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The Deadly Dinner Party by Jonathan A. Edlow
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bookshelves: non-fiction, medicine, las-drogas, flora, food

Highly accessible to the layperson about the history of popular poisons and conditions.
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August 17, 2013 – Started Reading
August 17, 2013 – Shelved as: to-read
August 17, 2013 – Shelved
August 17, 2013 –
page 30
11.36% "This makes me paranoid about eating anything ever again."
August 17, 2013 –
page 50
18.94% "I'm never really sure how to feel about the treatment of "Typhoid Mary". She was entirely unaware of the majority of the people she infected. On the other hand, she was defiantly ignorant after being told she was a carrier. Still, she spent nearly twenty-five years in a island hospital. It's a wonder she didn't go insane."
August 17, 2013 –
page 70
26.52% "I now know more about rashes than I ever, ever wanted to know. PUSTULES. VESICLES. Glad I already ate dinner."
August 20, 2013 – Shelved as: non-fiction
August 20, 2013 – Shelved as: medicine
August 20, 2013 – Shelved as: las-drogas
August 20, 2013 – Shelved as: flora
August 20, 2013 – Shelved as: food
August 20, 2013 – Finished Reading

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