Differing Approaches to Public Health History: A Review Essay

Abstract

while the leukaemia death of the Curies' daughter Irene was probably due to polonium.) Reading Emsley's book sent me back a number of times to my twenty-fourth edition ( 1 958) of Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia and reminded me of how its toxicity accounts had fascinated me as a pharmacy student. It also reminded of the vanished terminology, mercurous and mercuric rather than the current mercury II. To say nothing of Hydrarg, Perchlor, Vin Antimon, Liq. Plumbi Subacetas Forte, Liq Arsenicalis and Thall-Rat. Nice nostalgia.