date:Oct 11, 2012
A French maid, a promiscuous husband, and an angry wife -- the first arsenic poisoning patient that Dr. Michael Harbut saw in his Michigan practice was, in his words, the victim of a classic love triangle.
But that's the exception rather than the rule, said Harbut, chief of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the Wayne State University School of Medicine.
While arsenic has been famously slipped into the food or drink of unsuspecting spouses and royalty for centuries, tod