You didn't mention how arsenic was used to produce vivid green coloring for wallpaper in the Victorian era. So many people dropped dead from simply spending time in a room with that type of wallpaper.
There’s a good book on arsenic poisoning in the Victorian era called the Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was poisoned at Home, Work and Play by James C. Whorton, for anyone who’s interested in further reading.
Okay but Tofana is actually a very interesting story, as she sold mainly to women with abusive husbands, as women back then couldn’t just divorce their husband- and she even sold to some men. It’s a shame she was only caught because one of her clients couldn’t go through with it and told her husband of the poisoning. Anyways, she was super cool 😌
While we are on the topic of poisoning I kinda want to learn about that Ancient Chinese Emperor that drank mercury believing that It'll grant him immortality.
I’m so glad that you included the fact that the first antibiotic was derived from arsenic! Very few people know that, it’s a very interesting story! I’d love to see you cover the history of antibiotics in another video!
I think the last high-profile arsenic case was back in the 90s when a woman in Japan poisoned the food at a neighborhood festival resulting in multiple deaths and hospitalizations (obviously).
@@emanimatthews12 Very much so! I remember when it happened but this video brought the memory back and prompted me to actually look up the incident. Her name was Masumi Hayashi, a 37-year-old mother of four who wanted revenge against her neighbors, who shunned her after she was indicted for cheating people through insurance scams. She dumped 1000 grams of arsenic(!!!) into a communal pot of curry and killed the council president and vice-president (I'm guessing she saw the two coming towards the food and seized the opportunity), as well as two unfortunate kids and over sixty people ended up in the hospital. She was also investigated for a few insurance-scam-related poisonings over the previous ten years, including an attempted one against her own husband, who was an exterminator (which explains the arsenic). And to make it even worse, she inspired a bunch of copycat crimes as well.
Her name was Bessie Braddock, and she and Churchill had some memorable parliamentary duels. Another which I recall is: "Mr Churchill, you are drunk!" "And you, Madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I'll be sober!"
It was so easy to come by? Arsenic was in sticky fly papers that used to hang to catch insects into the 20th century. Arsenic was also found in most ant killers an almost everything sold to get rid of mice and rats!! Oh ..the good old days!!
It was based on the stage play. Boris Karloff played Jonathon, but was not able to be in the movie version version because he was still performing it on stage.
I can't remember which year, but in the old days of poisons in general stores a mix up happened. A baker sent his shop boy to buy confectionery sugar and the shop made a mistake. He ended up accidentally poisoning local kids with sweets. They traced where the children had been and figured it out from there.
It happened in Victorian era, in either London or another British city. The product to be bought was something that normally gets mixed into plaster. Sweets confectioners put in into candies, also, to save on the sugar. The chemist was sick and directed his new apprentice towards the "powder in the barrel in the corner of the shop". The apprentice went to the wrong corner, that also had a barrel with powder in it.
It was in Bradford in Yorkshire, England.He used to make the sweets with powdered gypsum to save money as sugar became so expensive.It was known as daff and when he bought it from the pharmacy he was accidently sold arsenic trioxide. He sold the humbugs from a market stall and killed 21 and made over 200 seriously sick.
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Arsenic is found in coal mine tailings. It’s also insoluble. Which makes it particularly nasty when it leaches out into streams. Which it has a tendency to do.
Pretty sure it's burnt almonds, not garlic. And you don't have to throw it into a fire, just an autopsy. Cut open the stomach and you can easily smell it.
Did you know arsenic is also used in a medication used to treat heartworm in a dog and yes it can be deadly to a dog but that's why it's typically only used in young healthy dogs who have a higher probability of surviving the treatment
I have a copy of "The Wise Garden Encyclopedia" from 1970; on page 677 under the topic "Insecticide", there is this precious little tidbit: "Arsenic had long since been known as a potent eradicator of persons, and eventually the thought occurred that it would be worth trying on the insect plagues." LOL!
