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Adrenaline Junkie: The Ascent of John Tyndall
- m-i-l 8y agoSee also the earlier review of this book at https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2018/06/19/the-ascent-of-john-tyndall/ https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2018/06/19/the-ascent-of-... . Interesting quote: "One day in December 1893, she [his wife] confused his chloral [sleeping potion] and the magnesia bottles, giving him a magnesia-sized dose of chloral. Within hours he was dead, though not before observing: 'My poor darling, you have killed your John.'"