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Toxicology is toxic ☠️
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dansnotavampire · 7 months
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reblog for sample size and also a cookie
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o2studies · 2 months
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Calling all science students and enthusiasts!!
I would absolutely love to have a science-revolving passion project and I’ve narrowed it down to a blog/blog-type-website. I love learning about science but so rarely take the time to actually research the things that interest me. With being a high school student, exams and life this is quite a big task to handle for 1 person and I’d love others to contribute to this!
This is by no means a set plan yet, I’m just sharing a rough idea, so if you could please interact with this post or dm me if you would be interested in something of this kind. Even if you see this 5 months after this was posted (and hopefully a working project or at least WIP) still reach out if you’re interested.
You don’t have to be a great writer for this either nor fascinated about each and every science. My favourite is chemistry, but it would be nice if this project could incorporate the 3 main branches of science: biology, chemistry and physics. It depends on if people would be interested in reading something like this or participating in, and their preferred subjects. You could write about astronomy as a whole, or go into chemistry and analysing electronic configuration, talking about your favourite dinosaur bones in palaeontology, a passive behaviour analysis in psychology, or explaining how exactly scabs work in biology. These would probably be short to mid-length entries and 1/2 times a month.
But this is just my idea and how far I’ve gone with it, feedback is appreciated, there will be more updates to come (not too many until afer my exams in May tho), and I appreciate any reblogs to share this idea with others!
Hopefully a couple people would like to help out in this project and please ask questions if you have any (as a dm or ask) ^^
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banefolk · 1 month
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A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons by Frederick Accum, 1820.
This book was written by a famous English chemist and was an immediate success when it was first published and was into its fourth edition in only two years… but food adulteration statistics didn’t go down and Accum started to panic that instead of preventing it, he’d taught even more people how to do it, and he started vandalizing his own book in libraries and was forced to leave the country in disgrace.
Source: Christie’s Auction House
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Sacrifice….
(From Clayton et. al. 2015)
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This is a euphemism we’ve sometimes seen in studies that involve euthanizing animals.—Ed.
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nanshe-of-nina · 1 month
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Favorite History Books || The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman ★★★☆☆
For centuries, almost every death of a relatively young royal was rumored to have been caused by poison. But was it poison? Or had they all died of natural causes? I decided to return to this absorbing topic, which so adeptly combines my love of forensic crime shows with my passion for the past. I soon found myself up to my elbows in the grisly, the astonishing, the tragic, and the hilarious. I learned how to perform a sixteenth-century autopsy and embalming—not something for the faint of heart. Wide-eyed, I read Renaissance beauty recipe books whose ingredients included mercury, arsenic, lead, feces, urine, and human fat. I dove into modern scientific papers on the exhumations of royal bodies found to be riddled with a variety of toxic materials. And I discovered the elaborate—and to us comical—poison-prevention protocols at royal courts. As I delved into this world, I learned that palaces were bursting with many kinds of poison, not all of them deadly doses of arsenic intended to kill. Gazing at the gorgeous portraits of centuries past, we don’t see what lies beneath the royal robes flashing with diamonds: the stench of unwashed bodies; the lice feasting on scalps, armpits, and private parts; the lethal bacteria from contaminated water and poorly prepared food; and the excruciating cancers eating away at vital organs. We can’t smell the nauseating odors of overflowing chamber pots or the urine-soaked staircases where courtiers routinely relieved themselves. We don’t glimpse the barbaric medical treatments more dangerous than the original illness itself, or elixirs designed to beautify that sometimes killed. To bring you into this world of sublime beauty and wretched filth, I first investigate the palace poison culture of prevention, protocols, and antidotes, followed by chapters on deadly cosmetics, fatal physicians, and the royals’ perilously unhealthy living conditions. I then examine twenty cases of royal personages rumored to have been poisoned, from the renowned, such as Napoleon and Mozart, to the obscure, such as a fourteenth-century Italian warlord and a sixteenth-century queen of Navarre, household names in their own time but mostly forgotten in ours. … What I have found is that people living in terror of poison were, in fact, poisoning themselves every day of their lives, through their medicine, cosmetics, and living conditions. At Europe’s dazzling royal courts, beneath a façade of bejeweled beauty, there festered illness, ignorance, filth, and—sometimes—murder. Nor is poisoning of one’s political rivals hermetically sealed in the past. As my final chapter will show, in some countries political assassination by poison is as alive and well as ever it was in the sinister royal courts of the Renaissance.
