, otherwise known as the ‘inheritor’s powder’ due to stories about impatient heirs using it to dispose of inconvenient relatives. The move was long overdue. For until then, for a few pence and with few questions asked, a would- be killer could obtain enough poison over the druggist’s counter to wipe out half the neighbourhood.

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Murder apart, there had been plenty of tragic accidents. Householders waged a constant battle against the rats, mice, fleas, lice, cockroaches and bed bugs that threatened to overrun their homes, which had led to packets of poison being left lying around in kitchens and sheds across the country.

Then there were the inevitable mistakes as shopkeepers were allowed to sell bacon, butter and cheese from one side of their shops and poison from the other. People had lived with the dangers of environmental arsenic poisoning for centuries. In 1. 9th- century Britain, a rich green pigment containing large amounts of arsenic was widely used in paints, wallpaper, fabrics, soap, toys, sweets, cakes and candles, making it hard to avoid in one form or another. Throughout history women had also used the poison as a cosmetic in the form of a paste or ointment, or by swallowing it in sub- toxic doses as a tonic.

It was women who were most to be feared. Though physically and politically weak, they exercised terrifying power through their domination of the kitchen and the sick room Doctors were adding to the menace, prescribing arsenic for practically everything from asthma to typhus, malaria, period pain, worms, anaemia, syphilis, neuralgia and as a general pick- me- up.

The favourite mixture was a commercial brand called Fowler’s, a one- per- cent solution of potassium arsenite that was still being prescribed in the 1. In fact, the element called arsenic passes quite safely through the human body provided it remains in that elemental state. Arsenic trioxide, or white arsenic (which most people mean when they refer simply to arsenic), is a very different proposition. A harmless- looking powder, resembling flour or sugar at a quick glance, white arsenic is tasteless, easily dispersed in hot food and drink, and fatal in tiny doses. Add to that the fact that the main symptoms of arsenic poisoning – violent vomiting and diarrhoea – mimic those of many stomach bugs common in the 1. French aristocrat Marie Lafarge in prison; she was convicted of poisoning her husband with arsenic.

In the 1. 84. 0s and 5. Editors found that stories of poisoners in kitchens and behind bed curtains, their little bags of white powder at the ready, did wonders for circulation.

If you feel a deadly sensation within and grow gradually weaker, how do you know you are not poisoned?’ asked The Leader. If your hands tingle, do you not fancy it is arsenic?

Your friends and relations all smile kindly upon you; the meal…looks correct but how can you possibly tell there is not arsenic in the curry?’ Of course you couldn’t, and the idea was terrifying. In 1. 85. 1, the day before poisoner Sarah Chesham was hanged, a late amendment was slipped into the Sale of Arsenic Regulation Bill, banning women and children from buying or possessing arsenic And in this poisoning epidemic, it was women who were most to be feared. Women were by nature scheming and duplicitous, so the thinking went, and though physically and politically weak, they exercised terrifying power through their domination of the kitchen and the sick room. Like poison itself, women operated at a subliminal level, their dreadful purpose hidden until too late. But if women did indeed resort to poison more often than men, there was perhaps another explanation than their natural proclivity to evil. Poison of any sort was often the only weapon available to them in a society where male violence against them, particularly wife- beating, was both common and widely tolerated, including by the courts. In 1. 84. 6, the author Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton – whose work included the famous opening line ‘It was a dark and stormy night…’ – published his latest three- volume shocker Lucretia, or The Children of Night.

His heroine was said to be modelled on the French aristocrat Marie Lafarge, convicted of murdering her husband by spiking his food with arsenic. For years arsenic was used in cosmetics.

Lucretia was an instant bestseller, but Sir Edward was roundly condemned for his ‘sickening and unpardonable revelations’. He had, his critics said, not only produced a perfect do- it- yourself guide for poisoners but, just as bad, he had presented his murderess as an intelligent, refined, even sympathetic character.

Fear of women poisoners went off the scale when a perceived deadly sisterhood was uncovered in Essex. If Marie Lafarge personified the menace that lurked behind a sweet face and an elegant figure, then the likes of Sarah Chesham and Mary May pandered to another stereotype – that of the brutalised creature from the lower orders. Sarah, dubbed Sally Arsenic, was first arrested on suspicion of poisoning a farmer’s illegitimate baby for cash, but soon the whispering began about the death of two of her own sons. When the boys were exhumed, a toxicologist reported finding arsenic in both bodies.

Sarah stood trial but, despite some lurid allegations – she was said to have skulked around the countryside with poisoned sweets in her pocket – she was acquitted. Three years later, though, when her husband Richard died after prolonged vomiting and pains in the chest and abdomen, the toxicologist was called in again. Arsenic, he announced, was present both in Richard’s stomach and in a bag of rice in the kitchen cupboard.

This time Sarah was hanged. In the meantime, another Essex woman, 3. Mary May, described as ‘repulsive- looking’, had been executed for the arsenic poisoning of her half- brother. A third woman, Hannah Southgate, a friend of Mary May, also stood trial for killing her husband but she was acquitted. Perhaps significantly, Hannah, unlike Sarah or Mary, could afford a skilled London barrister. The Times announced that the cases were evidence of ‘a moral epidemic more formidable than any plague’.

When Rebecca Smith was executed in 1. The Era printed a gratuitous detail that demonised her as a perverted mother. Watch Blood Runs Cold Online Fandango on this page. She had administered the poison, or so the paper claimed, by applying arsenic to her breast ‘converting the channel of their [the children’s] sustenance into the means of their destruction’. In popular culture the image of the female poisoner endured well into the 2. Her sentence was reported under the headline ‘Another female poisoner condemned to death’.

On 2. 4 March 1. 85. Sarah Chesham was hanged – a late amendment was slipped into the Sale of Arsenic Regulation Bill as it was passing into law. Now women, along with children, were to be banned from buying or possessing arsenic. The philosopher John Stuart Mill was outraged. Why were men to be trusted with poisons and women not, unless because of their ‘peculiar wickedness?’ he asked. Watch Monte Carlo Or Bust! Online IMDB. And for what reason…is this insult passed upon them?