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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Picture Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Weights and Measures
- Note on Nomenclature
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Some Disadvantages of a Weak Constitution
- Chapter 2. Nuts
- Chapter 3. The Patient Generally Lies on His Back
- Chapter 4. M. Vauquelin's Lack of Fame
- Chapter 5. Perfidious Dutchmen Bark up the Wrong Tree
- Chapter 6. You Will Be Careful as to the Second Article
- Chapter 7. You Hold Him Down, I'll Pour It Down His Throat
- Chapter 8. Overture to the Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Chapter 9. The Fop, the Scotsman and the Opium-Eater
- Chapter 10. It Will Be the Test-Tube and the Retort That Will Hang Him
- Chapter 11. Shaken in Every Possible Way
- Chapter 12. Mrs. Dove's Brush with the Media
- Chapter 13. That Clever Dr. Letheby, So Ugly and Terrific
- Chapter 14. Tigers, Lions, etc.; Six Hundred Kilograms
- Chapter 15. The Blue Anchor Murder and Other Outrages
- Chapter 16. I Didn't Know It Was Used for Poisoning
- Chapter 17. Is There a Faceless Fiend?
- Chapter 18. Another Round of Pay Phone Hysteria
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back cover