Chloroform: The Poisoner's Handbook By Deborah Blum
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In Chapter one titled “Chloroform (CHCI3)” of The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum, thieves knew chloroform as poison and as their “job” criminals would use chloroform to make the victims become unconscious and rob them to get money. This molecule relates to the story because criminals use chloroform to make the victims unconscious and some of the causes that chloroform left were darkening in the blood, gathered up to the brain, lungs, kidneys, and liver and clumps of bulbous. “Since the turn of the twentieth century, this practice had been increasingly popular” (Blum 8), more and more thieves would take chloroform to next level by putting it in drinks and chloroforming high class people and robbing valuables. Chloroform is made up of carbon,