[425]. Avis au peuple, tom. ii, § 535, p. 280, 7th edit.
[426]. “On the common syringe, with a flexible tube, as applicable to the removal of opium, and other poisons, from the stomach, by F. Bush.” London Med. and Phys. Journ. for September, 1822.
“New means of extracting opium, &c. from the stomach, by E. Jukes, Esq.” Ibid. for November, 1822.
[427]. See Pharmacologia, vol. 1, p. 234.
[428]. Reports on Water, 1, 80.
[429]. A very high degree of vascularity is often found in the stomach and alimentary canal of those who have been suddenly deprived of life. The reader may consult Dr. Yelloly’s paper in the Medico-chirurgical Transactions, vol. iv, respecting the appearances found in the stomachs of several executed criminals.
A case of poisoning by opium is given in the foreign department of the London Medical Repository, for November 1820; in which two drachms of solid opium had been swallowed, and on dissection a general congestion of blood was found in the internal organs.
[430]. The stomach in this case was observed to be red, but the colour was traced to the tincture of cardamoms, which the deceased had taken.
[431]. Philosophical Transactions, vol. xl, p. 446.
[432]. It was discovered by Scheele, but Gay-Lussac first succeeded in depriving it of a very great quantity of the water with which it was combined, when prepared according to the process of its discoverer. See Annales de Chimie, tom. lxxvii, p. 123.