8:03 You used the infamous photo of Ruth Snyder being executed in 1928 to illustrate Arthur Warren Waite’s execution. That’s weird. So maybe you should do a video on Ruth Snyder and her execution and how that photo came to be taken.
Actually it’s been known to be toxic for thousands of years longer than you think. Fun fact: The very first bronze alloys were actually made with arsenic (instead of tin, which came about in bronze centuries later after trial and error). This came about by the Egyptians mining arsenic-rich copper in the Sinai Peninsula during the twilight of the copper age. However, the toxic properties of arsenic were being realized eventually, and they turned to try other metals instead.
In fact many descriptions of Efestus, the black smith god from the greek pantheon, depict him as deformed or cripple, many attributing it to chronic neuropathies deriving from arsenic poisoning from working early versions of bronze alloy
Well , Used on crops to keep the pests away . *THAT'S WHY* you should Always rinse your fresh fruit and vegetables under a tap of running water ❣ 👨🌾👩🌾🌾☠🦗
“And yeahhhhh…sometimes the butler really did do it!” 😂 weakly weak here…dang it, I just love this narrator and the writers! Hilarious! And the dude’s voice is perfect for the narration - every time I watch a Weird History video I giggle all the way until the end (and yes, even if the subject isn’t a happy or funny one, but I don’t mean any offense by it. It’s the narrator’s voice plus the cheesy play on words etc. in the script)! I know, I know…pretty lame. But still, I don’t care…I love getting the giggles during these! Tee hee!! 🤭 Sorry, didn’t mean to kill “Alexander the VI…OOPSY DAISY!” 🌼
Only in the sitting room darling. Nice comfy study to read in. The green wallpaper and the red was the worst. They were supposed to hide the coal smoke stains. Victorian England was an elegant hell.
I named my cat Cixi after the Empress. This is the first time I've heard the name said properly, I pronounce her name as 'see-see"... I'm going to have to start calling her sushi now lmao
I recall reading a murder mystery in which the culprit was the house's water supply, which had been contaminated because it was next to a cemetery of arsenic-embalmed Civil War soldiers.
Can you do a video about crystals!!! How they get created? why they have been put on this world? who was the first person to find a crystals? is there any magical Crystal Caves in the world. How old are crystals?? I would find that so interesting!!!
Do you know how fucking long that video would be? You’re basically taking as far back as the beginning of the universe as frozen h20 is a crystal. My dear please google the common and scientific definitions of crystals, elements, rocks and stones.
The mouse poison ad at the beginning says "houses, stacks, farm buildings, warehouses, mills, (and something) speedily cleared of rats, mice, beetles, cockroaches, and clocks." What do they mean by clocks? Was there some kind of bug that was referred to as a clock or do they mean that there was a bug that commonly infested clocks? I've never heard of anything like that before in my life.
Arsenic used in farming cotton in particular for so long in USA that it is still heavily in the soil, which is leached into rice grown in those regions that used to be for growing cotton. I was horrified to learn about this.
The Victorians, whom I've decided were all crazy, had very strict ideas about mourning the death of a loved one. Women had to wear proper black clothing and long veils. Interestingly, the exact shade of black considered most appropriate for mourning clothes required the use of arsenic in the dyeing process. So these people in the correct black mourning clothes got a degree of arsenic poisoning from them. They didn't care, since custom dictated how things were to be done. Insane!
So he pretty much told people that it is possible to build up a tolerance to arsenic. Ingesting it with small bits little at a time. I hope there aren’t any crazy people getting any ideas. 😂
If I were a medieval assassin, I would use something a bit more... subtle. Wolfsbane or belladonna were much easier to extract by myself, and could be blown into a room as barely detectable smoke aside from having someone eat it.
Love these posts! Thanks! How about the topic of government experiments on citizens in the usa? For example cadmium sulfide exposure to children in Minnesota..
