kärsiviin
Kärsiviin is a Swedish term for wine that has been deliberately poisoned. The phrase appears in historical Swedish sources from the 18th and 19th centuries and is now largely obsolete. In modern usage it is mainly encountered in discussions of historical crime, toxicology, and forensic history rather than in everyday language about wine.
Historically, kärsiviin is most closely associated with arsenic-based poisons, which could be added to wine with
Detection and regulation evolved over time as toxicology and forensic science advanced. In the 19th and early
See also Arsenic poisoning; Toxicology; Poisoning in literature.