Lassaigne, in some experiments with arsenic, incidentally remarked, that 246 grains of solid arsenic given daily for four days had no effect whatever on a horse; but that this result seemed to depend on the difficulty which the stomach must experience in appropriating it among the bulky materials of its food; for 154 grains in solution killed the same animal in six hours [Journ. de Chim. Méd. 1841, 82].—Gianelli of Lucca found that a horse was killed in eight hours by 185 grains of powder of arsenic given in the form of bolus [Annales d’Hyg. Publ. &c. 1842, xxviii. 88].
I might easily extend these extracts. But the result would be merely a mass of contradiction, from which no sound conclusion could be drawn, otherwise the subject would have been discussed in the text.
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[108]. Celebrated Trials, vi. 55.
[109]. Toxicologie Générale, ii. 676.
[110]. Journal des Progrès des Sciences Médicales, 1827, iv. 124. See subsequently the articles Oxalic Acid and Narcotine.
[111]. Journal de Chimie Méd. vii. 131.
[112]. Journal de Physiologie, ii. 1, and iii. 81.
[113]. Ibidem, iii. 84.
[114]. De Sedibus et Causis Morborum, T. ii. Ep. lix. 18.