A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie - Kathryn Harkup

Wow, reading about Jean Stas and his method to extract plantbased alkaloids out of human tissue brings back memories.

 

I did the Stas-Otto-Trennungsgang myself in the eight semester of my pharmacy studies. We didn´t analyse human tissue, though. Just plain old mixtures of organic substances.