|_____________ |_____________ |_____________ |_____________ O////|____________/ O////|____________/ O////|____________/ O////|____________/ | | | | GBIG Bad BARBARIANH 4presents5 POISON A-Z _____________| _____________| _____________| _____________| \____________|\\\\O \____________|\\\\O \____________|\\\\O \____________|\\\\O | | | | Credit: This file is based on the article "The Mystery Reader's Pharmacopoeia" by Rodger J. Winn, M.D.. The article appeared in MURDER INK (Workman Publishing Company, Inc.), an excellent book edited by Dilys Winn (his daughter, maybe, I dunno.) Disclaimer: If you use the information in this file to kill somebody and get caught, and then decide to tell the judge that it was my fault, good. Go ahead. Judges just LOVE losers like you who think that everybody is responsible for your actions except yourself. You tell him that, and he'll probably tack another 10 years to your 60 year jail sentence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMANITA PHALLOIDES (Mushrooms) - This kind of mushroom is distinguishable from its non-lethal, tasty twin AGARICUS CAMPESTRIS by its tiny white scales and warts. You can cook amanita without detoxificating it at all, so it is quite easy to serve this baby up to somebody without arousing suspicion. You've got 12 hours to head down to Mexico before your victim gets hit with relatively mild nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. These won't be too bad for another day or so, when they will become bad enough that he will seek medical assistance. But by then it may be too late, and death by circulatory collapse may have occurred. If not, then in 3 or 4 days his skin will turn yellow from liver deterioration, and how long can you live without a liver? ARSENIC - A classic toxin, sometimes called "inheritance powder", because it's often used by families to snuff out Granny so they can inherit her money before the hospital bills consume it. It is a white, tasteless, odorless powder sold in the form of compounds such as ant paste or weed killer. If the victim is to die quickly, 1 gram of this substance will do the job. In 3 or 4 hours, the victim lays deathly ill, puking and shitting all over the place, and in 1 to 3 days he will die from cirulatory collapse. For a slower, lingering death, feed your victim extremely small doses of arsenic on a daily basis. Gradually, the victim gets weaker, starts losing his hair, his skin roughens and white ridges appear on his nails (Aldrich-Mees lines.) The symptoms then increase to include multiple nerve paralysis, hoarseness and a hacking cough. Numbness and coldness creep up the victims limbs and, over a matter of years, they become completely paralyzed. This method may backfire, because if the doses are too small, the victim's body then has a chance to build up a tolerance to arsenic, and becomes practically immune to the poison. In some cases, a would-be arsenic victim has swallowed arsenic for the first time, and had no effect from it. Rasputin, for example, was naturally immune to arsenic. CARBON MONOXIDE - You Nazis can just skip over this section because you know all about this. Carbon monoxide is a tasteless, odorless gas that attaches itself to the body's hemoglobin to the point that the blood cannot carry oxygen to body cells, and the body simply suffocates. Beginning symptoms are headaches, giddiness, shortness of breath from exertion, and tinitus (ear ringing). The lack of oxygen to the brain then causes a sort of drunken state, which means that even if the victim knows that someone is trying to fuck him over, he's too wasted to do anything about it. Even if the victim doesn't die, amnesia from the oxygen deprivation will prevent him from identifying his assassin. The latter stage of the poisoning is marked by a cherry-red discoloration of the skin, and a breathing disorder called the Cheyne-Stokes pattern sets in. This is a pattern of 30 seconds of no breathing followed by 6 to 8 rapidly increasing deep breaths, and the cycle turns over. After this, there remains only convulsions, unconsciousness, a fever of 108o and then death, usually within 48 hours. If not, then probably between 3 to 8 days later the grim reaper will at last harvest the victim's life. Even if the victim is hardy enough to recover after all this, he will probably turn psychotic! Carbon monoxide can be produced from a number of sources: smoldering coke or charcoal, a low-lit hibachi grill, and of course, an automobile exhaust pipe. CURARE - This is derived from something called CHRONDRODENDRON TOMENTOSUM. Curare works only as an injection, because digestion is supposed to be harmless. I wouldn't take it either way, myself. Curare affects the human body by impairing the communication of nErve impulses to the muscles, causing paralyzation. Within minutes the victim starts coughing a little and his face flushes. The poison works from head to toe, so the