Pharmacogenomics for the Forensic Toxicologist
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Alfred Swaine Taylor, MD, (1806-1880): forensic toxicologist.
The systematic study of forensic toxicology dates from the end of the eighteenth century. It arose as a branch of forensic medicine concerned with the problem of proving deliberate poisoning in criminal cases. It was often very difficult to distinguish symptoms produced by many common poisonous plants like belladonna (deadly nightshade) and henbane from those of certain diseases. Medicines also...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Analytical Toxicology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0146-4760,1945-2403
DOI: 10.1093/jat/30.2.65