Bitter Nemesis —— The Intimate History of Strychnine

----- 疼痛的克星：士的宁秘史

ISBN: 9781420053159 出版年：2007 页码：330 Buckingham, John CRC Press

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 p