POISON (n. from Latin potio, a drink or draught, via Old French and Middle English) = (1)a substance that causes injury, illness or death, especially by chemical means, when introduced into or absorbed by a living organism, in sufficient quantity.

(2)something destructive or fatal; a harmful influence or principle.

(v.tr.)= (1)to administer POISON to…

(2)to kill or harm with poison.

(3)to put POISON on or into (e.g.arrow)

(4)to infect (air,water,etc)with POISON; contaminate or pollute.

(5)to render land etc. foul and unfit for its purpose, by a noxious application.

(6)to have a harmful influence, or corrupt.

POISON (adj.) or POISONOUS = bane-

ful, deadly, fatal, lethal, mortal, noxious, TOXIC, VENOMOUS, virulent.

POISONED

POISONER

TOXIC (n. from Greek toxicon – poison for arrows) = toxic chemical or other substance.

(adj.)= (1) of, or relating to POISON (e.g. toxic symptoms). (2) POISONOUS (e.g.

toxic gas); (3) caused by POISON (e.g.

toxic anaemia).

TOXICALLY (adv.)

TOXICITY (n.)

TOXICOLOGY (n. from Greek toxicon +

logos) = the study of POISONS, their detection, isolation, identification, nature, and effects on the body, and the treatment of POISONING. May be considered a branch of pharmacology or of forensic medicine.

TOXICOLOGICAL or TOXICOLOGIC

TOXICOLOGICALLY (adv.)

TOXICOLOGIST (n.)

TOXINOLOGY = the specialized area dealing with biological TOXINS.

TOXIN (n.) = a POISON produced by a living organism; often a protein, and often capable of inducing neutralizing antibodies (ANTITOXIN).

EXOTOXIN

ENDOTOXIN

ZOOTOXIN

VENOM (n. from Latin venenum = poison, via Old French and Middle English)

(1)= POISONOUS secretion of an animal, usually transmitted by a bite or sting, for defence or hunting prey.

(2)anything injurious, destructive or fatal.

VENOMOUS (adj.)

VENOMOUSLY (adv.)

VENOMOUSNESS (N.)

ANTIVENOM or ANTIVENIN. (1)

The Toxic Web TOP

A directory of toxicology sites on the internet

ANIMALS DRUGS BOOKS

PLANTS CHEMICALS SEARCH

FUNGI POISONING PHARMACY

ANIMALS inc.bites, stings, venoms. TOP

www.afpmb.org/ ARMED FORCES PEST MANAGEMENT inc.Pics.

. www.arachnology.org/ ARACHNOLOGY HOME PAGE & links

www.arachnoserver.org/ SPIDER TOXINS & SPECIES

www.atheris.ch/ven_data.php VENOM DATABASE CD-ROM

www.austmus.gov.au/spiders/ AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS

www.avru.org/ AUSTRALIAN VENOM RESEARCH UNIT (+links)

http://biology.bangor.ac.uk/%7Ebss166/links.htm VENOMOUS SNAKE LINKS

www.calacademy.org/exhibits/venoms VENOMOUS CREATURES + BIBLIOGRPHY

www.cevap.org.br/ TOXINOLOGY CENTRE, BRAZIL

www.coneshell.net CONE SHELLS

www.dendrobatesworld.com/ - POISON FROGS inc. pictures & links

http://emedicine.com/emerg/ENVIRONMENTAL.htm EMERGENCY MEDICINE-BITES & STINGS #

www.ent.iastate.edu/ ENTOMOLOGY INDEX & IMAGES

www.eol.org/ ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE ( N=z P=e)

www.gastropods.com/Taxon_pages/Group_Cone.shtml CONE SHELLS + pictures

http://grimwade.biochem.unimelb.edu.au/cone CONE SHELLS #

http://hobospider.org/ SPIDERS

www.jcu.edu.au/ AUSTRALIAN FLORA &FAUNA

www.marine-medic.com.au/ JELLYFISH etc.

http://medent.usyd.edu.au/fact/fact.htm MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY FACT SHEET

http://members.tripod.com/~c_kianwee/venom.htm SCORPIONS

www.merck.com/mmpe/ MERCK-BITES & STINGS #

“The coward’s weapon, poison…”

Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650)

(2) English poet

http://netvet.wustl.edu/e-zoo.htm - ELECTRONIC ZOO + Links

http://ntrc.tamuk.edu/ NATURAL TOXINS RESEARCH CENTRE

www.pharmacy.arizona.edu/centers/toxicology VENOMOUS CRITTERS etc.

www.priory.com/med/ophitoxaemia.htm - SNAKEBITE (Indian)

“Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he’ll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.”

