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| Medea with poisonous wine of Theseus |
He understands the lay psychology where the employee cafe will be panic when they found that the beverage they'd made cause something wrong with the customer, spontaneously they hold the glass cup to the kitchen to found out what’s wrong in it, curious for expired milk or else, where they have unwittingly destroy the evidence because the fingerprint of the actors that stuck on it could shown that the glass was being held before.
He understands the science of
locations mapping so when he entering the cafe he made quick study about the
place and where the security camera put in with many acts such glancing around
and doing selfie at the bar to learn camera direction and the blind spot of
other cameras at each side to determine the perfect table and perfect spot and
provide some paper bags with its position as a barricade.
He also understood that the most
effective type of poison. The knowledge of victim's favorite drink made him
able to bring cyanide as the most fits poison. Why cyanide? Why not arsenic or
other toxins? It’s because cyanide was the one that effective when placed in a
cold drink.
I think we must also have
knowledge of poisons like that guy had, not because we want to poison someone
but only for precaution…to prevent accident that could harm ourselves as what happened
to the crew of Captain Cook who accidentally eat the poison of puffer fish, or
a writer named Henry Randolph who died because he couldn’t take differences
between poison and quinine.
Especially if you want to write a detective story or novel / horror that involved poison, so please take a read to the following 13 kinds of toxins that I wrote in the article that I made as a series in order to make it easy to read…
Especially if you want to write a detective story or novel / horror that involved poison, so please take a read to the following 13 kinds of toxins that I wrote in the article that I made as a series in order to make it easy to read…
Humans know toxins since 2500 BC,
in those days the Sumerians worshiped a goddess toxin called Gula. In Greek’s
legend there’s also a story about poisoning like the story of Medea, the granddaughter
of Hellios-the sun god-who wanted to kill her stepson, Theseus, with poisonous
wine. In the reign of Roman Empire, poisoning at dinner in the upper-middle
class people becomes commonplace sights, usually to get rid of the family members who they
don’t like, while in the year of 246 BC Chinese develop Chou ritual drama which
doing ritual burning of 5 kinds of toxins.
Entering the year of 8 AC, the
poison thrives because the Arab chemists succeeded in changing arsenic into a
powder that is not tasteless and odorless so as to detect the presence of
toxins was more difficult. At that time the toxins are traded over the counter
so it is easy to come by. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Italian chemist
trying to make the toxins that are more powerful than ever while in the 20th
century various toxins are studied and developed as a weapon.
Here’s some reference of poison I
wrote according to in the order of its deadly performance which you could used
as a material for your works:
- ARSENIC (KING OF POISON)
Arsenic is a
chemical compound with the symbol As with atomic number 33 is the most common
element of the 20th in the Earth's crust. Albertus Magnus is believed to be the
first to find the technique to isolate these elements into a solid compound in
1250. In its elemental form these compounds are not harmful but in the form of
oxide, namely arsenic dioxide, which a white powder and soluble in water it’s
highly toxic…the arsenic compound is 500 times more toxic than the pure.
These substances
can’t be detected easily when its blend in water, food, or kind of thing which
become the most perfect option for a murder weapon. But when arsenic is being
heated it will rapidly oxidized to arsenic oxide, which smelled like garlic. The
difficulties to detect arsenic bring other nickname for this compound as a
Legacy Toxin, where people used it to seize the heritage without having to
worry about leaving a trace.
The symptoms of
acute arsenic poisoning occur in two forms. First, causing severe paralysis
within 1-2 hours and there appears delirious or madness activity. The second
one, there’s digestive disorders such as nausea, headache, severe pain,
vomiting, and diarrhea because arsenic could bring fatal damage for the
digestive system, causing death due to shock. The lethal dose of arsenic for
adult is 70-200 mg or 1 g/kg/day.
In the UK this poison
used to kill pest and rodents so it can be purchased easily at any drug store
there. Arsenic even used as a mascara once when Queen Victoria still in charge
in United Kingdom. Mixing the arsenic with vinegar and lime, the woman at that
time pours the ingredients to their face and skin to have better looks,
becoming more white and clean. But it’s not recommended now. On modern era
arsenic is still used as a pesticide mixture on agricultural industry.
- BOTULLINUM
Botulinum (BTX)
is a neurotoxic protein that produced by Clostridium Botulinum bacterium and its
related species. There are two types of botulinum namely type A and type B.
Botulinum toxin type A and B are used for the treatment of motor neuron syndrome, focal hyperhidrosis, blepharospasm, strabismus,
chronic migraine and bruxism.
The bacterial
infection could lead to potentially fatal disease called botulism. Botulinum
toxin is the most lethal known acute, with a median estimated human lethal dose
(LD50) of 1.3 to 2.1 ng/kg intravenously or intramuscularly and 10-13 ng/kg
when inhaled. By that scale botulinum known as the most powerful toxin, it
could illustrated with one teaspoon of botulinum you could killed 1.2 billion
people.
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| A normal condition of neurosystem |
Botulism poisoning
is usually caused by the penetration of contaminated food or injections into
the body that can damage the nervous system and paralyzes muscles by inhibiting
the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine from the nerve. When these
toxins are in direct contact with the body, the main symptoms are double in
vision, blurred, drooping eyelids, slurred speech, difficult in swallowing, dry
mouth, and muscle weakness. Botulinum also affected the respiratory and
ultimately caused death.
Botulinum turned
out to be used in cosmetic treatments globally. The US Food and Drug
Administration gave a warning for his citizen that this toxin could spread from
injection to other areas of the body, that causing botulism. One that sell in
USA known commercially with the name of Botox, so I suggest you should think
twice if you want to take Botox injections.
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| A neuro system that exposed by botulinum |
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| Botox is using botulinum as ingredient |
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