Paracelsus, the father of toxicology, once wrote: " Everything is poison, there is poison in everything.

The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was, but the gun shoots death, and purifies the Earth of the filth of brutals.

If such a publication had appeared in England, I should have been very much inclined to think the good sense and sound judgment of the people would have rejected the article at once as a seditious invective, whose very violence, like an overdose of poison, prevented its effect.

In 5 AD, Wang Mang, then already nearly unlimited in power as the imperial regent and fearful that the 13-year-old Emperor Ping, once grown, would retaliate against him for having slaughtered his uncles in 3 AD, murdered Emperor Ping by poison.

He grew in new directions as a leader, once seemingly drinking poison in an effort to buck up the spirits of Strong Guy, who had been poisoned.

It is believed that the western quoll once occupied 70 percent of Australia, but because of cane toads, predators, habitat destruction and poison baiting, it is now less abundant.

“ By the tons it is coming into this country — the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms ….

All plant parts are poisonous but once the plant is dried, the poison is greatly reduced, although not gone completely.

Otherwise, he engaged in rivalry competitions that once nearly cost him life ; the fanatic supporters of the soprano Luisa Todi, his bitter rival, attempted to poison him in 1791.

At once he removed the Talaputa poison from his ring, closed his eyes and chanted " Kevli pannato Dhammam saranam pavajyami "( I seek refuge in the dharma taught by the kevlins or omniscient ) and swallowed the poison and ended his life.

As someone tries to kill Senthil, once with poison, and another time by pushing a fish tank, a mysterious voice sings in the middle of the night, and Saravanan tries to figure out what's happening.

Men are not able to come near to this foetid sea ... Its waters are like poison and if men swim therein, they die at once.

It was at once rumored that the child had died of poison intended for its mother the Maharani ( elder queen ), and given at the instigation of Bhimsen, or someone of his party.

They will group together on a single host once one is found: the attacking poison headcrab controls the host, while the others use the new host as transportation, having it throw up their eggs ( if female ) at new victims.

Viola is miffed that Charlie compared her to Gertrude ; although Ruby points out that Viola is actually far worse than Gertrude ; as she doesn't ever recall Gertrude trying to poison Viola once.

* The release of a report by the U. S. Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed that the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency had tried twice to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and once to poison Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba, and that it had supplied aid to insurgents who later assassinated South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem and Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo.

But upon arrival, the heroes discover their once beautiful island home has been destroyed and overrun by webs created by spider-like beasts called Visorak, who capture the Toa and poison them, mutating their form into a half-Toa, half-beast state ; Toa Hordika.

In China, this plant is known as Arrow Poison Wood and the poison is said to be so deadly that it has been described as " Seven Up Eight Down Nine No Life " meaning once poisoned a person can take no more than seven steps uphill, eight steps downhill or nine steps on level ground.

When Perse gets into trouble by sending poison pen letters to a number of villagers Clementine Kemble once more takes the initiative.

However, there were at least three ways in which he could be killed: ( a ) If the player dragged a poison trap to British's throne, then detonated it, British was poisoned and slowly lost health until he eventually died.

When the game begins in the Avatar's house, it is possible for the player to cook a loaf of poison bread.

This brings up some of the unique aspects of the game: the character is not omniscient with respect to himself, but has some attributes that stay hidden except in special cases — for example, the player never knew the character's alignment ( good / evil / neutral ), and poison, drunkenness and disease tricked the perceived stats, or temporarily or permanently changed them.

Potions have different effects: rare blue potions, for example, rid the player character of poison and damage.

* Face the Music ( a trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer and finds poison on his mouthpiece ; Borneman also wrote the screenplay for the 1954 British movie adaptation of the same title directed by Terence Fisher, aka The Black Glove in the U. S. A .)

* As each player reaches the starting post after clearing all wickets, he is " poison " and must declare his status to all players.

* A non-poison player can eliminate a poison player by sending the latter through a wicket.