(3) Charles Haas

www.reptile-database.org SNAKES inc. pictures

http://scop.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scop/ SNAKE VENOM TOXINS (search 'snake' or 'venom')

www.scorpions.co.za/ SOUTH AFRICAN SCORPIONS – Pics.& Links

www.scuba-doc.com/ ----( MARINE HAZARDS)

“Publicity is like poison; it doesn’t hurt unless you swallow it.”

Joe Paterno (1926-) Football coach(4)

www.snakemuseum.com - CALIFORNIA SERPENTARIUM

www.spiders.com.au/ - SPIDERS

www.t3db.org/ TOXIN & TARGET DATABASE

www.thesnake.org/ - SNAKES inc. most dangerous

“And while the flesh [of the quails] was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.”

Numbers 12: 33 (5)

http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html - TREE OF LIFE

www.toxinology.com/ CLINICAL TOXINOLOGY (inc.CSL antivenom handbook) #

www.toxinology.org/ INT.SOCIETY in TOXINOLOGY

www.venombyte.com/ - U.S. SPECIES & Links

www.venomdoc.com VENOMS & TOXINS #

“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.”

John Keats (1795-1821)

‘Ode to a nightingale’ (6)

www.venomous.com - SNAKES

www.venomousreptiles.org/ 'HOT HERPS' plus Links

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ - NATURAL HISTORY TEXTBOOK

PLANTS inc.alkaloids, herbs. TOP

www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/ CORNELL inc. TOXIC AGENTS #

“There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of the scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.”

Chanakaya (350-275 B.C.) (7)

www.ars-grin.gov/duke/ PHYTOCHEMICAL DATABASE (inc.Poisons)

www.aspca.org/pet-care/poison-control/plants 445 PET POISON PLANTS + video

http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/projects/poison/index.html PENNSYLVANIA + lecture

www.cbif.gc.ca/pls/pp/ CANADA - Poison plant links

“When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it’s a wonder there isn’t more of it done”

Kin Hubbard (1868-1930)

American Humourist (8)

www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/poison/poison.htm NORTH CAROLINA

http://ead.univ-angers.fr/~pharma/bruneton - TOXIC PLANTS bibliography

http://cpharm.vetmed.vt.edu/PoisonPlants/ - SLIDES OF POISON PLANTS

http://emedicine.com/emerg/#TOXICOLOGY.htm PLANTS #

www.giftinfo.uni-mainz.de/ (choose English) PLANTS & MUSHROOMS

“Look not upon the wine when it is red,…..

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.”

Proverbs 23: 31 (9)

www.herbalsafety.utep.edu/ - HERBAL FACT SHEETS (40)

www.landcareresearch.co.nz/ NEW ZEALAND

www.library.illinois.edu/vex/toxic ILLINOIS

http://mic-ro.com/plants/ CONTACT POISON PLANTS

http://museum.gov.ns.ca/poison/ NOVA SCOTIA

“Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you”

Tommy Smithers (10)

www.napralert.org/ NATURAL PRODUCTS (£)

www.pprl.ars.usda.gov/ WESTERN U.S.A. PLANTS & LINKS #

http://res.agr.ca/brd/poisonpl/ CANADA (inc.WWW Poison plant sites)

http://essmextension.tamu.edu/plants/toxics TEXAS

“The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar’s laurel crown”

William Blake (1757-1827)

‘Auguries of innocence’ (11)

www.thepoisongarden.co.uk ALNWICK and BEYOND

http://vet.vet.purdue.edu/toxic INDIANA

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~djw/readme.html BIBLIOGRAPHY & PLANT LIST

www.vth.colostate.edu/poisonous_plants/index.cfm COLORADO

“No Roman ever was able to say ‘I dined last night with the Borgias.”

Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) (12)

FUNGI inc.algae, bacteria, food poisoning, shellfish TOP.

www.agls.uidaho.edu/foodtox FOOD TOXINS LECTURES & SLIDES

“Throw physic to the dogs;I’ll none of it”

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

‘Macbeth’ (13)

www.bigelow.org/hab/ ALGAE

www.bom.hik.se/plankton/hablinks.html MARINE TOXINS & ALGAE (links)

www.chbr.noaa.gov/ ALGAE

“To err is human, but to really foul things up, you need a computer.”

Paul Ehrlich (14)

http://www-cyanosite.bio.purdue.edu/ CYANOBACTERIA

www.cdc.gov/ - CENTER for DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION 

www.epa.gov/gmpo/habpage.html ALGAE (many links)

www.evergreen.edu/mushrooms/phm/ POISONOUS & HALLUCINOGENIC FUNGI

“I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.”

