Why Human Toxicology Human Toxicology was formed as a necessity for human survival, the potential for toxicity of agents found in nature needs to be understood, which, depending on their dose, may be harmful to people, animals, plants and other living things. One of...

Toxicology was founded in the 19th century by Mathieu Orfila, a Spanish toxicologist and chemist. He was the first to describe a systematic correlation between the chemical and biological properties of poisons. Toxicology is a science and an art. The science is the...