About this episode

This episode explores an animal that can inflict pain and toxicity without physical contact, and its historical uses as an aphrodisiac and in murder cases.

An animal that poisons without biting or stinging. An infamous aphrodisiac behind centuries of terrible decisions. And a blistering substance used as a murder weapon. Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision. An interactive forensic toxicology case involving animal-derived exposure, severe skin and urinary-tract injury, internal burns, gastrointestinal symptoms, kidney damage, and a long history of malicious poisoning. Send us Fan Mail

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Host: Dr. JP

Topics covered

• animal toxicity
• aphrodisiacs
• pain
• murder
• science

Keywords

• animal toxicity
• aphrodisiac
• pain
• murder
• science

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