In Photos: The Power of Poison Through Time

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Detecting Poisons theater

In the former nineteenth century , scientist began to catch up to resourceful poisoner and began applying fresh noesis to helping solve reprehensible cases . visitor will learn about a real - world case from the 1830s , and about the scientific method acting newly usable to vicious investigators , from a unrecorded presenter in the exposition ’s Detecting Poisons theater of operations .

iPad game

Visitors roleplay tec by finding cue about various toxins and poisonous creatures and reviewing dupe ’ symptom to help solve three vex case of inadvertent poisonings . These include the mystic illness of Captain James Cook and two naturalists aboard Cook ’s ship , Resolution , in 1774 . Was it the lead key used to repaint the ship , something they eat on , or arsenic in a taxidermy outfit that cause such rummy symptoms among the three human beings ? Visitors will be able to bring the play home by downloading the game as a free app for iPad .

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