Exodus 7:17-18 (15)

http://fungi.fvlmedia.dk/ FUNGAL PICTURES (3.5k)

www.icrisat.org/aflatoxin AFLATOXINS

www.in2.dk/fungi/ FUNGI IMAGES

www.mushroomjohn.org – MAGIC MUSHROOMS

www.mycolog.com/ FUNGAL IMAGES etc.

www.mycology.cornell.edu/ VIRTUAL LIBRARY, MYCOLOGY

“Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.”

Martin H.Fischer (1879-1962) (16)

www.mykoweb.com/ FUNGI - /TFWNA – Toxic Fungi N.America

www.rogersmushrooms.com FUNGI (inc.photos & keys, poisoning) #

www.shroomery.org/ PSILOCYBE

www.textbookofbacteriology.net/ - TODAR’S ONLINE TEXTBOOK…

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html MUSHROOMS, FOOD POISON., CIGUATERA

www..whoi.edu/redtide/ HARMFUL ALGAE

“There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.”

Paul Goodman (1911-1972) Writer (17)

DRUGS inc.adverse reactions, misuse. TOP

www.april.org.uk - ADVERSE PSYCHIATRIC REACTIONS INFO.LINK

www.bnf.org/ BRITISH NATIONAL FORMULARY

www.centerwatch.com/ - CLINICAL TRIALS – F.D.A. approvals etc

“Gold is worse poison to a man’s soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug.”

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) (18)

www.choiceandmedication.org.uk MENTAL HEALTH inc. Drug ADR’s

www.dimdi.de/ - DRUGS & DEVICES (German – reg.).

www.dh.gov.uk/greenbook - VACCINES inc. adverse effects

www.dignityindying.org.uk VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA SOC.

“All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.”

Paracelsus (1493-1541) (19)

www.druginfozone.org - inc. News, Links, Interactions, etc.

www.drugscope.org.uk/ DRUG MISUSE (formerly ISSDN)

www.ecstasy.org ECSTASY (inc. books; links)

www.emims.net MIMS (register)

“For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of conception until death.” Rachel Carson ‘Silent Spring’ 1962 (20)

www.erowid.org/ VAULTS of EROWID (drug misuse; plants, etc) #

www.farad.org - FOOD ANIMAL RESIDUE AVOIDANCE DATABASE

www.fda.gov/medwatch/index.html FOOD & DRUG ADMIN. (recalls & ADR'S)

www.idispharma.com - 17K MEDICINES ONLINE + Education

www.immunisation.nhs.uk - VACCINES

www.maps.org/wwwpb/ PSYCHEDELIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

“As cruel a weapon as the caveman’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.”

Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

‘Silent Spring’

www.medicines.org.uk/emc MEDICINES COMPENDIUM #

www.mhra.gov.uk/ MEDICINES CONTROL AGENCY (inc.drug alerts, CSM, Current Problems)

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed PUBMED (Medline, structures, alerts) #

www.neurosoup.com/ ENTHEOGENS

“The chemicals to which life is asked to make its adjustment are no longer merely the calcium and silica and copper and all the rest of the minerals washed out of the rocks and carried in rivers to the sea; they are the synthetic creatures of of man’s inventive mind, brewed in his laboratories, and having no counterparts in nature.”

Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

‘Silent Spring’

www.nih.gov NATIONAL INSTITUTES of HEALTH (clinical alerts)

www.noahcompendium.co.uk/ ANIMAL MEDICINES DATASHEETS

www.npc.co.uk/ - NATIONAL PRESCRIBING CENTRE inc. Merec

www.npsa.nhs.uk/ NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY AGENCY

www.opioids.com/chemical/index.html DRUG MISUSE

www.pharmgkb.org PHARMACOGENETICS

www.stainblue.com MAGIC MUSHROOMS

www.worstpills.org/ - ADVERSE DRUG INFO. from PublIc Citizen U.S.

“In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of the of the plague, pestilence and famine.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

‘Man and Superman’

www.yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/ YELLOW CARD REPORTING & drug prints

CHEMICALS inc.warfare, pollution, pesticides TOP

www.3dchem.com/ - Molecule of Month + 3D drugs & Periodic table etc.

www.agius.com/hew - OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/ NAT. AGRICULTURE LIBRARY

www.alanwood.net/pesticides PESTICIDE COMMON NAMES & ISO

“Books are extensions of our brains, giving us a collective memory far more powerful than any one person can have. Computers are even more profound brain extensions than books. They can store information far more densely….

