How Long to Read The Poison Trials

How Long Does it Take to Read The Poison Trials?

It takes the average reader to read The Poison Trials by Alisha Rankin

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Description

In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived—the other died in agony. In sixteenth-century Europe, this and more than a dozen other accounts of poison trials were committed to writing. Alisha Rankin tells their little-known story. At a time when poison was widely feared, the urgent need for effective cures provoked intense excitement about new drugs. As doctors created, performed, and evaluated poison trials, they devoted careful attention to method, wrote detailed experimental reports, and engaged with the problem of using human subjects for fatal tests. In reconstructing this history, Rankin reveals how the antidote trials generated extensive engagement with “experimental thinking” long before the great experimental boom of the seventeenth century and investigates how competition with lower-class healers spurred on this trend. The Poison Trials sheds welcome and timely light on the intertwined nature of medical innovations, professional rivalries, and political power.

How long is The Poison Trials?

The Poison Trials by Alisha Rankin is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

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How Long Does it Take to Read The Poison Trials Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read The Poison Trials aloud.

What Reading Level is The Poison Trials?

The Poison Trials is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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