In order to cure poison, the player can use a heal spell, drink slime from outlets, or eat a mushroom ( the only instance where eating a mushroom is beneficial.

To win the game, the player must avoid starvation, dehydration, poison traps, and other dangers.

Like other zombies, it tries to beat its prey to death, but its most dangerous weapon is the extra poison headcrabs it carries, which it can throw at the player.

The only two examples in Half-Life 2 are where the player can enter a house which has been bombed by a headcrab shell during the chapter Highway 17 ( searching the house will reveal several poisonous headcrabs and a poisonous headcrab zombie, but no other types, indicating that the shell contained poison headcrabs ) and in the Route Kanal level, where the player can find multiple pods lying in a fenced area.

In the game, he uses potions that can either poison or burn a player or allow him to teleport.

The cane toad has poison glands behind the eyes

However, the poison is not only of the physical sort: Jade Fox ’ s tutelage of Jen has left Jen spiritually poisoned, which can be seen in the lying, stealing and betrayal Jen commits.

The cane toad has poison glands, and the tadpoles are highly toxic to most animals if ingested.

One such fatal poison is secretly administered by the Harkonnens to Thufir Hawat, the Mentat of House Atreides, in order to keep Hawat's allegiance as the only provider of the antidote ( in the 1984 movie version, it is shown that Hawat has to milk a gruesome captive cat for the antidote every day ).

Because of the presence of these substances, Datura has been used for centuries in some cultures as a poison and as a hallucinogen.

In some parts of Europe and India, Datura has been a popular poison for suicide and murder.

Sally has an internal reason to drink the poison, because she wants to commit suicide.

However, one might say that she has an external reason not to drink the poison because, even though she wants to die, one ought not kill oneself no matter what — regardless of whether one wants to die.

: Suetonius wrote "... for even if he was not the instigator of the emperor's death, he was at least privy to it, as he openly admitted ; for he used afterwards to laud mushrooms, the vehicle in which the poison was administered to Claudius, as " the food of the gods ," as the Greek proverb has it.

Because of its historic popularity as a murder weapon, thallium has gained notoriety as " the poisoner's poison " and " inheritance powder " ( alongside arsenic ).

* A split develops between Theramenes and Critias who has Theramenes killed ( by drinking poison ) on charges of treason.

The Queen also is plotting to murder both Imogen and Cymbeline to secure Cloten's kingship, and to that end has procured what she believes to be deadly poison from the court doctor Cornelius ; Cornelius, however, suspects the Queen's malice and switches the " poison " with a drug that will cause the imbiber's body to mimic death for a while before reviving.

However, it is also possible that this position has not yet been completely overturned, since it was re-asserted in December 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, who accused the mass media of producing " poison " that makes people less sensitive to violence.

The assassination of a British citizen by alleged operatives of the Russian government using Polonium-210, a radioactive poison, as well as the alleged dioxin poisoning of the President of the Ukraine, has raised tensions between Russia and the West, with some commentators in Western nations regarding the poisonings as an indicator of the character and true intentions of the Kremlin.

The death of the deposed and imprisoned king Eric XIV in 1577 is usually said to have come from eating a bowl of poisoned pea soup ; a 20th century investigation of his remains indeed found traces of arsenic, and there is historical evidence that his brother John intended to poison him, but the tradition about the pea soup as a vessel for the poison has been found impossible to confirm.

Fed a poison for which only the Baron has the antidote, Hawat is forced to serve as the new Harkonnen Mentat.

Most commonly, the child god has been bitten by a snake, reflecting the Egyptians ' fear of snakebite and the resulting poison.

The Skull and crossbones ( poison ) | skull and crossbones has long been a standard symbol for poison.

Throughout human history, intentional application of poison has been used as a method of assassination, murder, suicide, and execution.

As a method of execution, poison has been ingested, as the ancient Athenians did ( see Socrates ), inhaled, as with carbon monoxide or hydrogen cyanide ( see gas chamber ), or injected ( see lethal injection ).