What’s more, computers are the first tools that can process information in the same basic ways a brain can, perceiving, analysing, planning…Since the 1970’s the world’s computers have begun joining together, as the World Wide Web has spread like a mesh of fungal threads…encircling Earth. We have surrounded ourselves with a global brain, which taps into our own brains, an intellectual forest dependent on a hidden fungal network.”

Zimmer (2002)

‘Evolution; the triumph of an idea’

www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ AGENCY TOXIC SUBSTANCES & DISEASE REGISTRY

www.belleonline.com BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS LOW LEVEL EXPOSURE + Newsletter

www.beyondpesticides.org/gateway PESTICIDES

www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm MOLECULE of MONTH #

www.cbwinfo.com/ CB WARFARE

www.ccohs.ca/ CANADA OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH inc. Databases & Links

www.cdc.gov/ DISEASE CONTROL inc./NIOSH databases & Environmental health /NCEH

http://cfpub.epa.gov/ecotox/ - ECOTOX(ICOLOGY) DATABASES

www.chemdex.org CHEMISTRY DIRECTORY

www.chemfinder.com/ CHEMICALS by C.A.S., formula, etc.

www.chemsoc.org/viselements - PERIODIC TABLE + Alchemy

www.chem.unep.ch/chemicals - U.N.ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME inc. IRPTC

http://www.chemweb.com/ CHEMWEB

www.coeh.man.ac.uk/ - OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH + links

“Arsenic is indelible, indestructible; in whatsoever way it is absorbed it will be found again in the body of the victim from the moment when it has been taken in sufficient quantity to cause death.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)

‘The Count of Monte Cristo’

www.commonchemistry.org/ 7.8K CHEMICALS (+ structures, synonyms, RN)

www.corrosion-doctors.org/ TOXIC ELEMENTS

www.dartmouth.edu/~toxmetal - TOXIC METALS #

http://database.healthandenvironment.org/ ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASES

www.dioxinfacts.org DIOXIN

http://esis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ EUROPEAN CHEMICAL INFO.SYSTEM

www.epa.gov ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY + Integrated Risk Info. /IRIS

“Apparently, my body is home to toxic chemicals used to make insecticides, electrical cables, fluorescent lamps, and even automobile engine oil, despite the fact that I tasked my husband with handling the car oil years ago.”

Louise Slaughter (1929-) U.S.

Politician

www.eurotox.com - EUROTOX inc. Links

www.expasy.ch/ - PROTEOMICS SERVER & Metabolic Pathways #

http://extoxnet.orst.edu/ EXTOXNET (pesticides)

www.fda.gov/ FOOD & DRUG ADMINISTRATION inc.food additives

www.greenpeace.org/~toxics/ - GREENPEACE

http://hazard.com/msds MANUFACTURERS & LINKS

www.haz-map.com TOXIC CHEMICALS & OCC.DISEASE

“Getting information off the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”

Mitchell Kapor

www.hpa.org.uk/ HEALTH PROTECTION AGENCY inc.Chemical Hazards

http://hpd.nlm.nih.gov/ HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS

www.hse.gov.uk/ - HEALTH & SAFETY EXEC. Inc. links, COSHH, Asbestos

www.iarc.fr/ - INT.AGENCY RESEARCH on CANCER

GAS!GAS! Quick,boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling,

Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,

But someone still was yelling out and stumbling

And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.-

Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,

As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight

He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace

Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,

His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin,

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-

My friend you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie: Dulce et Decorum est

Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

www.ilo.org/public/english - INT.OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH INFO.CENTRE

www.ilpi.com/msds 85 MSDS SOURCES (>MSDSONLINE)

www.inchem.org/pages/search SAFETY INFO. On CHEMICALS

www.insilicofirst.com COMPUTATIONAL TOXICOLOGY

www.internetchemistry.com CHEMISTRY LIBRARY

www.intox.org POISON CENTRES (Worldwide)

www.msdssearch.com/ 1m. MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETS (& news)

www.nbc-links.com/ N.B.C.WARFARE

www.noblis.org/ CHEMICAL WARFARE etc.

http://npic.orst.edu/ PESTICIDE INFO. CENTER

www.nsc.org - NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL inc. Environment /ehc.htm

www.oecd.org/ehs - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY

www.osha.gov/ OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH ADMINISTRATION + Links

www.osh.net/ OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH GATEWAY

www.oshweb.com/ OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH + Links

www.panna.org/ PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK

“Cocaine habit forming? Of course not. I ought to know, I’ve been using it for years.”

