Poisoner's Handbook Video
Questions

1. What are some symptoms of cyanide poisoning?

2. Describe the state of death investigation in the New York Medical Examiner's office/police department prior to the
hiring of Dr. Norris?

3. What famous hospital became the home of Norris lab?
Bellevue Hospital

4. In what ways did the local government officials (mayor, etc.) try to discourage Norris?

5. Morris believed that Prohibition had become a plague? Why did he refer to Prohibition as a "national experiment in
extermination'?

6. Why was the Standard Oil manufacturing plant referred to as the looney bin?

7. What is illuminating gas? Why was it responsible for more deaths in New York than measles and tuberculosis?

8. Radium was used in painting clock and watch faces because it glowed and make the numbers and hands illuminate
at night. These were worn by servicemen during the war. Women worked in the factories painting these time
pieces during war time. They were known as the radium girls. What effects did these girls experience as a results of
their exposure to radium?

9. What mineral does radium mimic? What effect does this have on the body?

10. Describe New York when the depression hit?

11. What did Prohibition promise that did not happen?

12. Who is Mike the Durable? How did he get this nickname?