1. Buckingham J (2007) Bitter nemesis: the intimate history of strychnine. CRC Press, Boca Ratonhttps://doi.org/10.1201/9781420053166
2. McGarry RC, McGarry P (1999) Please pass the strychnine: the art of victorian pharmacy. Can Med Assoc J 161(12):1556–1558
3. Rosen DM (2008) Dope: a history of performance enhancement in sports from the nineteenth century to today. Praeger, Westport
4. Harris T, Sport (2008) Almost everything you ever wanted to know. Yellow Jersey, London
5. Mallon B, Heijmans J (2011) Historical dictionary of the olympic movement, historical dictionaries of sports, 4th edn. The Scarecrow Press, Plymouth