In the first episode of Isn't She Fictional our book recommendation is The Lost Apothecary by Sara Penner. For our topic, we are taking a Magic School Bus ride back to 17th-century Italy, the criminal magic underworld, and one of the most notorious slow-acting poisons of the time: Aqua Tofana.

Book link-

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-lost-apothecary-a-novel_sarah-penner/26594046/?resultid=1ab12f9d-f357-45ab-800b-e03d223aa08a#edition=59453629&idiq=52061496

Sources-

Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. by Philip Wexler. Academic Press. 2017

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