Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries

of the yellow sulphide, commonly called orpiment. It is found in Greece and Hungary. Its bright yellow colour caused many of the early alche

antity of orpiment to be melted and manipulated, so that the

e light on the methods pursued by Indian poisoners. The poison is usually given in sweetmeats, and generally by a "strange woman," who has been met in the street and who mysteriously disappears. This "strang

here. On parting, by way of thanking him, the stranger presented him with some sweets for distribution among his fri

taken little notice of by the community; and sometimes the poisoner apparently thinks nothing of poisoning a whole family in order to make sure of

own for its detection, and very little advance was made until the early part of last century, when Mars

interred thirty-five years before. An examination of certain of the bones of the father revealed particles of a metallic-looking substance, which was collected and tested, and proved to be mercury. It had thus been preserved in his body for more than the third of a century, the probabilit

Western General Dispensary. The senior surgeon was out when they got there, but two young pupils of his happened to be in, who thought it was a very important case, and they would treat it pretty actively. So they gave him tartar emetic, pumped out the stomach, and pumped oxide of iron into it, and a good many other operations they performed. The poor man was extremely ill, and died in twenty-four hours. The coroner's beadle went to the chemist and said: 'How did you come to sell this man poison?' He replied, 'I sold him no poison; I thought he was off his head when he came.' 'What

manner, in which a would-be suicide was frustrat

ist's shop in the neighbourhood of the docks of a northern seaport, and in a

do you require it?

I find my sweetheart has gone off with Jim, you see, sir, and now it's all up with me. G

an--" interrupt

yself if not,

eing argument was useless, he proceeded to m

shilling's wor

the chemist, adding s

shilling's worth of prussic acid

o the glass, and handed it to the would-be suicide. He paid, s

time, he deliberately laid himself flat on h

s and mouths open in wonderment, and an occasional passer-by stoppe

suddenly raised his head, took a look round, then with one

d been used by them for cosmetic purposes has been put forward to account for having it in their possession. The effect of arsenic on the skin is well known, and that it is frequently used, both internally and externally, to improve the skin, by women, is an undoubted

ch are supposed to improve the complexion and are being ex