Tallulah Bankhead

www.pesticides.gov.uk/ PESTICIDE SAFETY (inc. banned)

www.pesticideinfo.org/ - PESTICIDE DATABASE

http://rais.ornl.gov/ RISK ASSESSMENT INFO.SYSTEM

www.riskworld.com - RISKWORLD inc. News

“She proceeds to dip her little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt this mixture at all her friends.”

Harold Nicholson (1886-1968) British

Diplomat (30)

http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemical.html N.L.M. CHEMICAL INFORMATION PAGE #

www.iubmb-Nicholson.org/ METABOLIC MAPS

www.tera.org/iter TOXICOLOGY EXCELLENCE for RISK ASSESSMENT + link library

www.thehammer.org INSTITUTES FOR HEALTH SCIENCES

http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/erd/ - HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL DATABASE – 2.6K

www.vnh.org/ NAVAL HOSP. Inc. C.B.warfare

“Medicines are only fit for old people.”

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

www.warr.com/links.html COMPUATIONAL CHEMISTRY

www.webelements.com/ PERIODIC TABLE

www.who.int/pcs/ INTN.PROGRAM in CHEMICAL SAFETY + Links

www.worldwildlife.org/toxics - WILDLIFE - pollutants, pesticides, endocrine

“Alone in the hissing laboratory of his wishes, Mr.Pugh mixes among bad vats and jeroboams, tiptoes through spinneys of murdering herbs, agony dancing in his crucibles, and mixes especially for Mrs.Pugh a venomous porridge unknown to toxicologists which will scald and viper through her until her ears fall off like figs, her toes grow big and black as balloons, and steam comes screaming out of her navel.”

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

‘Under Milk Wood’

POISONING inc.clinical, forensic, historical TOP

www.abarbour.net FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY + LINKS

http://actox.org AMERICAN COLLEGE of TOXICOLOGY + Links

http://acmt.net/ - inc. Toxicology in the News, Links, and Journal

http://adam.about.com/encyclopedia/poisidxa.htm - POISONS A-Z

www.answers.com/poison - POISON DEFINITIONS etc.

www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/tox.html HARDIN METADIRECTORY

www.asmalldoseof.org/ - TOXICOLOGY #

“Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

‘Society and Solitude’

http://emedicine.com/emerg/TOXICOLOGY.htm CHEMICALS, PLANTS & DRUGS

www.epa.gov/ncct/dsstox STRUCTURE SEARCHABLE TOXICITY DATABASES

www.eurotox.com/ EUROPEAN TOXICOLOGISTS + Links

www.euthanasia.cc - EXIT Society + Links

www.food.gov.uk - FOOD STANDARDS AUTHORITY

“It takes just a little poison to spoil all the milk”

Indonesian proverb, quoted in National

Geographic October 2009

www.gifte.de/index.htm POISONS (German + links) #

www.giftinfo.uni-mainz.de/ MAINZ P.C. -drugs,fungi,plants,links

www.hpa.org.uk/ HEALTH PROTECTION AGENCY (inc. poisons & chemicals)

www.hypertox.com TOXICOLOGY programs

www.ivis.org/advances/Beasley INT.VETERINARY INFO.SERVICE N=e-mail ; P=e….

“Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.”

Matthew Prior (1664-1721) Poet

www.ltg.uk.net/ LONDON TOXICOLOGY GROUP

www.meb.uni-bonn.de/giftzentrale/index.html BONN P.C. (--English; inc.fungi, plants)

www.medtox.org.uk/ MEDICAL TOXICOLOGY UNIT + links

www.mic.stacken.kth.se/Diseases/. KAROLINSKA (+ links to p.resources) #

Lady Astor: “Winston, if I were your wife, I’d put poison in your coffee.”

Churchill: “Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.”

www.merck.com/mmpe/sec21.html DRUGS & CHEMICALS #

www.merckvetmanual.com/ VETERINARY MANUAL inc. Toxicology

www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/poisoning.html POISONING + links

www.npis.org/CACT.htm CURRENT AWARENESS CLIN.TOXICOLOGY

www.physpharm.fmd.uwo.ca/www/resource.html PHARMTOX (P&T resources)

www.poison.org/ WASHINGTON P.C.-links,pearls,plants

http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/envirohealthlinks.html N.L.M. (Toxicology Links)

www.thepoisonreview.com - THE POISON REVIEW ##

On learning that coffee was considered to be a slow poison….”.I think that it must be so for I have been drinking it for 65 years and I am not dead yet.”

