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Re:Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When Pope C... by JohnJamesRambo on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:17PM (#25799982)
I can't make heads or tails of this. The poison was -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudaconitine from the Monkshood.

But what was in Caravita's Oil and did it even work or was it just chance that the prisoner lived? Google isn't much help as it all leads back to this same book.

Re:Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When Pope C... by woadwarrior01 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @05:41AM (#25801439)
Most likely, an early instance of snake oil.