Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

Poison eaters: Snakes, opium, arsenic, and the lethal show.

Boca Raton, FL: Universal-Publishers, 2010.

"This book is the first to explore the tradition of deliberate poison eating, its practitioners, and the substances that might nourish or kill them" (publisher).

Facet Tags

Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Subjects

PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Botanic Sources of Single Component Drugs › Opium TOXICOLOGY › Drug Addiction › History of Drug Addiction TOXICOLOGY › History of Toxicology

Catalog Metadata	Reference Information
Entry Number	#9884
Permanent Link	https://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/12072
External URL	poison-eaters-snakes-opium-arsenic-and-the-lethal-show

Geographic Context

Publication place: Boca Raton, FL