This be a pop history book that looks at the use of poisons. It was recommended to me by me matey Sionna @ booksinhereyes. I loved this one and read it in one day. A book of three parts, the first part discusses common poisons, the (lack of) hygiene, and how medicines and cosmetics were actually (inadvertently) poisons in disguise. The second part looks at specific deaths of historical figures and discusses how modern science helped determine the true cause of death. The Medici family, for example, was known for this poison laboratory and gifted other rulers with poisons and instructions for use. The third part deals with poison in the modern world – basically as Russian instruments of death by assassination. This book is chock full of unsavory, fascinating facts. The one that I currently can’t get out of me noggin is that in Versailles the floors were covered in feces and urine because there was no septic system and royal protocols were weird. And these people didn’t bathe!

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