Poison romance and poison mysteries / by C.J.S. Thompson.

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Poison romance and poison mysteries / by C.J.S. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    medicated bottle of smelling-salts relieved her of all further embarrassment and alarm.” This genial villain waxes eloquent on the science of chemistry in his confession. “ Chemistry 1 ” he exclaims, “ has always had irresistible attractions for me from the enormous, the illimitable power which the knowledge of it confers. Chemists— I assert it emphatically—might sway, if they pleased, the destinies of humanity. Mind, they say, rules the world. But what rules the mind ? The body (follow me closely here) lies at the mercy of the most omnipotent of all potentates —the chemist. Give me—Fosco—chemistry ; and when Shakespeare has conceived Hamlet, and sits down to execute the conception—with a few grains of powder dropped into his daily food, I will reduce his mind, by the action of his body, till his pen pours out the most abject drivel that has ever degraded paper. Under similar circumstances revive me the illustrious
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