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George’s Marvellous Toxins
Exploring likely effects of a literary “medicine”
© 2020 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
In their 2020 paper in
The BMJ
, Johnson
and Davies have conducted an exhaustive
toxicological investigation of the
ingredients for George’s Marvellous
Medicine. Information was gathered using
a literature review of the eponymous
book by Roald Dahl, and subsequent
ToxBase queries. The interactive tool
presented here allows you to create your
own mixture of these ingredients, and see
the likely effects on the human body.
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Interactive
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Likely toxic effects
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A note on the artwork
in this graphic
Bathroom
Bedroom
Laundry
room
Kitchen
Shed
Garage
A big thank you to the talented members of BMJ Art Club, for rising to the
challenge of creating the 34 illustrations we needed for this graphic in short order
Achievements
Alliterative alchemist
Use only the 10 ingredients likely to cause a
lactic acidosis (kidney injury, convulsions, or
cardiac toxicity)
DRAFT