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If you don’t have a liver and kidneys, you have bigger issues than expensive magic juices.
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er-cryptid · 2 days
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Gastroenterology Drugs
Antacid Drugs -- treat heartburn -- neutralize acid from the stomach
Antibiotic Drugs -- treat gastrointestinal infections caused by bacteria -- not effective against viral infections
Antidiarrheal Drugs -- treat diarrhea -- slow peristalsis -- increase water absorption
Antiemetic Drugs -- treat nausea and vomiting -- treat motion sickness
Drugs for Gallstones -- dissolve gallstones -- used instead of surgical removal
H2 Blocker Drugs -- treat gastroesophageal reflux disease -- treat peptic ulcers -- block H2 receptors in the stomach -- H2 = histamine 2 -- H2 triggers the release of HCl
Laxative Drugs -- treat constipation -- soften stool -- add dietary fiber -- stimulate intestinal mucosa
Proton Pump Inhibitor Drugs -- treat gastroesophageal reflux disease -- treat peptic ulcers -- block final step in production of HCl
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larstudy · 9 months
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🥞19.06.2023 // Not one of the most exciting day, I just did some groceries shopping and cooked some pancakes ahah I also send emails for an internship I'll be doing during the holidays (during 8 weeks!) in the Institut Curie 🩷
I studied Toxicology and Mycology (with my flashcards!) :)
Here is some Toxicology notes on the main mechanisms of toxic effects
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🗒️ Tomorrow:
TOXICOLOGY!!!!
🎧 Lovers rock - TV girl
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iheartvmt · 7 months
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Nothing like having to start the morning calculating out what is a dangerous dose of ivermectin because your own stupid little dog stole the big dog heartworm chewables off the counter 🙄
(note: fortunately she didn't eat nearly enough to be dangerous. But come on, tiny beast! How did you even get up there?? You are like 10 inches tall! And elderly!)
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poisonerspath · 1 year
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Would poison exist without us? What is poison and how have our ideas about it influenced our history? How does it continue to influence our daily lives? Why does this omnipresent and non-existent substance hold such a sway over our attention? Poison has been used as a tool to control, to persecute marginalized individuals and perpetuate a fear of the natural world. An enemy of the social order, the crime of poisoning was anecdotally linked to women. Poison as a metaphor is used to describe people and ideas that are a threat to the patriarchy and its henchmen, capitalism and religion. Understanding the philosophical side of poison, as a symbolic metaphor and occult force is to begin at the original Promethean transmission at the Tree, and follow the angelic corruption as it changes all it touches. Poison and witch are synonymous, both powerful catalysts of change. Dualistic in nature, a serpentine crack in the monolith of patriarchal oppression. 🐍 - #poisonpath #thepoisonpath #veneficium #poisonersapothecary #occulttoxicology #occultbotany #ontology #epistemology #venenum #thepoisonpath #healingwithpoisons #plaguesandpeoples #toxicology https://www.instagram.com/p/CnwuOMJr2Yo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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motivatemycollegelife · 5 months
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Just go for it ⚡
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pocketglobalhealth · 4 months
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On Lead (Pb) Exposure in LMICs
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I'm only going to provide "propaganda" for the ME here.
You have this man to thank for being a scientific voice against the Prohibition of Alcohol. Why you generally don't have to worry if the booze you're drinking hasn't been spiked with methanol. (Which can/will make you go blind and die pretty horribly.)
He was also one of the main guys campaigning against leaded gasoline!
Among many other achievements (with a lot of help from his colleague, Alexander Gettler.)
If you wanna know more about this man, I high-key recommend reading "The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York" by Deborah Blum. (Or the documentary based off of it!)
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fairedoll · 1 year
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tbh the only reason i want to work in forensics is so i too can meet a cool, fruity and dramatically intelligent detective
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eyeballsandumbrellas · 7 months
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Being a poisonous plants enthusiast is weird because every time i meet someone, i have to spend a few hours just convincing them that i am not a murderer. At this point i might as well just actually become a murderer so i dont have to defend my intrests.
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