Arsenic Medicine (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

Arsenic Medicine

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Arsenic, today known to be both toxic and potentially carcinogenic, was widely used as a medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution

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