INQ 250CH: Chemistry and Crime: Home

Search for your poison in the provided text box. After you pick the proper compound, several resources will come up, including toxicity data and links to search for articles within other resource databases.

You have two options to search. First, click on the link “MedlinePlus: Poisoning, Toxicology, Environmental Health” under Other Resources, then scroll down to see if your poison is within the posted list (a few of them are). Second, you can use the green search box on the right to search for your poison. If you do that, filter the results that come up to include “Free full text” under Text Availability and “Review” under article type.

Type the name of your poison into the search box. Several results are likely to come up, but make sure you choose the correct substance. In each entry, you will find a comprehensive listing of many pieces of information, most of which is very advanced. However, you should be able to obtain some useful information on your poison.

Enter [your poison, e.g. nightshade] in the Search box. NOTE: some articles will be free fulltext, but the majority of articles will require Interlibrary loan, so plan ahead!

An encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals that contains >10,000 monographs. Each monograph is a concise description of a single substance or a small group of closely related compounds. READY Ref. RS 51 .M4 2013