The Poison Duel 4#: The Medical Origins of the Poison Duel? September 23, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval, Modern
The earliest nineteenth-century poison duel seems to have been that almost fought in 1821 in Virginia. However, there are pre-nineteenth-century records and strangely they concern doctors. The earliest record anywhere that Beach has been able to dig up was an alleged reference in the Iranian poet Nizami (obit 1209). Nizami in one poem (Treasury of […]
