How One of My Favorite Childhood Literary Heroines Poisoned a Child
Anne of Green Gables is a children’s classic and deservedly so. In one dramatic scene its heroine, Anne Shirley, uses ipecac to save a dying child. Here’s what ipecac would actually have done, and why it fell out of favor. Anne Shirley, the orphan girl taken in by a couple of curmudgeonly old siblings, has…
