Final: poisoners handbook

Question 1

____ Americans died of poisoning

Answer 1

997

Question 2

The Jackson case

Answer 2

marked a new era in forensiccriminal investigations/ science

Question 3

Dr.Charles Norris

Answer 3

Was first appointed medical examiner to look at suspicious deaths and find the real answers

Question 4

Alexander Geller

Answer 4

Was in charge of the first toxicology lab of its kind

Question 5

First toxin suspected in Jackson case?

Answer 5

Cyanide, but nothing was in stomach lining.

Question 6

If not through ingestion, Geller realized it must have been through _____

Answer 6

inhalation- hydrogen cyanide

Question 7

Jackson case pushed Geller to write a paper on ___ that is still cited today

Answer 7

cyanide

Question 8

Loony Gas factory, New Jersey 1941

Answer 8

Tetraethyl Gasoline( Leaded Gasoline) caused hallucinations and insanity

Question 9

Norris has no doubt it was led poisoning

• Utilized ____ tissue first, which was full of lead
• Compared solution colouration(red) with references
• Geller had to find the passage of the Lead through the body so every test was repeated on all parts of the body
• The men had been affected by _____ lead poisoning

Answer 9

brain

cronic

Question 10

1927 New Jersey

• Radium: Used to make things _____(military watches)
• Used to _____ tumors
• Took affect after months and years
• Bones still glowed __ years later
• Over ____ died
• Radium masks itself as ____

Answer 10

Luminus
shrink
5
100
Calcium

Question 11

Geller estimated he had examined over _______ bodies

Answer 11

100,000

Question 12

This started the idea that a partnership between government and health agencies could work together to protect society: _____ and _____ Agency

Answer 12

Food and Drug