The royal art of poison : filthy palaces, fatal cosmetics, deadly medicine, and murder most foul / Eleanor Herman.
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SoundPublisher: Holland, OH : Dreamscape Media, LLC, [2018]Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 9 audio discs (10 hr., 32 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - spoken word
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- 9781974922680
- 1974922685
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The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns, and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. Servants licked the royal family's spoons, tried on their underpants, and tested their chamber pots. Ironically, royals terrified of poison were unknowingly poisoning themselves daily with their cosmetics, medications, and filthy living conditions. Women wore makeup made with mercury and lead. Men rubbed turds on their bald spots. Physicians prescribed mercury enemas, arsenic skin cream, drinks of lead filings, and potions of human fat and skull, fresh from the executioner. The most gorgeous palaces were little better than filthy latrines. Gazing at gorgeous portraits of centuries past, we don't see what lies beneath the royal robes. In The Royal Art of Poison, Eleanor Herman combines her unique access to royal archives with
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Read by Susie Berneis.
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An entertaining work of pop history that traces the use of poison as a political (and cosmetic) tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to today.