Voltaire (1694-1778)

French Philosopher

www.topix.net/med/toxicology TOXICOLOGY NEWS

www.toxbase.org TOXBASE (register) #

www.toxi.ch/eng/ ZURICH P.C. (Pubmed, Egora, Links)

“…what is food for one can be bitter poison for others. ….hellebore is a dire poison to us, but it fattens goats and quails”

Lucretius – De rerum natura

www.toxicology.org/ SOC. OF TOXICOLOGY

www.toxindex.com TOXICOLOGY PORTAL

www.toxinfo.org/ MUNICH P.C. (INC.ANIMALS & FUNGI)

http://www.toxinology.org/ INT.SOCIETY in TOXINOLOGY

www.toxinz.com N.Z.POISON DATABASE (first-aid is free) #

“She had never forgotten that,if you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’, it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.”

Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland

www.toxipedia.org/ inc. TOXICOLOGY HISTORY & MITHRIDATE MAG.

www.toxlab.co.uk/ BIRMINGHAM TOXICOLOGY LAB

http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/ TOXNET (8 files) #

www.uic.edu/com/er/toxikon/ CASES & DISCUSSIONS etc

“Books boot instantly, and have a very high contrast/high resolution display; they offer fast random access to any page, with instant visuals and tactile feedback; they are easily annotated with no need for batteries or maintenance; finally, they are robustly packaged. By contrast, the laptop meets none of these specifications…the only disadvantage of books is that they convey static information, whilst computers give changing information.”

Neil Gershenfeld ‘When things start to think’ (40)

www.wikitox.org TOXICOLOGY CURRICULUM etc.

BOOKS inc.shops, libraries, journals TOP

www.abebooks.co.uk U.K.BOOKDEALERS #

www.abebooks.com U.S. BOOKDEALERS

www.ama-assn.org/ J.A.M.A.

www.amazon.co.uk AMAZON U.K. #

www.amazon.com AMAZON BOOKSHOP

www.biomedcentral.com/ - BIOMED – Open Access Journals

www.bl.uk BRITISH LIBRARY (inc.catalogues)

“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

‘Five orange pips’

www.bmj.com BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL

www.bookbrain.co.uk - BOOK PRICES

www.booksinprint.com/bip/ - BOWKER BOOKS IN PRINT (Global)

http://bubl.ac.uk/ BUBL for libraries, links, databases

http://catalog.loc.gov/ L.O.C.catalogue

www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk CHEMIST & DRUGGIST

www.clik-books.com BOOKS FOR SALE

http://direct.bl.uk/ -BRITISH LIBRARY DIRECT – search 9m articles

“No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist

Wolf’s-bane, tight rooted, for its

poisonous wine.”

John Keats (1795-1821)

‘Ode on melancholy’

www.lcweb.loc.gov LIBRARY of CONGRESS (keyword or number)

www.librarything.com SOCIAL BOOK CATALOGUE N= z.. P= e..

http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/ - WELLCOME MEDICAL LIBRARY

www.nature.com NATURE inc. science update daily

www.nejm.org NEW ENG.JOURNAL MEDICINE

“And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”

Ecclesiastes 12: 12

www.nhbs.co.uk NATURAL HISTORY BOOKSHOP

http://olib.rpsgb.org.uk/ - PHARM.SOC. LIBRARY CATALOGUE – Own account P.=

www.pjonline.com PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL

http://search.loc.gov/ L.O.C.search

“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometime give it.”

Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.)

www.thelancet.com/ THE LANCET

www.ukbookworld.com BOOKS FOR SALE

http://vlib.org/ WWW VIRTUAL LIBRARY

“You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.”

Flip Wilson, 1971

(or the search engine)

www.vlib.org.uk/ VIRTUAL LIBRARY (mirror site)

SEARCH inc.engines, directories TOP

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”

Samuel Johnson, 1744

www.a9.com - AMAZON SEARCH ENGINE – inc. images ‘poison’ 2.3m

www.altavista.com ALTAVISTA (search engine)

http://uk.ask.com/ SEARCH ENGINE

http://clusty.com/ CLUSTERING SEARCH ENGINE

“Using a browser is not the same as ‘productively navigating the Web’. Even the non-linear, videogame generation becomes quickly frustrated and stymied…the Web is not a library…A library contains comprehensive collections of information resources. While the Web contains collections, there is no guarantee of comprehensiveness, of systematically covering the human record. A library is a purposely and purposefully constructed organization: but, by design, the same cannot be said of the Web”

