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I AM POISONOUS FOR YOU!
Helga Szabó, MD – Éva Kereszty MD, PhD
aDepartment of Forensic Medicine, University of Szeged
What does poisoning mean? Poisoning means that a material on the body surface or in the living organism leads to a disturbance of the equilibrium of the organism, causing sickness or death. Nowadays, almost every material might be a poison. Poisons could be used by cases of homicide or suicide because they are lethal, discrete and not circumstantial, though in some cases, accident can not be excluded.
In old famous criminal cases, poison was a must. Just take cyanic and arsenic for example. Nowadays, the overdosing of medicaments or that of alcohol lead to dozens of deaths per day.
In my lecture, besides historical background, I would like to come up with some interesting poisoning cases, according to autopsy records of our Institute.