[HN Gopher] Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When P...
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When Pope Clement
       Tested Poisons
        
       Author : Petiver
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2021-01-14 21:30 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
        
       | lazlee wrote:
       | "Sometime in the 1540s or 1550s, the esteemed anatomist Gabriele
       | Falloppio (1523-1562) described a test he had conducted on a
       | condemned criminal granted to him by Grand Duke Cosimo I de'
       | Medici. Duke Cosimo gave him the convict with the understanding
       | that Falloppio could kill the man as he wished and dissect the
       | body afterward. Falloppio decided to experiment with fatal doses
       | of opium, a substance often described as a poison in the
       | scholarly literature.
       | 
       | The prisoner survived the first test and asked for the dose to be
       | doubled on the second attempt..."
       | 
       | Lol.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2021-01-15 23:02 UTC)