Friday 8 July 2016

The Man-Made Gut Stones Once Used To Thwart Assassination Attempts

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Poisoning used to be a much more effective method of doing away with your enemies, thanks largely in part to the ineffectiveness of historical antidotes and medicine. One fabled poison cure was the bezoar, a hardened spherical deposit of indigestible material.

For hundreds of years, bezoars were believed to be able to render any and all poison inert. And when you couldn't get your hands on a naturally occurring bezoar, you could, for the right price, opt for an artificially created bezoar known as a Goa Stone.

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