[277]. Contre-poisons de l’Arsenic, du sublimé corrosif, &c.
[278]. Proposed by M. Duval, “Dissertation sur la Toxicologie.”
[279]. M. Chausarel. “Observations sur diverses substances Vénéneuses,” p. 47.
[280]. We find in an ancient epigram of Ausonius, that a woman gave to her husband some metallic mercury, with the design of increasing the energy of a certain poison, which she administered to him. But instead of producing this effect, the mercury, on the contrary, entirely re-established the health of the person poisoned. The celebrated Goethe upon asking the Professor Doebereiner of Jena, his opinion upon the above case, received in reply, that the poison must have been corrosive sublimate, since, of all the known poisons, it was the only one whose power was weakened by mercury.
This story induced Orfila to ascertain the truth by experiment, and he has shewn THAT METALLIC MERCURY IS NOT AN ANTIDOTE TO CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE.
[281]. Mr. Hart. “What did you do with the flour and pork?
C. Carter. I made it into four dumplings, two with pork, and two without, and tied the two largest, with pork in them, up in bags.
---- With what did you mix the flour?
---- With milk.
---- When you were making these dumplings, did you observe any thing?