Charles Norris through 1920s New York City as they help solve crimes with. Over the course of a decade and a half, Norris and his extraordinarily driven and talented chief toxicologist, Alexander Gettler, would turn forensic chemistry into a formidable science, sending many a murderer to the electric chair, and setting the standards that the rest of the country would ultimately adopt. Follow forensic chemist Alexander Gettler and chief medical examiner Dr. All this changed in 1918, when New York City hired its first scientifically trained medical examiner Charles Norris. While the tools of the murderer’s trade multiplied as the pace of industrial innovation increased, the scientific knowledge (and the political will) to detect and prevent the crimes lagged behind.
But when New York City chose Charles Norris to be its Chief Medical. There was radioactive radium in health tonics, thallium in depilatory creams, morphine in teething medicine, and potassium cyanide in cleaning supplies. At the dawn of the 20th century, poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. In the early 1900s, the average American medicine cabinet was a would-be poisoner’s treasure chest. in which the villains are the poisons and the heroes are Dr. Several women who had worked with paint containing radium experienced.
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“…beautifully captures everything that made the book so special while taking full advantage of the visual medium.”-Christie Wilcox, What observations led Gettler to hypothesize that cyanide poisoning was the cause. “A fascinating look back at how the chemical age changed police work.”-Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
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