Poisoning (Lesson #3: Poison)
Show: Autopsy: Life and Death --> Season: 1 - Season 1
AirDate: 1/18/2006
Runtime: 60
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Overview: When von Hagens and Lee address the subject of poisoning, they are not thinking of a murder mystery. Von Hagens dissects the body of a dialysis patient who died of kidney failure to reveal that we are more likely to die of internal poisoning than by a surreptitious dose of arsenic. Lee explains how the body can be contaminated if critical organs like the kidneys and liver malfunction and fail to filter out poisonous byproducts of metabolism.