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Bitter Nemesis
The Intimate History of Strychnine
Encouraged by the medicinal success of quinine
Early 19th century scientists hoped strychnine, another plant alkaloid with remarkable properties, might also become a new weapon against disease. Physicians tried for over a century, despite growing evidence to the contrary, to treat everything from paralysis to constipation with it. But strychnine
