Description Of Item | Includes background material for 'Poisons and Poisoners Through the Ages': letter from Theobald Mather, Director of Public Prosecutions with statistics on charges of murder by poisoning 1951-1956; letter from F S Fiddes on chelating agents; letter from Professor Fisher, Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh on the murder of Emperor Claudius by his niece; correspondence with the Yorkshire Evening Press asking for advance notice of his lecture to the York Medical Society; letter from Douglas Guthrie with references to articles on poisons; letter from the India Office with details of a 1933 case of poisoning; correspondence with The Lancet and the Medico-Legal Journal on publishing the article; correspondence with W F Tyndale, York Medical Society on giving the address; requests for reprints of the article from the Department of Health of Virginia and the Kettering Laboratory, Ohio [United States of America]. |