What to do in cases of poisoning / by William Murrell.

  • William Murrell
Date:
1897
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Credit: What to do in cases of poisoning / by William Murrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    moment, took 300 grains of chloral and threw the bottle under the grate. (For hint as to mode in which death by suicide may be made to simulate death from natural causes see death of Gammon, in Warren’s “Ten Thou- sand a Year.”) Do not forget the possibility of a number of poisons having been taken together In one case a patient adopted a curious combination —a packet of Battle’s Vermin Killer, two drachms of laudanum, and then half a drachm of red precipitate. It is astonishing what a fashion there is in poisons for suicidal purposes. A few years ago people were satisfied with such ordinary domestic poisons as sugar of lead and oxalic acid, but nowadays they are hardly ever met with, and the rage is for the new synthetical compounds such as Phenyl-dimethyl-para- zolone. It is necessary to exercise a certain amount of discretion in these matters. A friend of mine—it was a love affair—tried to commit suicide by taking a corn-solvent. It did him no harm but he had to leave the country. Reconciliation after such an exhibi- tion of incompetence was out of the question. It is a good plan to make yourself ac-
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