Treatise on Poisons / In relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic

by Sir Robert Christison

[125]. Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, xxix. 23.

[126]. Ibid., xxvii. 441. On considering, however, this and other instances of the kind which have since come under my notice, I suspect the case is rendered intelligible by the effect of sleep in suspending or delaying for a time the action of arsenic and other simply irritating poisons. See above—evidence from symptoms beginning soon after a meal, p. 46.—also article Arsenic.

[127]. Howell’s State Trials, xviii.

[128]. Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Journal, xxxv. 298.

[129]. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, xxii. 438.

[130]. For a very striking example of the latter description see Hufeland’s Journal der Praktischen Heilkunde, xii. i. 110. Fourteen people were seized about the same time in a charity workhouse.

[131]. Having mislaid the copy I possessed of this trial, I am unable to give here the reference.

[132]. De Sedibus et Causis Morborum, T. ii. Ep. lix. 7.

[133]. Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, xxxiii. 67.

[134]. Howell’s State Trials, xviii.