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To: cosmicforce who wrote (3483)	10/20/2001 10:33:52 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51709

The Queen of Poison ~ Poison became a universal weapon, available to almost anyone, after the invention in Palermo in the 1650s of “acqua toffana” — the queen of poisons, named after Signora Teofania di Adamo and her daughter Julia. La Toffana devised for her husband a compound of white arsenic, antimony and lead oxide which was soluble in cold water, more so in hot, imperceptible to the taste but most dangerous as a powder; she was credited in her lifetime with the deaths of more than 600 people in Rome and Naples, including two Popes; she also poisoned the entire water supply of Rome before the King of Naples finally sent his troops into the convent where she took refuge and had her strangled. thetimes.co.uk