Solloway & Wallace - 1997

www.dogpile.com DOGPILE (metasearch)

http://en.wikipedia.org/ WIKIPEDIA ENCYCLOPEDIA

www.exalead.co.uk French SEARCH ENGINE 4 bn. pages

www.gigablast.com/ SEARCH ENGINE 640M pages

www.google.co..uk GOOGLE (search engine) #

www.healthnet.co.uk HEALTHNET (health directory)

www.intute.ac.uk/resources.html INTUTE (WEB RESOURCES inc.OMNI)

www.ixquick.com METASEARCH ENGINE #

www.kartoo.com/ KNOWHOW Search Engine

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Arthur C.Clarke,Profiles of the future,1962

www.ipl.org/ LIBRARIAN'S INDEX to INTERNET

www.mamma.com/ METASEARCH inc.Health

www.metacrawler.com METACRAWLER (metasearch)

www.mrsapo.com/ MULTISEARCH

“Books, after all, seem wonderful acts of evolved design, which have barely changed in shape or size during the past three centuries, and for good reason. Books generally depend on a line of some four or five inches long, a convenient length for the human size of skull, since it means the eye can scan from left to right without the neck moving. Try reading text only a little wider, say eight or nine inches, and you will literally feel the difference. But book design needs clean, white paper of relatively high quality and a relatively small area to be easily readable. Again, if you doubt this, try reading one of those very cheaply produced modern classics editions on greyish paper with an unusually small type size. It is just more tiring.”

Andrew Marr – 2004 – ‘My Trade’

http://news.google.com NEWS AGGREGATOR

http://news.yahoo.com NEWS AGGREGATOR

www.oaister.org/ OPEN ARCHIVES DEEP WEB SEARCH

http://pubcrawler.gen.tcd.ie/ PUBCRAWLER (G.P. directory & search)

http://pubmed.hakia.com PUBMED SEMANTIC SEARCH

www.refdesk.com REFERENCE DESK (facts directory)

www.science.gov/ CLUSTERING FEDERATED SEARCH (55 databases)

www.scirus.com SCIENCE SEARCH #

www.search.com SEARCH (500+ engines)

www.searchmedica.co.uk/ G.P. SEARCH ENGINE (register)

http://toxseek.nlm.nih.gov/ - METASEARCH (discount. 23/3/2012)

www.webfetchpro.co.uk METASEARCH ENGINE

www.yahoo.com YAHOO (search directory)

“I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

PHARMACY inc. health, medicine TOP

http://besthealth.bmj.com - from B.M.J.for laymen

www.bnf.org/bnf N.H.S. etc. links

https://www.cas.dh.gov.uk/ CENTRAL ALERTING SYSTEM of NHS

www.cks.nhs.uk/ CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE SUMMARIES (Prodigy)

“A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.”

Voltaire (1694-1778)

www.cnn.com CNN NEWS inc. Science & Health

www.cochrane.org/ - COCHRANE COLLABORATION – Reviews etc

www.dh.gov.uk/ - DEPT. OF HEALTH – Publications etc.

www.ebi.ac.uk BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE inc.UNIPROT /chebi Biological chemicals

“There are old mushroom hunters, and bold mushroom hunters, but no old, bold mushroom hunters.”

Anon.

www.freece.com/ ONLINE HEALTH EDUCATION (U.S.) (Register)

www.healthnet.co.uk HEALTHNET (Portal)

www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/ OMNI (Directory) inc. MeSH headings

www.library.nhs.uk NAT.ELECTRONIC LIBRARY for HEALTH + Links #

www.martindalecenter.com/Pharmacy.html PHARMACY & TOXICOLOGY DIRECTORY

“The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila.”

Mitch Ratcliffe - Journalist

www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier BANDOLEIR – E.B.M. & Pain site

www.medicines.org.uk/emc - MEDICINES COMPENDIUM etc..

www.mednets.com/ MEDICAL SEARCH ENGINE & PORTAL

www.medscape.com/ MEDSCAPE

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov BIOTECHNOLOGY INFORMATION /entrez – Search Engine

http://news.bbc.co.uk/ B.B.C. NEWS inc.Science & Health

“Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance, given with different intents.”

Peter Mere Latham, physician (1789-1875)

www.nice.org.uk/ NAT.INST.CLINICAL EXCELLENCE inc.guidelines

www.npa.co.uk NATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION

www.npc.co.uk/ NATIONAL PRESCRIBING CENTRE + MEREC & links

www.pharmacist.com/ - inc. NEW DRUGS

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”

Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997) French

Ecologist

www.pharmacy.org/ - WWW VIRTUAL LIBRARY inc.Journals, Databases, Links

www.pjonline.com/ - PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL + Links etc.

www.rcsb.org/pdb PROTEIN DATA BANK

www.reutershealth.com/ MEDICAL NEWS

“This fact, that lead poisoning is brought about far more rapidly and intensely by the breathing of lead-laden air than by the swallowing of lead, is of the greatest practical importance.”