eyEs will droop as the first sign of paralysis, followed by the inability to swallow or speak. When the diaphragm is frozen, the lungs can NO longer respirate, and suffocation causes death before any other significant symptoms can occur. Curare is ideal for assassination, because it is extremely hard to detect. However, if it is detected, the victim can be saved by an 1-ampule injection of prostigmin. CYANIDE - Cyanide works by rending oxygen in blood unusable by the body. A person who takes cyanide will have difficulty breathing, but will turn bright pink from an abundance of unused oxygen. Cyanide can be derived from bitter almonds and peach and apricot pits. In fact, cyanide poisoning can be detected by almond-breath, as well as the skin discoloration. The antidote is an amyl nitrite pearl HEROIN - Almost any illegal drug can be used to kill, but heroine is particularly lethal. Heroine is usually cut or diluted with quinine and sugars, but pure heroine is poison. Even a hardened junkie couldn't handle that. If a junkie normally takes a lot of heroine, then cuts back for awhile, a large injection of cut heroine, even a dosage size he's tolerated in the past, will be an overdose. Unconsciousness is instantaneous from a heroine overdose; O.D.'s have often been found with the needle still in their arm. Coma occurs, and breathing slows to about 2 to 3 respirations per minute. The pupils pinpoint, blood pressure plummets causing the skin to grow cold and clammy, and as blood supply to the brain disappears the pupils yawn wide open as death wraps its fingers around the victim. NERVE GAS - This encompasses several poisons, including Tabun, Sarin (T-46), Soman, DFP (DCP), all of which work pretty much the same way. These are typically odorless and colorless, and can be either inhaled or absorbed by the skin. These poisons break down acetylcholine, a neural transmitter to the muscles, which causes hyperexcitability. Symptoms are a runny nose, wheezing, tightness in the chest, salivation, light intolerance, paralysis and death. Atropine is an antidote, but while EARLY Nazi gases took up to 20 minutes to work, newer gases work so quickly that antidote administration is somewhat impractical. STRYCHNINE - This poison is used as for sadism and torture as much as IS FOR murder. Onset time is a mere 15 minutes, at which time the victim is racked with horrendous, muscular convulsions, the kind that pick you up off your feet, and contort your limbs until your bones snap. When the victim's spasms subside, just gently nudge him to set them off again. Death by strychnine poisoning is NOT a nice way to go. THALLIUM - Banned in the United States in 1965, this rat poison may still be available in other parts of the world. Like other poisons, this too is odorless and tasteless, which makes it fine to blend with sugar or salt or any kind of food. This stuff takes awhile to work; 3 to 4 days after consumption is when it takes effect. At first, there is diffuse pain and constipation, dark pigmentation around hair roots, and psychological disturbances. During the second week after consumption, the victim starts losing all body hair (except for eyebrows and pubies), and the skin turns dry and scaly. There are heart palpatations, paralysis and blindness. Death occurs due to pneumonia and lung congestion. Thallium is like arsenic, in that it can be administered slowly, in several small doses over many months. WARFARIN - Another rat poison, but this one is legal here in the U.S.. Its effect on the body is that is interferes with the bloodclotting system. The victim shows signs of bleeding in the form of nosebleeds, gum bleeding, bruises, bloody urine, and bloody stool. There's one problem with warfarin, or benefit, depending on how you look at it. It only effects humans in extremely large doses. But it does mix well with porridge or stew, and multiple doses may be employed. The antidote is large doses of vitamin K. RXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRXRX A doctor's bag contains many substances which are not intended as poison, but can certainly be used for that purpose. Here are a but a few potential medical toxins. AMPHETAMINE - Speeds up metabolism. BARBITURATE - Slows the metabolism. BUBBLE - Yes, a bubble of air. Injected into the bloodstream, a large one can cause a heart attack. CALCIUM - Causes kidney failure, which causes coma, resulting in death. INSULIN - Lowers the level of blood sugar, resulting in convultions and death. OXYGEN - This removes the body's drive to breath. This causes emphysema and results in carbon dioxide narcosis. POTASSIUM - Gradually reduces the heartbeat to about 0 beats per minute. RIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIPRIP Look for my other savage files, especially 22 WAYS TO KILL A MAN WITH YOUR BARE HANDS, MONEY LAUNDERING, and CARD CHEATS. ->><<- ->><<- ->><<- ->><<- ->><<- ->><<- ->><<- ->><<- ->><<- ->><<-