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so you want to know more about toxicology well toxicology also called the science of poisons is the study of the harmful effects of substances to living things we normally think of poisons as stuff that can kill or seriously harm us like cyanide or snake venom but toxicology looks at the adverse effects of all substances 500 years ago the German Swiss physician and Alchemist Paracelsus the father of toxicology declared that only the dose is the poison he realized everything could be toxic medicines and even essential chemicals like oxygen and water are harmful if you have too much we often think only man-made chemicals are harmful while natural chemicals are not in reality some of the most well known poisons occur naturally like strychnine from a tree of the same name and botulinum toxin deadly in food but widely used as the cosmetic treatment Botox chemicals make up everything around us air food water clothes and mobile phones a cup of coffee contains more than a thousand different ch