• 7 of the World’s Deadliest Plants
• Agatha Christie’s Poisons
• alchemy

  / Chinese alchemy
• Avoidance behaviour

  / Protection reflexes, armour, and spines
• Blowgun
• Animal development

  / Embryonic induction
• human sensory reception

  / Food choice
• Jolly Roger

  / Use in modern navies and popular culture
• What’s the Difference Between Venomous and Poisonous?

• poison

  / Poisons of biological origin
• gastropod

  / Food and feeding
• newt

• curare
• insecticide

  / Environmental contamination and resistance
• lead

  / Properties of the element
• zinc group element

  / Toxicity of the elements

• childhood disease and disorder

  / Accidents
• human disease

  / Chemical injury: poisoning
• renal system disease

  / Acute renal failure
• food poisoning
• nervous system disease

  / Toxic effects of drugs, metals, and poisons
• occupational medicine
• toxicological examination

• Plant disease

  / Toxic chemicals
• poison

  / Poisons of biological origin

Toxic substances

Curtis D. Klaassen, Mary O. Amdur, and John Doull (eds.), Casarett and Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 3rd ed. (1986), contains in-depth discussions of basic toxicology principles and information on toxins classified according to use and target organs. Analysis of the chemical structure of toxins influencing their effect is provided in Stanley E. Manahan, Toxicological Chemistry: A Guide to Toxic Substances in Chemistry (1989). Michael A. Kamrin, Toxicology: A Primer on Toxicology Principles and Applications (1988), is a concise, nontechnical general introduction. Ernest Hodgson, Richard B. Mailman, and Janice E. Chambers, Dictionary of Toxicology (1988), explains concepts and terminology and covers organizations and authorities in the field.

Exposure and response to poisons

Robert H. Dreisbach and William O. Robertson, Handbook of Poisoning: Prevention, Diagnosis, & Treatment, 12th ed. (1987), contains concise but essential information on the toxicity and treatment of poisoning by biological toxins and drugs. Avram Goldstein, Lewis Aronow, and Sumner M. Kalman, Principles of Drug Action: The Basis of Pharmacology, 2nd ed. (1973), describes the principles governing chemical absorption, distribution, and excretion of the substances. Matthew J. Ellenhorn and Donald G. Barceloux, Medical Toxicology: Diagnosis and Treatments of Human Poisoning (1988), focuses on the poisons derived from biological sources. Sidney Kaye, Handbook of Emergency Toxicology: A Guide for the Identification, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Poisoning, 5th ed. (1988), surveys almost 200 toxic substances.

Sources of poisoning

George D. Clayton and Florence E. Clayton (eds.), Patty’s Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, 3rd. rev. ed., vol. 2, Toxicology, parts A, B, and C (1981–82), is an extensive compendium of information on the toxicology of industrial chemicals. For concise reference on the subject, see Alice Hamilton, Hamilton and Hardy’s Industrial Toxicology, 4th ed., rev. by Asher J. Finkel (1983). The toxicology of chemicals found in commercial products is examined in Robert E. Gosselin, Roger P. Smith, and Harold C. Hodge, Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products, 5th ed. (1984), where information on chemical ingredients of many commercial products is detailed. Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 9th ed. by Joel G. Hardman and Lee E. Limbird (1996), is an authoritative source of information on the toxicology of drugs and includes a section on the toxicity of industrial chemicals.

The toxicology of food is the subject of Joint FAO/WHO Committee on Food Additives, Toxicological Evaluation of Certain Food Additives (1988), including lists of acceptable consumption of flavorings, preservatives, and colors; Jose M. Concon, Food Toxicology, 2 vol. (1988), a comprehensive survey of food contamination and poisoning; Palle Krogh (ed.), Mycotoxins in Food (1987); and W.F.O. Marasas and Paul E. Nelson, Mycotoxicology: Introduction to the Mycology, Plant Pathology, Chemistry, Toxicology, and Pathology of Naturally Occuring Mycotoxicoses in Animals and Man (1987). Bruce W. Halstead, Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World, 2nd rev. ed. (1988), is an exhaustive and profusely illustrated compendium on the toxic marine animals of the world, from protozoans to polar bears, including their historical background, names, geographic distribution, biology, mechanism of intoxication, and medical, toxicological, pharmacological, and chemical aspects.