Alice Hamilton (1869-1970) U.S.

Scientist

www.rpsgb.org.uk/ ROYAL PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GT.BRITAIN

www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/sections/ir/links E.B.M. GUIDANCE etc.

www.sign.ac.uk/ MEDICAL GUIDELINES

www.telemedicine.org - DERMATOLOGY inc. textbook & phytophotodermatitis

www.tripdatabase.com/ MEDICAL DATABASE (Five free/week)

www.ukmi.nhs.uk/ DRUG INFO. CENTRES + Guidelines, Links, etc.

“You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.”

Clive Anderson (1952-) Entertainer

www.wisdomnet.co.uk N.H.S. TRAINING (inc. E.B.M.)

SEND E-MAILS TO zingiber@zingiber.karoo.co.uk WITH COMMENTS OR SUGGESTED ADDITIONS TOP

“But no one has ever been able to tame the tongue. It is evil and uncontrollable, full of deadly poison.” Letter of James ch.3, verse 8

‘Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison’ Buddha

‘The rules of Gaia are that organisms that adversely affect their environment do not survive long. We humans would do well to remember this.’

James Lovelock – 2005

‘Gaia;medicine for an ailing planet’

“I cannot see her tonight,

I have to give her up

So I will eat fugu.”

Haiku by Yosa Buson

(1716-1783)

‘Books have remained consistently lovable for several hundred years now. For readers, a wall lined with books is as attractive as any art we could afford to put up there. The advantages of the iLiad and the Kindle [e-books], that you can take vast numbers of books away with you – are of no interest to the average book-buyer. Nick Hornby – 2008 - Journalist

“There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than these poor compounds that thou mayest not sell.”

Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet

Many imagine that plant life has somehow evolved so as to be our perfect food. It is surprising how few seem aware that plants dislike being eaten and will go to extraordinary lengths to deter [garlic], disable [capers] or even kill [castor seed, yew] any animal or invertebrate trying to eat them.

Modern media is less reliable for long-term storage than is the spoken word. It needs the support of a high technology that we cannot take for granted [in a global catastrophe]. What we need is a book written on durable paper with long-lasting print.

James Lovelock (2006)’The revenge of Gaia’

“Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.”

Michel de Montaigne

“All mushrooms can be eaten, but some only once”

Quoted by R.Bevan-Jones (2009) in his

‘Poisonous plants;a cultural and social history’

as a widespread European maxim.

“Anyone can become a toxicologist in two easy lessons, each of which takes ten years.”

Attributed to A.J.Lehman (1900-1979) an

F.D.A. Regulatory Toxicologist

‘Anyone can commit a murder but it takes an artist to commit a suicide’

slogan of the KGB assassination squad, quoted by Norman Baker MP in his book (2007) ‘The strange death of David Kelly’

“a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to the lungs,and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse.”

King James I (1604)

‘Counterblaste to tobacco’

‘Obsession is the price for perfection’

Warren Buffett (2009) ‘Management secrets’

“Consider the book. It has extraordinary staying power. It has proven to be a marvellous machine – great for packaging information, convenient to thumb through, comfortable to curl up with, superb for storage, and remarkably resistant to damage. It does not need to be downloaded, accessed or booted, plugged into circuits, or extracted from webs. Its design makes it a delight to the eye. Its shape makes it a pleasure to hold in the hand. And its handiness has made it the basic tool of learning for thousands of years.”

“…the codex is superior in some ways to the computer. You can leaf through it, annotate it, take it to bed, and store it conveniently on a shelf.”

“Nothing preserves texts better than ink imbedded in paper, especially paper manufactured before the nineteenth century, except texts written in parchment or engraved in stone. The best preservation system ever invented was the old-fashioned, pre-modern book.”

Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library, in ‘The Case for Books’ (2009)

“Of all forms by which human nature may be overcome, the most detestable is that of poison, because it can of all others be the least prevented by manhood or forethought.”

Mr.Justice Avory (1924)

‘Fie on these dealers in poison, say I; can they not keep to the old honest way of cutting throats, without introducing such abominable innovations from Italy?’ De Quincey (1827)

‘On murder as one of the fine arts’

“Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it’s more likely to be female.”

Desmond Morris

“Expect poison from the

standing water.”

William Blake

“I wish I could think of just one nice thing I could tell you about Hull. Oh yes…it’s very nice and flat for cycling.”

Philip Larkin

Poet and University of Hull librarian

“The most technologically efficient machine

that man ever invented is the book.”

Northrop Frye

“Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify”

Ambrose Bierce